I’ve been talking about the connections between the #Netanyahu family and some of the sketchiest characters in the crypto industry (esp. #Tether co-founder #BrockPierce) for years so I was glad to see #UdiLevy, the former head of #Mossad's economic unit #Tzalsel, starting to ask the same questions of #Qatargate.

Among other things Netanyahu's niece is a part owner of #Bancor, a defi lending platform that imploded in 2022 in hilarious fashion.

Re: #AryehDeri, the man who triggered the mass protests in Israel in 2023, Deri was seen at the groundbreaking for #BrixSoftware, major vendor for #CrossRiverBank, the single largest purveyor of covid relief fraud in the US. CRB received massive investment from #MarcAndreessen's #a16z, both before and after a massive “investment” from a Malaysian police chief who somehow had hundreds of millions of dollars to invest after he “investigated” the #1MDB fraud.

more: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/eric-adams-yet-another-crypto-success

#BigTech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
Good news for #Andreessen (#a16z) and accelerationists is they backed Trump and he won. Andreessen is advising. Venture Capitalist David Sacks is #WhiteHouse #AI and #crypto “czar.” Musk and his posse are doing the slashing and burning themselves. Tegulation on AI and everything else they didn’t like is in process of being removed, administration is working on #taxcuts that will benefit them all.
https://www.404media.co/big-tech-backed-trump-for-acceleration-they-got-a-decel-president-instead/

Serial Entrepreneurs Raise $43M to Counter AI Deepfakes, Social Engineering – Source: www.securityweek.com https://ciso2ciso.com/serial-entrepreneurs-raise-43m-to-counter-ai-deepfakes-social-engineering-source-www-securityweek-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #ArtificialIntelligence #Fraud&IdentityTheft #AndreesenHorowitz #CyberSecurityNews #AdaptiveSecurity #securityweekcom #securityweek #deepfakes #OpenAI #a16z

Serial Entrepreneurs Raise $43M to Counter AI Deepfakes, Social Engineering https://www.securityweek.com/serial-entrepreneurs-raise-43m-to-counter-ai-deepfakes-social-engineering/ #ArtificialIntelligence #Fraud&IdentityTheft #AndreesenHorowitz #AdaptiveSecurity #deepfakes #OpenAI #a16z

Serial Entrepreneurs Raise $43M to Counter AI Deepfakes, Social Engineering https://www.securityweek.com/serial-entrepreneurs-raise-43m-to-counter-ai-deepfakes-social-engineering/ #ArtificialIntelligence #Fraud&IdentityTheft #AndreesenHorowitz #AdaptiveSecurity #deepfakes #OpenAI #a16z

another day, another AI scam backed by #MarcAndreessen's #a16z.

> "TechCrunch learned that multiple companies with logos on #11x's website were not actual customers and that at least one is threatening legal action over it.”

When a company lies about something so public and so easily verifiable it begs the question: what else are they lying about?

Andreessen is running #DOGE with #ElonMusk. These are the kind of people who run the US government now.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/a16z-and-benchmark-backed-11x-has-been-claiming-customers-it-doesnt-have/

New paper from #Yale and the #FederalReserve blames the 2023 banking crisis on (you guessed it) #crypto and Nerd Reich #VCs.

> "A clearer commonality between the six banks [that failed], the paper argues, is their exposure to risky depositor bases that other banks shied away from: #crypto firms and [tech] venture capitalists."

* American Banker: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/new-paper-hangs-march-2023-failures-on-business-model-risks
* Paper: https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/working-papers/2025/2025-04

Good clip going through #DOGE bro #MarcAndreessen's absurd lies regarding #debanking and the #CFPB as he attempts to convince #JoeRogan that financial regulation should be abolished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FML74J7HZJs

shocking allegations that #Passes, a social media platform run by Thiel Fellow #LucyGuo and funded by crypto bros, was basically #OnlyFans but (wink wink) for minors...

Financial backers included #JakePaul, #ParisHilton, as well as multiple bros who are attending the White House Crypto Summit on Friday,(e.g. "crypto czar" #DavidSacks's #CraftVentures and Kyle Samani's #MulticoinCapital).

