RBV + Denarii Labs Weekly Newsletter 🧔📖 Week of 05/22/25

Open Deals, Portfolio Updates, Crypto News, & More

Author

Austin Ritter
May 22, 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, tokenomics accelerator, and Web3 consultancy:

  • 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:

QUEX, the confidential oracle network powered by Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), has officially launched on Ethereum mainnet! Following successful deployments across multiple EVM chains, this marks a significant step in bringing tamper proof and real time data feeds to the most established Layer-1 in Web3. Developers building DeFi protocols, tokenized real world assets, or AI integrated applications can now access external data verified at the hardware level - with cryptographic attestation, customizable oracle pipelines, and secure offchain data access built in. By launching on Ethereum, QUEX joins the ecosystem with the deepest liquidity, strongest developer community, and most battle tested infrastructure - positioning itself as a foundational layer for the next generation of trustless and data driven applications.

💼 Portfolio News:

  • Decentralized weather network WeatherXM secured $600K in capital and deployed funding for over 2,000 weather stations globally.

  • The campaign brought on 11 new deployment partners and expanded the network to 12 countries.

  • This marks a major expansion in WeatherXM’s DePIN coverage and community-owned environmental data collection.

  • Wire Network announced key hires from Microsoft, WallStreetBets, and NFT-native teams to lead its next growth phase.

  • The team now includes the founder of WallStreetBets and a Microsoft executive, bringing credibility and product expertise.

  • This leadership upgrade positions Wire to accelerate cross-chain product development and go-to-market efforts.

  • OORT unveiled Deimos II, a personal edge AI server enabling decentralized data processing and AI mining.

  • The device completes OORT’s decentralized pipeline for data collection, storage, and model training.

  • With presales coming soon, Deimos II opens participation in a Web3 AI cloud powered by distributed infrastructure.

  • Truflation acquired a Web3-native SQL database to improve scalability and query efficiency for its real-time inflation data feeds.

  • The move enhances Truflation’s ability to deliver institutional-grade, decentralized macroeconomic indicators.

  • This strengthens its position as a credible alternative to traditional CPI data providers.

  • Immersve enabled real-time Mastercard spending for Algorand’s official wallet, Pera, using its secure Web3 payments tech.

  • The card lets users pay in fiat while drawing funds from their crypto wallet balances in real time.

  • This expands Immersve’s role bridging DeFi and traditional finance through compliant, live card integrations.

  • CryptoSlam launched The SWARM, an AI persona delivering curated NFT news and market summaries to its user base.

  • The goal is to drive engagement through automated reporting on trends, presales, and token insights.

  • This expands CryptoSlam’s role from analytics provider to content-driven community hub.

  • Radius partnered with Fuse to offer unique incentives and access for devs participating in upcoming campaigns.

  • The campaign aims to drive adoption of both Radius’s builder tools and Fuse’s Layer-1 ecosystem.

  • It’s a mutually beneficial strategy to grow developer communities on both platforms through shared promotions.

  • Mastercard and MoonPay launched a stablecoin-powered payments card, and Dfns’ wallet infrastructure is running behind the scenes to secure transactions.

  • Dfns provides MPC (multi-party computation) key management, ensuring crypto funds can safely flow through every payment layer down to point-of-sale.

  • This collaboration showcases Dfns’ technology being used at global scale, validating its secure, scalable wallet-as-a-service platform in mainstream finance.

  • NFT data platform bitsCrunch announced it is supporting Paddle V2 – the first NFT money market on Berachain – with its AI-powered analytics infrastructure.

  • Paddle’s new platform brings real-time NFT valuation and liquidity to DeFi, and bitsCrunch’s integration provides the on-chain data intelligence to make it possible.

  • This partnership enhances NFT market transparency and showcases bitsCrunch’s tech in a novel DeFi use case.

  • SuperWorld inked a strategic partnership with Hotcoin to boost its token’s liquidity and global reach, and teamed up with ENIAC for scalable metaverse infrastructure.

  • ENIAC brings 10,000+ TPS and one-click app-chains; Hotcoin brings exposure across 100+ countries and joint marketing.

  • These partnerships expand SuperWorld’s technical capabilities and market exposure ahead of its token generation event.

  • Unstoppable, in collaboration with Brave, launched the new .brave Web3 domain extension and saw over 1,000 domains minted in the first 8 hours.

  • The .brave domains are privacy-preserving and user-owned, with aspirations to gain ICANN recognition.

  • This successful launch builds on momentum from earlier extensions like .sonic and deepens Unstoppable’s domain reach.

  • RAIR Protocol introduced DevDapp, an app that uses AI and smart contracts to reward GitHub contributors automatically.

  • The system translates code contributions into on-chain payments, creating a new incentive structure for developers.

  • DevDapp aims to solve the open source “pat on the back” problem by enabling real compensation for public code work.

🥳 Upcoming Events:

We’re at Solana Accelerate this week!

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

🚀 Onwards!

Drew, Elana, Joshua, Lauren, and Austin