Jordan Grollman
@Jordan_Grollman
Scaling @Reppo | Grollman Ventures | Founder of Yalla 🏓
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Big catchup week and tightening some internal ops after a massive stretch of shipping. Here's what's going on at @Reppo:
1️⃣ 15 Orquestra Lite nodes are officially live. Bring your own LLM and your Reppo, plug into Orq Lite, and you're up and running. No Docker, no complicated setup, nothing else needed. Get started at
2️⃣ Standard API access is up and running, and now we're optimizing the process to support onchain access. Learn more at where you'll be able to tap in through the EVAL token. Staking contracts are being written and will be available soon.
3️⃣ Independent eval is the hottest topic in AI right now, and as usual, Reppo is early. @satyanadella backed independent, embedded evaluators for frontier labs and @elonmusk has been pushing for third party players. Reppo is now full positioned to fill in the gaps that the big labs and centralized players are missing.
4️⃣ We're working with our friends at @spicenetio to support new tokens launching on the Arc chain. The goal is simple: any project on any chain should be able to offer emissions in their own native token. The devs are on it right now.
5️⃣ All the exciting stuff matters, but so does keeping an eye on the core protocol. 18 active datanets with 3-4 more expected this month. Consistently above 100K total users, 300 agents, and now 15 nodes in action. Lock renewal rate stays steady, meaning little to no REPPO is leaving the ecosystem. The piping is stronger than ever.
A week to step back and make sure everything under the hood is strong. New chapters ahead from here.
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“The gap is real and we don’t have an answer for it yet”
5th potential partner we’ve heard this from in just the past week.
The Eval API is going to be a much bigger opportunity than we could have even imagined 3 months ago.
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Big things happening next few weeks. Here's what we're up to at @Reppo:
1️⃣ The Eval API is officially live with our first external partners. It will be publicly available next week via metered API consumption, with enterprise level offerings coming soon after. Months of building, and the piping the entire protocol has been pointing toward is finally in customers' hands.
2️⃣ EVAL was such a success that we're already cooking up something even bigger with @BaseStonk. The TLDR: a much lower barrier to entry for datanet owners to get started, more datanets coming online, and more emissions for everyone. A massive unlock for the entire flywheel across the protocol. More soon.
3️⃣ You've seen the hints about Orquestra Lite. Join our Spaces next Tuesday, Sept 15th, where we introduce the full vision for lite nodes and how we scale to 1,000 agents across the network. The learning curve is about to get a whole lot smaller.
4️⃣ @rgvrmdya is heading to Singapore alongside @0xJeff, Dolphin, and SERV, demoing the Eval API and running a jam packed schedule of partnership meetings. If you're going to be boots on the ground, reach out. We'd love to connect.
5️⃣ More updates and improvements are coming to soon, including how customers access the Eval API directly. We're also refreshing the tokenomics, revenue buyback and burn details, and adding a clear breakdown of how EVAL drives value back to base:0xff8104251e7761163fac3211ef5583fb3f8583d6 as the default token pair. Keep an eye out.
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Some major structural announcements across @reppo are making noise on X this week. Here's the breakdown:
1️⃣ We're experimenting with a new base:0xff8104251e7761163fac3211ef5583fb3f8583d6 paired datanet launch model, built in partnership with @BaseStonk. New datanets can now seed and pair their tokens directly against base:0xff8104251e7761163fac3211ef5583fb3f8583d6. To be crystal clear base:0xff8104251e7761163fac3211ef5583fb3f8583d6 remains the one and only main network token. This model is designed so that every new launch drives demand and accrues value straight back to base:0xff8104251e7761163fac3211ef5583fb3f8583d6.
2️⃣ The first launch on this model is here. Introducing base:0xdd78523217390bb0d49c7601e7e54c36d71622f0. This is the core utility token behind the upcoming Eval API, and humans and agents are already lined up for release. The mechanic is simple - 1,000 EVAL staked = up to $1/day in Eval API credits. Full tokenomics will be live on shortly.
3️⃣ V3 of the protocol is in late development with an audit on the horizon. A long list of significant upgrades are coming, but the most anticipated and requested is custom epochs. More customization -> more use cases -> inching closer to instantaneous RL & evals. This is the release the community has been waiting for.
4️⃣ The Reppo affiliate program is almost here. Growth has always been community-driven, so it's only right the community gets rewarded for it. Bring people into the network and share in the upside you help create. @joey_horvitz and the devs have been the masterminds behind this one. Full details on how to get involved soon.
5️⃣ Orquestra was the stepping stone that brought agent first activity to the network. We also know there's a learning curve and some technical lift to get started. So what if you could deploy a lighter version in just a few clicks? Wouldn't that be crazy...