Xitter post by a founder who objected to her own company being acquired by such a deeply amoral organization: https://x.com/jasminericegirl/status/1895947481764286567

(Lucy Guo was also a Forbes 30 Under 30 person... lol)

tfw #SteveBannon keeps making great points:

> "Remember, #Zuckerberg and all these guys came out of graduate schools [and] they didn't have any money. The people that invest - it's all pension fund money. So it's Oregon State Pension Fund, it's #CalPERS, it's Alabama Teachers Fund. All of their money: this is the Greek tragedy part of this. The American working class and middle class have essentially, through their hard work and savings, paid for their own destruction. Your greatest strength was turned against you. Your ability to be a good householder, your ability to actually have something, your ability to pay your taxes on a regular basis and have a little something put away, that's what the venture capitalists and the hedge funds use to ship the jobs overseas and destroy, not only your own economics and your personal life but to make sure that your children and grandchildren essentially live like serfs"
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fpoT7EWVzejpSlBgRHioq

Former chair of the US House Financial Services Committee #PatrickMcHenry just got hired by #MarcAndreessen’s #a16z.

#Broligarchy revolving door so bright you gotta wear shades.

the meeting logs of #DavidSacks and #a16z's "Crypto Task Force" that is I guess now running american financial regulation via the #SEC contain many incredible things, but only a single meeting with anyone trying to advocate for the public interest (#BetterMarkets, who deserve a lot of credit for trying).

* SEC page: https://www.sec.gov/about/crypto-task-force/crypto-task-force-meeting-logs
* archived meeting notes: https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/app?q=%2Btag%3A%22crypto%20task%20force%22

The #SEC has dropped charges against #MarcAndreessen / #a16z backed “decentralized exchange” and favored tool of money launderers the world over, #Uniswap.

Andreessen and the other members of the #NerdReich went for Trump specifically because the Biden administration (via the SEC, #CFTC etc) tried to enforce america’s laws against Uniswap and other crypto companies that a16z and Coinbase Ventures etc. were invested in.

This is regulatory capture on a scale we've never seen before.

* Uniswap tweet: https://x.com/Uniswap/status/1894452298698358989
* more on Uniswap usage by money launderers: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/112972939274517315

#NorthKorea is laundering the ethereum it stole from #Bybit via #ThorChain / #ThorSwap, the crypto company that half imploded a month or so ago due to mismanagement.

They also are using #MarcAndreessen / #a16z's #Uniswap. More on that here: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/112972939274517315

live look at #a16z’s #MarcAndreessen after killing off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (#CFPB), making sure americans will be paying extortionate junk fees and usurious interest rates on payday loans in addition to having zero protection from crypto scams:

now that the $1.4 billion worth of crypto stolen from #Bybit is being laundered through #MarcAndreessen / #a16z’s Uniswap (so North Korea can continue to fund its nuclear weapons program), I figured it would be a good time to repost this explanation of how the last massive pile of stolen crypto was also laundered through Marc Andreessen’s Uniswap.

tl;dr there are no incentives in a16z's business model to dissuade north korea (or whoever) from laundering stolen crypto. in fact quite the opposite - a16z and Marc Andreessen massively profits from the popularity of its money laundering service.

"investing" in crypto is literally investing in crime.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers

brutal but entirely accurate review of Balaji's¹ book "The Network State" that is regarded as something of a blueprint for a future government by the #broligarchs currently running the country.

¹ Balaji is a crypto con artist who has also been a partner at Marc Andreessen's #a16z as well as CTO of #Coinbase.

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-tech-barons-have-a-blueprint

#GenerativeAI Infrastructure Evolution: #fal.ai's $49M Series B

Funding reaches $72M total with #NotableCapital & #a16z co-leading Series B
Powers 100M+ daily inferences with 99.99% uptime, serving enterprise #AI needs

a bro from the largest american crypto VC firm #a16z is going to be running the #CFTC which in turn will be the agency "regulating" crypto now that the #SEC (also now run by crypto bros) has decided cryptocurrency is not a "security" (like a share of stock or a bond) but instead a "commodity" (like corn or pork bellies). which makes sense, as long as you don't think about it.

fun fact: the CFTC was the agency that regulated (and still regulates) financial derivatives and is more or less directly responsible for 2008's Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/02/11/trump-taps-former-cftc-commissioner-a16z-policy-head-brian-quintenz-for-cftc-head