Streams kept by the Monstream team. Follow them as they are, or fork one and make it yours.
Seed to Series B rounds led by a16z, Sequoia, Benchmark, Founders Fund, Accel, Index, Lightspeed, Greylock, Kleiner, General Catalyst or Thrive — who raised, how much, and what they build.
Everything around FHERMA, the FHE challenge platform by Fair Math: new challenges and prize pools, results and winners, solution write-ups, Polycircuit and OpenFHE-rs releases, partnerships and mentions.
New Y Combinator companies as they launch: what they build, for whom, and the founders behind them.
Roles building cryptography and privacy technology: applied cryptographers, ZK and FHE engineers, security engineers working on protocols.
Every new release of the homomorphic encryption libraries, compilers and SDKs — TFHE-rs, Concrete, fhEVM, OpenFHE, SEAL, HEIR, Lattigo, Poulpy, CryptoLab HEaaN and enVector, Desilo, IBM HElayers, Apple Swift HE, TenSEAL and GPU libraries — with what changed.
Everything around OpenFHE: releases, notable GitHub issues and pull requests, papers and benchmarks that use it, applications built on it, talks, workshops and events, and what its maintainers and community are working on.
Changes in how ETH is staked: validator queues, staking protocols, restaking, distributed validators and the rules that affect stakers.
Opportunities for artists: open calls, grants, prizes and residencies, with deadlines — so you hear about them while you can still apply.
What sold, for how much: notable lots and new artist records at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips and Bonhams.
Senior Rust roles at companies that run Rust in production — infrastructure, networking, crypto and developer tools.
Machine learning, research and inference engineering roles at AI labs and AI-heavy companies that pay $300,000 a year or more.
New C++ engineering roles that pay $300,000 a year or more — trading firms, AI labs and infrastructure teams — straight from their job boards.
Startups building privacy-enhancing technology raising money: FHE, zero-knowledge, MPC, confidential computing and private AI.
Real vulnerabilities in cryptographic code and protocols — libraries, wallets, TLS, ZK circuits — with the affected versions and fixes.
Battery chemistry results with numbers: energy density, cycle life and cost — sodium-ion, solid-state and new cathodes.
Fintech startups raising money — seed to growth rounds, with the amount, the investors and what the company builds.
Humanoid and general-purpose robot companies: launches, funding rounds and first real deployments.
New open-source frameworks and tools for building LLM agents, as they appear on GitHub and Hugging Face.
New open-weights language and multimodal models from the major labs, as they land on Hugging Face — with size, license and reported results.
New versions of the execution and consensus clients — Geth, Nethermind, Besu, Erigon, Reth, Lighthouse, Prysm, Teku, Nimbus and Lodestar — with what node operators must do.
New Ethereum Improvement Proposals as they are posted for discussion, with what each one would change and who proposed it.
Rules, enforcement and court decisions that touch DeFi and stablecoins: the SEC and CFTC, US stablecoin law, MiCA in the EU and actions against protocols.
Real-world assets coming onchain: tokenized Treasury funds, credit and equities from BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Ondo and others — launches, sizes and integrations into DeFi.
Proposals that change how major protocols work — fees, risk parameters, treasury spending and upgrades — when they go to a vote, with what is at stake.
Every confirmed exploit of a DeFi protocol or bridge as it is reported: what was hit, how much was lost and how it happened.
Bills passed by Congress and signed into law, with what each one does.
Each Supreme Court opinion and major order as it is released, with what the Court decided and the vote.
Every NBA trade, signing, extension and buyout as it is reported — with the terms.
Done deals only: transfers and contract extensions that clubs have announced, with the fee where it is reported — no rumours.
Digital, generative and AI art: new works and artists, exhibitions, tools, and the market for art made with code.
Fully remote senior and staff engineering roles from companies that state their pay.
Software and quant developer roles at the high-frequency and prop trading firms: Jane Street, Jump, Optiver, DRW, IMC, Tower and Virtu.
Protocols, apps and chains going live: mainnet launches, first products and notable upgrades from young teams.
Web3 startups raising money — pre-seed to Series B — with the amount, the lead investors and what they are building.