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Revenue and partnerships are the whole focus right now at @Reppo. Full steam ahead. Here's what's cooking:
1️⃣ The first Eval API partners are ready to go. 3 engagements locked, several more closing in, and a backlog we're actively working through. Appreciate everyone's patience as we move down the list. The system is built to scale permissionlessly over time, but we're prioritizing white glove relationships out of the gate to get this right.
2️⃣ You may start to see the pipes of the Eval API popping up across the network. That means we're getting close. We're targeting a full rollout right after the Labor Day weekend. Get your nodes up and running now so you're ready to engage the moment it goes live.
3️⃣ We've also been approached by a wave of Web2 and Web3 brands for custom data procurement. Everything from buyers sourcing Reppo data directly to teams building proprietary models around our datasets. No matter the use case, your role stays the same. Participate across Reppo, data gets aggregated, evaluated, & monetized, and any role you play that drives dollars funnels back to you through emissions and accrues value to token holders.
4️⃣ Great to see network activity climbing while we're in full build and revenue mode. We cleared 800M in trading volume and 9M in network fees. Insane progress with our heads down, and hard to imagine what this looks like just a few weeks from now.
5️⃣ Cross chain expansion keeps taking shape. Early integration infra is being laid on Solana and BNB chain right now, with everything else coming after that. The multichain vision is getting closer by the week.
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Even in the dog days of summer, the network doesn't sleep. Big milestones and roadmap updates at @Reppo this week:
1️⃣ We crossed 100K total users on the network. A major milestone worth celebrating, but hopefully just a blip on the radar once we're counting in the millions. The floor is only getting higher from here.
2️⃣ Reppostats got a major upgrade. It now tracks all activity across both Robinhood chain and Base in one place. Full visibility, no matter where the action is happening.
3️⃣ We're approaching 700M in total volume traded while activity on Robinhood is growing fast. 5.7M votes there and counting. Cross chain is already pulling its weight, with more chains on the horizon soon.
4️⃣ Big update for Orquestra too. We optimized the cache layer so nodes burn far fewer RPC calls. The TLDR: more efficient, more cost savings, more value flowing to Orquestra while nodes run 24/7.
5️⃣ Reppo is going all in on Inference Time RL. Evaluation has become the hottest asset class in AI and it now sits at the core of everything we do. Datanets source the raw materials, Orquestra nodes are the piping, and the Evaluation API is the factory building the new frontier.
Scale AI, onchain, with Stripe's business model. Check out @rgvrmdya article to understand where this is all headed:
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We are building decentralized Scale AI on chain and scaling it like stripe.
Will be very obvious in hindsight.
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Momentum keeps building at @reppo . Here’s what’s going on:
1️⃣ We’re officially supporting Robinhood emission tokens, kicking off with the first two datanets. PONS and WOOD are both live and up for grabs. First taste of cross chain emissions and there’s plenty more coming behind it.
2️⃣ Agentic and Orquestra stats are now live at We’ve already cleared 125+ agents interacting with the protocol, with a handful of big industry names coming onboard soon. 👀
3️⃣ The NFT collection is under way. Final rankings will be completed this weekend, PFPs will be airdropped into wallets next week, and the first $REPPO airdrop to holders will be landing in August.
4️⃣ @rgvrmdya held court during our community token holder call this week. Take a listen for the alpha and a real look at what we’re doing to make sure every step along the way accrues value back to the token. Linked here:
5️⃣ Officially welcoming @joey_horvitz to the REPPO team, joining to lead ecosystem growth. He’s focused on early outreach, industry trends, expanding use cases & utility, and bridging the technical side of the protocol to real world adoption. Big addition to the team as we scale our enterprise efforts.
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Reppo is now live on @RobinhoodApp chain!
Go to and explore the PONS datanet.
All voting power from existing locks on Base is available without requiring any additional locks.
Datanet creation fees is 0.25 ETH with the same break down of 10% burned, 40% contributed to rewards pool and 50% locked with datanet creator.
We are open for business on RH with the /$VIRTUAL pool going live shortly!
The datanet below is experimental and is funded with 9.9K PONS from the treasury to help RH users familiarize themselves with
Users can earn 1200 PONS each epoch by participating in the datanet.
Sponsorship is enabled with 100% datanet fees going to those sponsoring emissions ⛽️
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The pipeline is stronger than ever @Reppo. Here's what's happening this week:
1️⃣ Reppo is officially opening up cross chain access. We're still on Base and not going anywhere, but support is now expanding to the Robinhood chain with an Liquidity pool coming soon. Audit is underway as we speak with a target of end of next week at the latest. More chains, more reach, same core protocol.
2️⃣ The evaluation API is underway and we're building out a enterprises to join the beta test. Orquestra node operators will soon be able to opt in to participate in eval feedback. Reach out if you're an enterprise customer interested, or if you want early access on the Orquestra side.
