building companies @newcampushq writing about business, money & being a dad usually home by bath time
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Will Fan🕊 retweeted
At @ycombinator, we're excited to fund more crypto startups solving financial needs including AI capital raising, stablecoins, trading, and agents.
Here's our latest crypto request for startups. Our next application deadline is Monday.
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
BIG STEP FOR STABLECOIN ADOPTION IN THE US
🇺🇸 The US banking regulator has finalized its stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act, effective Jan 18, 2027.
This will help more banks and financial institutions issue stablecoins under clear rules.
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
99.3% of the people telling you that “distribution is the only moat remaining” have never distributed anything except that opinion.
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Be profitable and run your company with maximal agentic loops
You don’t need to sell more of your co anymore
$10M profit per year reinvested is like an annual Series A no dilution
The best startups do this now. No whinging about the Series A/B crunch.
You don’t need saving.
Series A and Series B are the hardest rounds for founders today.
Founders launch a vertical AI SaaS company. They reach $1M-$3M ARR in 2 years or $5M-$10M in 3-4 years.
They go out to market with their 1x-3x growth. Almost no interest from investors.
If it's not the right category or a deep, long-term conviction bet, most investors stay away.
Founders are stuck with large pref stacks and a market that doesn't value this growth. They are neither sustainable (at their current burn) nor venture-fundable (without growth).
The exit options (if available) don't leave much for the team. In most cases, founders are required to join the acquiring company (but they aren't interested).
I talk to many founders who have been misadvised, and they keep grinding without making progress.
The Series A or B that didn't happen won't magically happen in 1 year with a little more progress. If the market moves much faster than your company progresses, you will always be behind. If you are told today to hit some metrics and come back, the market will have already moved by the time you return.
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
Tokenizing a US $4.75 trillion education industry, especially across emerging markets, is a vision that is becoming more achievable with the rapid evolution of technology.
Decentralized educational protocol @opencampus_xyz is building a brighter future for students that covers learner AI agents built with @hellominds_, student loans that are funded and repaid on-chain, and seamless digital credentials that you can carry effortlessly with you everywhere you go.
More to come! 📚
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
Significant developments with .@opencampus_xyz
• $EDU buybacks funded by education revenue, verifiable onchain. TinyTap ($30M+ revenue)
• First fully onchain student loan with 6,600+ students, repaid with yield
• 50M academic on EDU
• AI learner agents with @hellominds_ – at Central Region, Singapore
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On-chain student lending works, and there is now a full cycle to prove it
$1M was deployed as student loans and repaid by borrowers, with yield returned to everyone who put up the capital.
Nobody had taken student lending all the way through on-chain before.
We are happy about this one, most of all because of who it reached.
6,600 students across 118 schools and universities in the Philippines and Indonesia, where just over half had never borrowed formally in their lives and 93% came from lower-income households, so there was no credit history for a bank to score.
An independent study by 60 Decibels went back and asked them how it went:
- 9 in 10 said their quality of life improved
- over 90% said they could take their education further
- 97% said they had no good alternative anywhere else
With the cycle closed, the same capital can go straight back out to the next group of students, and the people who funded it have every reason to do it again.
A student in Manila got funded, someone on the other side of the world put up the capital, and both could watch it happen in real time.
Student lending now has a completed on-chain track record rather than a projection, which is what makes the next one easier to fund and faster for the students waiting on it.
Funded by Open Campus with @animocabrands and NewCampus, deployed through ErudiFi on @pencilfinance_ ↴
animocabrands.com/announceme…
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7 @base teams 🤝 10+ investment firms
Sometimes, the next stage of growth takes more than just building. It takes capital.
That’s why we hosted our second Investors-Builders Night, bringing our network of investors together with the @base x @newcampus Circuit Accelerator residents.
Beyond building, we’re here to help our founders scale.
Check out some based moments from the night 👇
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Sneak peek 👀
To wrap up the @base x @newcampushq Circuit Accelerator in Singapore, @Nibel_eth sat down with each project for a podcast to hear what they’ve been building and where they’re headed next.
