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cofounder @0xPredicate

Brooklyn
Joined August 2016
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Aethos is now Predicate
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One of the most important things you can do as a founder is find the best partners to work with, through the ups and downs. It’s why we were so excited to work with @yuan_han_li at @bcap (even after they passed in our prior round). Could not have a better team backing us
yesterday i shared why we led @0xPredicate's $8m Series A. i also sat down with @pumpernikhil and @jessesawa to talk about what they’re building, how we ended up working together, including a surprisingly generous review of our pass email. three highlights that stood out to me from our conversation:
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Loving getting the virality on this! Thanks everyone who helped reach! 💚 nitter.cf/i/trending/21150943335…

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Best team, best investors, best customers
We are thrilled to announce our $8M Series A to connect regulated markets to onchain finance. Predicate enables digital assets to reach every market compliantly. We do this by embedding compliance controls directly into digital assets to block high-risk and sanctioned activity at every transaction. To date, Predicate has: - Screened $1B+ in transaction volume - Evaluated 6M+ transactions against custom compliance policies - Blocked 100K+ non-compliant transactions The round was led by @bcap with participation from @Paxos, @1kxnetwork and @tribecap.
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Believe it or not, compliance keeps us up at night.
We are thrilled to announce our $8M Series A to connect regulated markets to onchain finance. Predicate enables digital assets to reach every market compliantly. We do this by embedding compliance controls directly into digital assets to block high-risk and sanctioned activity at every transaction. To date, Predicate has: - Screened $1B+ in transaction volume - Evaluated 6M+ transactions against custom compliance policies - Blocked 100K+ non-compliant transactions The round was led by @bcap with participation from @Paxos, @1kxnetwork and @tribecap.
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We are thrilled to announce our $8M Series A to connect regulated markets to onchain finance. Predicate enables digital assets to reach every market compliantly. We do this by embedding compliance controls directly into digital assets to block high-risk and sanctioned activity at every transaction. To date, Predicate has: - Screened $1B+ in transaction volume - Evaluated 6M+ transactions against custom compliance policies - Blocked 100K+ non-compliant transactions The round was led by @bcap with participation from @Paxos, @1kxnetwork and @tribecap.
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Jesse retweeted
Incredibly excited for this next phase of Predicate's growth. Compliance is becoming core infrastructure for onchain finance, and we're just getting started. Grateful to everyone who's supported us along the way.
We are thrilled to announce our $8M Series A to connect regulated markets to onchain finance. Predicate enables digital assets to reach every market compliantly. We do this by embedding compliance controls directly into digital assets to block high-risk and sanctioned activity at every transaction. To date, Predicate has: - Screened $1B+ in transaction volume - Evaluated 6M+ transactions against custom compliance policies - Blocked 100K+ non-compliant transactions The round was led by @bcap with participation from @Paxos, @1kxnetwork and @tribecap.
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Proud of this team! Three years of building compliance that runs in real time, right inside the transaction, and we're just getting started. Thank you @bcap, @Paxos, @1kxnetwork and @tribecap for backing us. Back to shipping now! 😄
We are thrilled to announce our $8M Series A to connect regulated markets to onchain finance. Predicate enables digital assets to reach every market compliantly. We do this by embedding compliance controls directly into digital assets to block high-risk and sanctioned activity at every transaction. To date, Predicate has: - Screened $1B+ in transaction volume - Evaluated 6M+ transactions against custom compliance policies - Blocked 100K+ non-compliant transactions The round was led by @bcap with participation from @Paxos, @1kxnetwork and @tribecap.
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Finally, we worked for 4 years on it. A lot of sweat and tears. Miden is a like blockchains should be, - client-side proving - privacy - post-quantum secure - Turing-complete - flexible compliance and disclosure modes ... and we have an awesome wallet
Miden is now live on partner mainnet
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We’re proud to support @0xMiden’s Partner Mainnet by providing built-in asset compliance from this day onward. USDCx on Miden will be one of the first fully private and compliant stablecoins at institutional scale. We’ll share more about this collaboration in due time! Congrats, @0xMiden!
Miden is now live on partner mainnet
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Looking forward to providing built-in compliance to @0xMiden's Partner Mainnet, from Day 1 onwards!
Partner Mainnet in 7 days. October 26, 2026.
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Filing a report after an exploit doesn't stop illicit crime. In @AmerBanker, @pumpernikhil argues banks should get credit for blocking suspicious transactions before money moves, not for just filing reports after the fact. Read the op-ed here: americanbanker.com/opinion/a…
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Huge congrats to the Paxos Labs team!
Gold lending has been quoted every working day for fifty years, yet is still closed to almost everyone who owns the asset. Institutional minimums, bullion bank relationships, settlement infrastructure. PAXGy changes that. Live today on @okx and onchain on @Uniswap, @XLayerOfficial, @0xProject, @ether_fi, powered by @chainlink CCIP. Gold that grows. paxgy.com/x
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things we have - product - revenue - customers - great team things we don't have - marketing lead
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The full conversation is up! @pumpernikhil and @khushii_w talk to @iamtanya338 about compliance infra, state of the industry, and the Predicate thesis.