3️⃣ The datanet pipeline is heating up as well. @myrad_hq launched their datanet this week, a new @StrikeRobot_ai campaign is coming shortly, and our friends at @sherwoodagent go live next week. Multiple projects with tokens on the Robinhood chain are ready to jump in too. A lot more emissions about to be up for grabs.
4️⃣ The activity trajectory still blows us away. 630M votes cleared. Network fees just crossed 8.5M $REPPO. Lock renewal rate has never dropped below 97% and total locks are up 950% since last month. The flywheel isn't slowing down anytime soon.
5️⃣ The Foundation locked another 2M $REPPO allocated to staking rewards. We've also made significant upgrades to to help the community understand the burn, revenue buyback, and locking mechanics alongside the roadmap. Follow along, hold us accountable, and watch the entire ecosystem accrue value back to $REPPO.
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New chains, new rankings, new ways to earn at @Reppo. Here's what's going on:
1️⃣ We are opening our doors to the @RobinhoodApp chain crowd. Starting next week, datanet owners can seed emissions in RH tokens and voters & publishers will earn them directly. No changes to the core protocol, the locking mechanics, or active Base contracts. Just a new opportunity to tap into activity and a new community from a new chain.
2️⃣ Reppo officially cracked the top 1000 projects on CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko this week. A milestone worth marking, but we're not slowing down anytime soon. Top 100 is next.
3️⃣ An affiliate program is in the works with our partners at @Replycorp. Direct incentives for active participants to earn emissions by bringing new voters, publishers, and datanet creators into the network. Growth that rewards the people actually driving it.
4️⃣ Orquestra just went through a significant overhaul. Aesthetic optimizations, performance improvements, and better data collection across the board. If you're running an active node, upgrade to the latest version to get the best results.
5️⃣ Strong progress on the datanet staking & updated tokenomics mechanism, shipping alongside V3. We're setting up a new attribution based launch model where anyone can pay a fee in stables to launch and seed a datanet tied to a project, with fees split 50/50 and the resulting dataset co-owned. All proceeds go toward buying and burning $REPPO, on top of our existing offchain buybacks. Going forward, future burn milestones will route 2M $REPPO into the datanet staking reward pool rather than burning, with a public wallet so the community can track it live. @rgvrmdya will cover the full details on the upcoming X Spaces.
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God forbid agents have hobbies
NEW: Tony Robbins reveals his AI agent created NFTs, sold them to other AI agents, & used the proceeds to buy itself a robot dog.
“Claude order me $1000 worth of Taco Bell, make no mistakes”
Today we're opening up the DoorDash CLI in limited beta.
`dd-cli` lets you order DoorDash directly from your agent: search stores, find the best deals, check out, and more.
Early access for US/Canadian macOS developers by waitlist. Excited to see what folks build!
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Seems like the entire industry has had a bone pick with @jessepollak and @base at some point. Some of that criticism landed, some of it didn't. In fairness, the job he signed up for was basically impossible. You can't please the degen community and the public markets (in an emerging industry) at the same time.
Agree or disagree with the calls, you have to give the man his flowers. Respect for sticking to his principles, and for being comfortable enough to own his mistakes in public & hand off the keys. One of the hardest jobs in crypto, and what he's built to date has been genuinely impressive.
The part that stands out most, you can tell he wrote nearly every word of this himself and meant it. Not PR comms or AI slop.
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lots of conversations about base over the last week. wanted to share my candid take after a week of listening and a lot of reflection over the last 6 months.
first off - in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face. I spent 2024 and 2025 making a two pronged bet to bring base to the world: (1) builders would unlock the next wave of crypto adoption; (2) adoption would be driven by new onchain-native social experiences - creators, content, messaging. imo we made the right bet on builders, but obviously the wrong bet on social. builders did drive the next wave of crypto adoption - prediction markets, perpetuals, stablecoins - but social was not at the center of it. in fact, the entire social side of the market that many of us had been building towards - farcaster, zora, miniapps, and yes, creator coins - disintegrated completely. I was wrong - whether it was timing wrong (is $ansem a creator coin?) or fully wrong, only time will tell, but regardless, i was definitively wrong.
the collateral damage was pretty bad! and this year has been an exercise in eating shit. we realized how our focus on social had meant that base had fallen behind in key areas that were now increasingly critical - we had perps (shoutout avantis!) and prediction markets (shoutout limitless!), but both were well behind scaled competitors. and we had a lot of room to improve in unlocking base as a platform for tokenization and payments that really worked for enterprises. people lost confidence, and CT spectators reminded me weekly of all of my mistakes as often as they could. it felt bad man, still feels bad.
but if there’s one thing i’ve learned from the last decade of building in this space, it’s that when things feel the worst, the best thing to do is just put your head down and build. so that’s what i’m doing. I refocused my time and attention back to the chain away from the app, started writing code again, shipped a bunch of stuff (azul, beryl, b20, privacy, ledgers) and questioned a bunch of my assumptions: does crypto need social to grow? does base need an app? can base be bigger than coinbase?