First up: @gitlawb with @kevincodex
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Got my first piece of merch from @base and definitely not the last. 😂💙
Celebrating our Circuit Accelerator graduation tonight!! Time really does fly when you’re having fun. 🥹
Spending the evening with the @baseapac team, Singapore’s VC ecosystem, my fellow founders, and our incredible educators from @newcampushq.
What a month for @KnightIntelco
But the credits aren’t rolling yet. 🇸🇬♞
We’re saving the banger for the finale. 🫡
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
huge thanks to @baseapac + @newcampushq for bringing the builders together
Investors 🤝 @base builders
To help our builders scale, we brought investors together with our @base x @newcampushq Circuit Accelerator residents in Singapore for a night of drinks, conversations, and connections.
We also invited Indranil Sarkar from @OpenAI and Ajay Taunk from @AWSstartups for a panel on what it takes to build and scale ambitious startups.
Meet the 7 teams building with us:
@basemateagent @KnightIntelco @gigrewards @yieldrdotorg @spectrum_money @gitlawb @OmenX_Official
Watch how the night turned out👇
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
The @base x @newcampushq Circuit Residents just got a new space to lock in and build together in Singapore.
Any guesses on what they’re cooking? 👀
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
Last night was...beautiful.
We hosted a private investor night for our @newcampushq x @base Circuit residents in Singapore 🇸🇬
Supporting our @base builders goes beyond 1:1 mentorship. It means opening doors, building relationships, and connecting them with the right people to help them scale.
Special thanks to our guests from @OpenAI and @awscloud for sharing their insights on building, investing, and the future of startups.
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
Founder & investor dinner with @baseapac × @newcampushq. 🍷
Looking forward to meeting friends from @AWS , @OpenAI, and Singapore’s venture ecosystem. Always the best conversations happen around the table. 🤍
📍 Mandala Club, Singapore – at Singapore
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
At @CoinbaseSG office with fellow based builders. 🟦
It feels fresh to meet builders outside this app. Thanks @newcampushq & @baseapac.
Pic by @donofbase, need one with him too. 😆
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
The @base x @newcampushq Circuit accelerator is underway and we've some exciting teams for this one:
1. @basemateagent - an onchain financial assistant mangaging yield, trades, sends and saves, all through iMessage
2. @spectrum_money - a full stack DeFi app letting users trade, access yields, lending / borrowing and long-tail primitives in one clean UI
3. @gigrewards - a telco subscriber base turned into a SIM-verified gig workforce to produce high-quality AI training data for brands and AI labs.
4. @gitlawb - the open, onchain software stack where humans and AI agents build, collaborate, transact and own their work
5. @yieldrdotorg - the agent stack for onchain funds allowing traders to launch agentic onchain strategies and vaults
6. @OmenX_Official - a leveraged prediction market to trade event outcomes
7. @KnightIntelco - the identity, trust and and intelligence layer for cross-border finance
@Nibel_eth and @donofbase have been cooking with this one - go show some love to these growing teams!
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
Week 2 of the @base x @newcampushq Circuit Accelerator is in full swing.
Back-to-back office hours, investor night, and plenty of building.
30 days. 7 teams. One mission: build.
@KnightIntelco @yieldrdotorg @gigrewards @basemateagent @OmenX_Official @spectrum_money @gitlawb
Will Fan🕊 retweeted
7 teams. 30 days. 1 mission.
The Circuit Accelerator Cohort 1 by @newcampushq, supported by @baseapac, has officially begun.
Builders joining this cohort:
@gitlawb
@OmenX_Official
@gigrewards
@basemateagent
@spectrum_money
@knightintelco
@yieldrdotorg
Founders from across Southeast Asia have flown into Singapore to lock in for the next 30 days.
From 1:1 mentorship and coworking sessions with the @baseapac team to investor dinners and founder meetups, this residency is designed to help exceptional teams build faster.
The next breakout startup might just emerge from this cohort.
Stay tuned 👀
