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Alexander Lin
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Alexander Lin
@linfluence
cofounder @reforge_vc
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reforge.vc
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Mar 25
    i'm actively deploying significant amounts of capital into the esoteric corners of finance and markets if you're building in consensus verticals like yield products or prediction markets or "xyz but with stablecoins" with only marginal improvements, im out
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Jan 17, 2025
    This is Shaw. In a fair critique of Eliza—acknowledging strengths, areas of improvement, and clarifying 100% coverage of the GitHub would be challenging—I receive these messages 3 days later. I'm open to criticism of our work, but switching to personal attacks is where I draw
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Oct 31, 2022
    The CESC Zero-Knowledge Proof Workshop was held yesterday at UC Berkeley and I couldn't be more bullish on the future of ZKPs and their deployment in blockchains and web3. If you didn't attend or watch the live stream, I got you! Here is absolutely everything you need to know 🧵
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Sep 11, 2024
    VCs are industry architects, serving as one of the earliest supporters of bold ideas and radically idiosyncratic founders. But in crypto, we've made a mess. I'm excited to launch @reforge_vc alongside @carlhua to be the wrecking ball and the new foundation.
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Jun 4, 2025
    pump annualized revs >$500mn, 4bn fdv ethena annualized revs ~$20mn, $5bn fdv clownshow
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Jan 13, 2025
    At Reforge, we spend a significant amount of time on GitHub: we’re either perusing repositories as part of investment diligence for a project, using it as a tool to source founders and ideas, or just trying to learn more how a particular project or idea is being implemented.
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Feb 17, 2023
    maybe the reason crypto conferences are such a huge deal compared to tradtech is because we haven't crossed the chasm for more mainstream adoption and the only product market fit beyond speculation is shared in a perpetual capital flow loop between industry participants and no
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Oct 7, 2022
    Loved giving a talk about Move and introducing @AptosLabs to developers and investors at the @aves_lair Aptos Hackathon in NYC! If you’re building in a Move ecosystem, let’s jam.
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Sep 27, 2021
    Replying to @lolitataub
    🙋‍♂️I'm a fund manager at an early-stage venture fund affiliated with Cornell (brventurefund.com) We're an evergreen fund and don't have LPs so our investment thesis is a bit more flex, particularly when it comes to pre-rev startups. Happy to connect with the founder!
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Jul 2, 2024
    another crypto conference where projects spend vc money to "business develop" and build rapport with the same projects they met with last conference over bfast/lunch/dinner/happy hour in order to maintain a healthy pipeline of logos for use in their X/discord marketing campaigns
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Apr 12, 2024
    My first meeting with the Berachain team was in an Uber from the Denver airport to my hotel for EthDenver 2022. A standard 45 minute introductory call turned into an 1hr+ long sesh vibing with the Beras talking about everything from my days as a web2 product manager to
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    Berachain Foundation 🐻⛓
    @berachain
    Apr 12, 2024
    We're thrilled to announce our $100M Series B round, co-led by @BHDigitalAssets and @hiFramework
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Apr 20, 2023
    over a year ago, we invested in a team of anons with pfps of bears smoking weed looking to solve some of defi's hardest problems today, they're a team of anons with pfps of bears smoking weed equipped with $42m bags building one of the best ecosystems this industry will ever see
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    Berachain Foundation 🐻⛓
    @berachain
    Apr 20, 2023
    We're excited to announce our $42.0M fundraise from leading funds and angels including @polychaincap @hack_vc @daofive @tribecap @citizenxcrypto @shimacapital @robotventures @zmanian @musalbas and many others to build the deepest pools of liquidity in DeFi.
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Jan 21, 2025
    2.6k stars 234 forks with just 23 contributors imagine when contributors 10x's rig 100x's arc and devs building with rig 1000x's arcellerate
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    Tachi
    @0thTachi
    Jan 21, 2025
    /arc_angels we’ve released a contribution guide for devs eager to contribute to the rig library. the guide provides details on: - model provider integrations - vector store integrations - bug hunting & fixes - docs improvements find the guide here: docs.rig.rs/docs/7_how-to-…
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    Alexander Lin
    @linfluence
    Jul 29, 2025
    Replying to @ExaltedFoks
    there are bars in chelsea?
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