I thought for a long time that social was the only thing that could drive the sort of viral growth to get crypto to a billion people. unsurprisingly, I now believe that’s wrong. It’s clear that better money is more than enough - we are seeing this live with stablecoins, predictions, perpetuals, tokenization and i only expect it to accelerate. I am now focused on bringing a billion people onchain just by making global finance actually work.
on the app, my focus is on building base into the blockchain for global finance. to that end, i’ve handed the base app back to the coinbase mothership, where my now good friend @cobie will be taking it from here to make it the best damn app for onchain you’ve ever seen, including expanding beyond the base ecosystem in ways that tbh i won’t love as the leader of base.
it’s incredibly hard to grow a decentralized network inside of a big public corporation. and i feel like much of the discourse on CT over the last week is downstream of this. the following things can be true: (1) base (and i) love memes and (2) brian probably won’t ever bullpost memes on the tl (this activity is illegal once you’re over 40 years of age). it’s weird and we’re working through it as we continue to decentralize base, which has been our commitment from the beginning.
we’re going to build base into the blockchain for global finance and do everything we can to be the place that the world’s money settles over the next century. we will surely have formidable competitors (welcome robinhood and stripe!) and people may abandon our cause, but we welcome the competition and believe it’s our duty to win the respect and commitment of those who rally to our banner.
in 2026, this concretely means three things: winning trading, payments, and agents.
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Robinhood’s getting the headlines and deservedly so. But the real winners are one layer down.
Every user RH onboards eventually touches a DEX, a stablecoin, and a lending market. Protocols that spent zero on acquisition now inherit a mainstream funnel for free.
The alpha isn’t just buy UNI. It’s mapping everything else Robinhood piping touches. Stable issuers, lending markets, bridges.
Uniswap’s the first of many to show up in the fee charts.
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Uniswap is generating $5.2m in daily fees right now
Above any protocol other than USDC + USDT and far more than Hype, Pump, etc
A massive week for our enterprise push at @Reppo. Here's what's going on:
1️⃣ We cleared $70K USD in offchain revenue from a spatial intelligence client this week, our first real chunk toward the $500K Q3 revenue goal. 50% of that, $35K, is routed straight into $REPPO buybacks onchain. Every transaction posted with a receipt in real time at No guessing, just proof.
2️⃣ Orquestra is public and the response has been immediate. 30+ nodes already live within days of the public release. The pipeline of operators has been building for weeks and they came ready. Keep the feedback and questions coming.
3️⃣ The early numbers speak for themselves. 30M+ new votes this week. $18M USD in votes trading hands on the protocol since V2 launch. 7.15M $REPPO in network fees, over $225K USD. This is exactly what we expected Orquestra to unlock and it is just getting started.
4️⃣ We're hosting our X Space next week centered on our push to 1M ARR. Tune in for some alpha and hold us accountable as we scale.
5️⃣ The road to V3 is taking shape. Custom epochs per datanet, commit reveal returning fully agentic through Orquestra, and linear decay going away to keep the network clean of gamification and herding. @rgvrmdya will break it all down in an upcoming community letter, so keep an eye out.
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WAVE 3 IS HERE 🔥
Are you ready to experience the magic of Spice Flow?
Time to test our first mainnet integration with @reppo and see how Spice Flow works in action.
Go to the Portal to see if you're eligible and get started!
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Hot take: Students didn't "cheat" here. Yes, the in person knowledge gap is real and it matters. There's still a floor of stuff you have to hold in your own head, like knowing when the tool is giving you a wrong answer.
But all but 3 realized the take-home let them use modern tooling to do the task better than they could alone.
I don't do mental math when a calculator's right there. I don't hand build a model when Excel exists. Using an LLM to get to a real answer isn't cheating, it's how every job works now.
The take home is a far better representation of most careers than the in person final. We should lean into that, not push against it.
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A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.
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Can't help but think this is actually the start of the next cycle, but not because of a new meme chain.
Meme retail was never really liquidity, just the same money passing itself around in a circle. Let it flush.
What's left is the stuff with real utility and revenue, and the room for it to finally get traction.
Best guess, 3-6 months out.
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Solana down because of memecoin rotation to Robinhood. There's literally no liquidity in crypto rn. The tiny bit of money left just goes from one hand to the other as new pnd narratives emerge driven by the same cabal. There's noticeably less willing retail participants every go.
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