RBV + Denarii Labs Weekly Newsletter 🧔📖 Week of 04/04/25

Open Deals, Portfolio Updates, Crypto News, & More

Author

Austin Ritter
April 04, 2025

Welcome to the latest edition of the Red Beard Ventures newsletter, where we dive into exciting updates and insights from all over blockchain, frontier tech, and the angel investing landscape.

As a reminder, Red Beard Ventures has a syndicate, fund, and a tokenomics accelerator:

  • The Red Beard Ventures Syndicate is stage agnostic and invests in Frontier Technology with a focus on Web3, Space, FinTech, Sports, Robotics, Biotech, and Climate. We invest anywhere between $100k - $1.5M.

  • Red Beard Ventures Fund I invests $100k - $1M in Pre-seed and Seed blockchain based companies.

  • Denarii Labs is a tokenomics accelerator which invests $100k into companies interested in designing and launching a token over a twelve week hands-on program. Denarii also features a consulting business for later stage clients with higher touchpoint needs in tokenomics, communications, growth, and marketing.

🎤 RBV / Denarii Labs Announcements:

Denarii Labs Accelerator Cohort 003 – Applications Now Open

Denarii Labs is accepting applications for its third accelerator cohort - designed to help Web3 founders refine their token models, prepare for investors, and execute a best in class GTM strategy. Participating teams will receive $100,000 in funding and gain access to a robust network of 200+ Web3 portfolio companies—including Animoca, Dapper Labs, and SuperRare—for business development. Additionally, founders will connect with a community of over 4,000 investors ready to support their growth.

Red Beard Ventures Fund II – Now Raising

Red Beard Ventures is launching Fund II, building on the success of our first fund and extensive network in Web3, blockchain, and DePIN. With a track record of early investments in high growth companies and a strong investor base, Fund II is positioned to capitalize on emerging opportunities in the space.

Reach out to [email protected] for more information.

🚀 RBV Spotlight:

Shardeum, the world’s first EVM-based Layer 1 blockchain with dynamic state sharding, is officially launching its Mainnet on April 15, 2025. Unlike traditional blockchains, Shardeum scales transaction throughput (TPS) automatically with every new node added to the network - delivering an autoscaling decentralized architecture built for the next generation of Web3 applications.

This milestone marks a major leap toward solving scalability without compromising on security or decentralization. Backed by a passionate developer and user community, Shardeum is poised to become a foundational layer for a faster, more accessible, and composable multichain future.

💼 Portfolio News:

  • Layer3 Wallet enters open beta, introducing a smart chain abstracted wallet that simplifies spending, saving, and swapping across networks - all powered by L3.

  • Features include one-click multichain actions, gas payments in any token (including L3), and auto conversion of rewards into platform power.

  • Designed for security and scalability, the wallet sets the stage for Layer3 V3 and a fully unified user experience across the ecosystem.

  • Ocelot, Gateway’s encrypted computation engine, now achieves ~12,468 multiplications per second - fully homomorphically encrypted.

  • This milestone proves encrypted compute can now operate at high performance without sacrificing privacy.

  • The advancement positions Gateway at the forefront of scalable, privacy-preserving infrastructure across networks.

  • $MINT is now live on Solana, serving as the core utility token across Mintify’s multi-chain marketplace and DeFi ecosystem.

  • Key features include staking with 100%+ APY, EVM NFT purchases with SOL/$MINT, and upcoming token trading with 60M $MINT rewards in Season 1.

  • With cross-chain swaps, MintAI launching in Q2, and an iOS app featuring wallet abstraction and Apple Pay onramping, Mintify is building a seamless, network-agnostic digital asset experience.

  • QUEX unveils its redesigned site highlighting its TEE + TLS Notary-powered data oracles for DeFi, RWA, and blockchain markets.

  • The new site outlines how QUEX works, showcases supported networks (ETH, Celo, and six more), and introduces its core team and advisors.

  • This launch reinforces QUEX’s mission to deliver trust-minimized, verifiable data for the next generation of onchain applications.

  • Seabed Sentry is a mobile, AI-powered undersea sensor node network built for persistent surveillance and realtime communication.

  • Designed to secure subsea domains, it provides autonomous monitoring capabilities across vast maritime environments.

  • This launch strengthens U.S. and allied undersea dominance, advancing next-gen defense infrastructure below the surface.

  • Agoric’s onchain Orchestration will power seamless tipping for 64,000+ OmniFlix users -  converting any Cosmos token to $FLIX in one click.

  • This chain abstraction unlocks effortless creator support while simplifying cross chain value flows.

  • The integration showcases Agoric’s vision for multi-chain UX, governed by $BLD and built for frictionless user engagement.

🥳 Upcoming Events:

Some of the upcoming events you’ll find our team at include:

🚀 Onwards!

Drew, Elana, Joshua, Lauren, and Austin