I asked two compliance experts to rule on: • A politician launching a memecoin • A whale doing KYC from a yacht in international waters • A billion dollar protocol running support only through telegram Only one got blocked. Episode 15 of off the record with @pumpernikhil and @khushii_w from @0xPredicate 04:13 - head of vibes, hyrox and the fittest team in crypto 09:58 - the predicate thesis: blockchains as the global settlement layer 12:24 - "compliance is anti-crypto" and why that's wrong 15:45 - singapore vs the US vs dubai 17:16 - what everyone gets wrong about institutions coming 21:41 - who's scrambling for policy infra now 22:57 - would you let an AI agent touch your money 31:14 - compliance court is in session 37:16 - the 2026 thesis: stablecoins, neobanks, emerging markets
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Sunset skies afire over #NYC tonight following the storm. #NewYork #NewYorkCity #sunset
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Introducing Dry Run, a podcast for new ideas in fintech. There's an extraordinary amount of innovation happening right now. We sit down with builders and thinkers close to the work, making sense of what's changing and where things are headed. A space to take new ideas for a spin, explore them, and challenge them out loud. We're excited to share these conversations with you. With love, Eshita and Khushi
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Jesse retweeted
It's half cash, half stock, and it's on our website
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Excited to finally announce that with the recent acquisition, @nucleusearn is now Paxos Labs! Previously... Looking back, crypto in the beginning was purely a theoretical exercise—decentralized governance delivering economic freedom to the unbanked. Sounded too good to be true. But with every step in the industry, it only became more material. At Terraform Labs, I got to see global DeFi adoption firsthand. At Blockchain Capital, I met the builders pushing the frontiers of ZK and DeFi research. It was clear that crypto combined the best of finance and tech and attracted the brightest minds to learn from. And with the simple belief that all of finance is inevitably coming onchain. @ChundaMcCain and I doubled down and created Molecular Labs. At @nucleusearn, we focused on building structured products that offer differentiated yield for crypto investors of varying risk profiles. The mandate was to deliver frontier DeFi integrations from the early days of Ethereum to cutting edge innovations on Hyperliquid. This was fun. Building in the DeFi trenches was what we signed up for. But it was clear that there was a natural ceiling to the capital sloshing around the markets. The same whales, LPs, and mercenary capital rotating from one token deal to the next. We were looking for ways to grow the entire pie. While many screamed from the rooftops about “onboarding the masses”, it was much easier said than done. The Next Step: When we met the Paxos team, we rallied around the idea that DeFi must scale via global distribution channels. Every business that touches money is now going on this journey. Stablecoins first, DeFi is next. This journey begins wherever users bank—from crypto native dapps, fintechs, neobanks, to large consumer banks that will inevitably shift. Combining Paxos’s $120B+ track record in trusted tokenization infrastructure and the Nucleus team’s DeFi expertise, we are uniquely equipped to tackle this problem of delivering the E2E onchain transformation for global enterprises. We are now starting that journey as Paxos Labs. The mission is to scale access to DeFi, and we’re squarely focused on mass adoption. If you are interested in what we are doing, please reach out! And a huge shoutout to the team that makes it happen. @0xDuckworth @dashanmccain @0x_carson @jpickett713 @mroddy5280 @0xTrojanhorse @anjaliegeorge and all others who are too busy building to be posting!
We had a rollout plan. The market had other ideas. Sometimes opportunities show up when least expected, but we pulled out the stops, executed fast, and showed what we can bring to the table. But we realized that we didn’t get the chance to introduce ourselves. Paxos Labs is the enterprise-grade infrastructure platform powering the next era of onchain finance. Financial platforms across the world are constrained by legacy financial rails systems that are costly, slow, and limited in scope. As these platforms look to upgrade their underlying infrastructure, they can turn to Paxos Labs to guide them in their blockchain journey, from stablecoins to full onchain market access. Backed by @Paxos's $120B+ track record in tokenization and regulatory expertise and trusted by enterprises like PayPal, Venmo, Mastercard, Nubank, Interactive Brokers, and more we extend proven infrastructure into a full product suite that unlocks utility, yield, and liquidity for platforms and their users. With Paxos Labs, enterprises can take the step beyond stablecoin issuance and acceptance to deliver full onchain financial experiences for their users from branded stablecoin creation, to servicing yield on stablecoins, integrating compliant money markets, and more. Our mission for enterprises is to enable them to own more of their economics, facilitate growth through innovation, and future-proof their business by delivering safe and utility-driven onchain experiences to their end-users. Building the rails you can rely on, and the products that make them matter. Paxos Labs is where the future of onchain finance is built, customized, and scaled. Start your onchain journey with Paxos Labs.
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Jesse retweeted
Happy to share more formally what we’ve been rolling out at @paxoslabs ! I believe those who build easy to use and accessible financial applications for end users are building one of the most important businesses out there that empowers everyday consumers around the globe. Our goal is to help you create a richer set of financial opportunities for your end users while having your platform earn at each step. What it does: Earn—Generate yield on idle on-platform balances. Borrow—Provide credit and access to capital seamlessly. Mint—Issue your company’s fully configurable digital dollar. Savings rates, credit, and faster, cheaper settlement are the three fundamental building blocks for building any financial applications. The Amplify Stack enables any number of usecases from borrowing dollars on crypto to kickstarting SMB credit programs to help your customers get their businesses off the ground. The common thread—turn dollars into engaging products that makes customers love your platform. If you are building the next generation of crypto and fintech app, reach out to see what Paxos Labs can do for you!
Every major fintech company, neobank, and exchange has begun to support crypto or has already done so. The harder question every product team is now facing is: What now?
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Every major fintech company, neobank, and exchange has begun to support crypto or has already done so. The harder question every product team is now facing is: What now?
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