#ICLR2026# is this week! Join Subquadratic during the conference to chat about research, the future of the industry, and the underlying assumptions of AI that need to be challenged. Drinks on us 🍻

Saturn is proud to announce our $2M seed round led by @TheSpartanGroup, with participation from @Anchorage, Susquehanna Crypto, and more. Saturn is building the application layer on Bitcoin - powered by $STRC. A thread on why it matters.

Projects Fundraising on RootData (May 3 - May 10) Last week, 13 blockchain companies/projects received funding. 💎 @reapglobal — Web3 payment infrastructure, was acquired by @krakenfx in $600M. 💎 @HoudiniSwap — Privacy cross-chain protocol, was acquired by @solstrategies in $18M. 💎 @opentrade_io — DeFi for the real world, raised $17M in strategic round by @mercuryfund, NotionCapital, @a16zcrypto & others. 💎 @onrefinance — On-chain reinsurance company, raised $5M in Series A by @FWDind & @Rockaway_X. 💎 @saturn_credit — Stablecoin yield protocol, raised $2M in seed round by @TheSpartanGroup, @Anchorage, Susquehanna Crypto & others.

Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence. It is the first model built on a fully sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture (SSA), And the first frontier model with a 12 million token context window which is: - 52x faster than FlashAttention at 1MM tokens - Less than 5% the cost of Opus Transformer-based LLMs waste compute by processing every possible relationship between words (standard attention). Only a small fraction actually matter. @subquadratic finds and focuses only on the ones that do. That's nearly 1,000x less compute and a new way for LLMs to scale.