I'm proud to support @bitcoinpolicy’s open letter urging frontier AI labs to open a clear pathway for qualified open-source defenders. AI could become the most powerful defensive technology in history. Attackers already are exploiting it. Defenders cannot be left behind. We believe Bitcoin is critical public financial infrastructure. Those securing it should have trusted access to the most powerful AI models available.

I always learn a ton from our Bitcoin Brainstorms. If agentic commerce is on the threshold of transforming the shopping experience, favoring the long tail, as @GrousARK and @varshikaARK have concluded, this episode is timely. Thank you, @rodroudi and @bitcoinpark_ for hosting!

RIP John Crowley For my money he was among the five best living writers of fantasy up until his death. Imploring people to pick up 'Little, Big' and 'The Solitudes' if they haven't already, there is not one comparable work to these. He was a sorcerer and we're going to miss him.

@ARKInvest is proud to join the Transparency Alliance, backing the Token Transparency Framework (TTF). For too long, investors have had to piece together diligence on tokens from disparate, often incomplete sources. Even as AI has improved this process, critical details are still missed or are not publicly available. The TTF solves this by giving investors a standardized framework for disclosure, straight from the teams themselves. We believe tokens can't mature without this level of transparency, and we're glad to help make it the industry benchmark. Thank you to @Blockworks for leading the charge.

ARK Invest is a proud member of the Bitcoin Security Consortium @BTCconsortium! Together with @Anchorage @BlackRock @blocks @Blockstream @coinbase @DigitalAssets @galaxyhq and @Strategy, we believe disruptive innovation demands proactive security and a well-informed investor base. As the industry begins preparing bitcoin for a post-quantum future, we believe the core goals of this initiative carry outsized impact: funding bitcoin developers and keeping the public informed on the state of quantum computing and how the community is working to secure the network's long-term future.

Hello, World! I’m Austin, and I’m excited to be joining the Consumer team at @ARKInvest, working alongside @GrousARK and @varshikaARK. I’ll be covering AdTech, Social Media, Streaming, and Gaming. Follow along as we explore the technologies reshaping the consumer internet.

Today we're announcing the Bitcoin Security Consortium @BTCconsortium: a group of leading financial institutions and Bitcoin companies supporting the long-term security of the Bitcoin network. Members have pledged $15 million toward this work over the next three years.

Today nine institutions including BlackRock, Fidelity, Coinbase, and Strategy announced the Bitcoin Security Consortium (@BTCconsortium), pledging $15M toward Bitcoin security work over the next three years. I've agreed to help coordinate the group's work as a volunteer. I said yes because supporting Bitcoin's developers and helping people understand their work are the two things I've spent my time in Bitcoin on, through Brink and Optech. This group wants to do both: fund the people already securing Bitcoin, and bring accurate information about that work to audiences it doesn't currently reach. The group's first focus is quantum computing, a potential long-term threat that's reasonable to prepare for. Its true that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer would break Bitcoin's current signatures. What's usually wrong are the loudest "imminent doom" voices. The development community is already working on this. These institutions want to help. I know exactly how "nine giant institutions form a group to 'help' Bitcoin" sounds, I had the same reaction. So before accepting, I spoke one-on-one with each company about their values and priorities, to judge whether this would actually be a productive initiative for Bitcoin. Two things mattered most to me, and I found the members already aligned on both: - No pooled funding. Each member company funds who they choose, independently. The Consortium doesn't hold funds or pick recipients. - No Consortium positions on protocol changes. Members speak for themselves. I'm a volunteer, receiving no compensation from the Consortium. I continue to run Brink, independent of any Consortium member. I've committed to a year in this role, maybe I'd do two, but ultimately I see it as a seat that should rotate to other participants over time. My commitment is to Bitcoin, and that doesn't change. My hope is that this effort results in more funding reaching more developers/researchers, on their own terms, and a measured counterweight to quantum panic, in both directions (no doomerism, but also no dismissal). Quantum is the first focus, but if this group works the way I think it can, there's room to support other security efforts down the road too. More about the Consortium: I expect plenty of skepticism. Ask me anything.