Ethereal Ventures
@etherealvc
A crypto venture firm that aims to uphold three core tenets:
Sovereignty. Freedom. Access.
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We're happy to present our 2026 outlook.
This year is already taking shape, and the opportunity space for founders is even wider than anticipated.
If you're building in any of these areas, we would love to talk to you.
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Proud to see the @etherealvc team recognized here- thoughtful, principled, and deeply aligned with the long-term evolution of the decentralized web. Excited for what we’re building together and for the platform’s next chapter.
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Building @etherealvc with this dream team (@ethereumJoseph @sean_sacha @bees_neeth @obstropolos @christian_stlou @GNSPS) and our community of exceptional founders has been the biggest privilege of my life. We're doubling down on crypto and the evolution of money and value onto blockchains, during the most exciting transition of the internet.
h/t to @jeffjohnroberts for the feature and happy star wars day!
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The world of crypto investing hasn’t been so hot of late, but Ethereal cofounder @_MinTeo says the company has been able to hold its own thanks to its niche expertise and its founder-friendly focus.
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i’ve had the luck to work with @_MinTeo, @bees_neeth, & @Obstropolos at @etherealvc through several years & ventures
many of the world’s most sharp crypto VCs are quite secretive & have quietly driven the industry forward
glad they are getting the visibility they deserve!
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Ethereal Ventures was featured today in Fortune. Read to learn more about our seed and early-stage focus and what’s made us successful under our team and leadership:
We’re excited to back the @utexocom team as they build toward this vision!
Stablecoins are becoming the internet’s dollar.
Bitcoin is one of the most secure settlement networks in existence.
Yet today, they barely intersect.
That’s the opportunity we saw in Utexo. 🧵
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Utexo has raised $7.5M from @tether, @BigBrainVC, and @PortalVentures to bring USDT natively on Bitcoin.
After more than a decade, USDT is finally coming home.
Introducing @TokenFlight_ai ✈️
You pick the token. We find the way.
Tell TokenFlight what you want. It recommends the best source from your balances, handles routing, bridging, and execution - and delivers the outcome.
No bridges to find. No routes to manage. Just an outcome.
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we have raised a $6m seed to keep rebuilding money on modern rails
we don't like traditional banking, or traditional announcement videos
oh and btw, huge feature updates coming soon.
powered by @arbitrum
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Together, Aztec + @NoirLang give you programmable privacy and private state on Ethereum.
Today, we’re launching something the stablecoin industry has needed for a long time.
Introducing - the first global stablecoin orchestration platform with ZERO platform fees.
No monthly fees. No minimum spend requirements. No hidden charges. No friction.
This is a stablecoin reset.
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1/ Today marks an important milestone for Liquid Collective: @galaxyhq has acquired @alluvialfinance, and will now assume the role as the Development Company for the protocol.
🛰️ Total raise: $10M 🛰️
The seed round turns breakthrough research into a reality → live constellation of satellites in orbit.
Leads → @Maven11Capital & @lattice_fund
Participants → @Superscrypt, @etherealvc, @arbitrum, @starship_vc, @nascent, @hash3xyz, @thebbfund, @ambergroup_io, @cmsholdings, @BitscaleCapital, @HashKey_Capital, @Offchain, @bodhi_ventures, @ChorusOne, @imTokenOfficial, @MoonrockCapital, @Wise3Ventures, @encodeclub and others.
Angels → @WarcMeinstein, @JasonYanowitz, @ameensol, @Not3Lau_Capital, @will__price, @joonian, @crypto_han,
@melynx and others.
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Announcing verifiable mindshare markets on Polymarket.
We're excited to make mindshare verfiable with @KaitoAI, unlocking a new class of markets.
Kaito’s AI runs on EigenAI, turning what used to be an opaque model into verifiable compute that anyone can audit before @Polymarket settles payouts.
- AI creates the markets
- EigenCloud makes the AI verifiable
- Polymarket brings it to the world
This is the beginning of Verifiable Markets.
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Nunchi x Ethena
The Internet’s Digital Dollar Meets the Internet’s Yield Layer powered by HIP-3
Today we’re excited to announce a deep collaboration between Nunchi and @ethena that brings three major developments to the Ethena ecosystem:
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BREAKING: Aztec just shipped the Ignition Chain, the first fully decentralized L2 on Ethereum.
This launches the decentralized consensus layer that powers the Aztec Network.
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🎙️ How Global VCs Are Deploying Today
- Min Teo, @etherealvc
- Faisal Al Hammadi, @further
- Allen Ng, @EVGHQ
- Augie Ilag, @CMT_Digital
