Joyce K.

Working with NRF to pursue our patent strategy is an important step in recognizing that proprietary AI systems and workflows are becoming a new form of intellectual property for modern firms. Great to partner with George, John McBride, and the team at Norton Rose Fulbright as we work at the frontier of how AI can transform investment decision-making in venture capital. At Decasonic, we believe the next generation of companies will reinvent with AI workflows and systems how organizations operate, how leaders make decisions, and how teams collaborate with intelligent systems. In going through this streamlined process, it's clear to me that many more startups should clarify their IP strategy. Our internally developed AI platform, RLEN, reflects that philosophy. We are building AI not to automate tasks and flourish outcomes, in collaborative ways for human and AI teammates. This enables our investors to test ideas, explore alternative perspectives, and reach deeper insights faster when navigating uncertainty. More broadly, we are seeing trailblazing work across industries and cities as leaders experiment with how AI can reshape communities, companies, and countries. Leadership with AI forever transforms. We are still in the early innings. Appreciate the partnership and collaboration from the Norton Rose Fulbright team as we continue inventing and innovating. Special shoutout to my colleague Abdul Al Ali who's listed as a co-inventor.

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Agentic AI and NemoClaw: Nvidia announced NemoClaw for the OpenClaw agent platform, which uses an Agent toolkit optimization software to provide local computing for autonomous agents to run around the clock. NemoClaw provides the necessary tools and guardrails to effectively make OpenClaw enterprise ready. We view this as a key development for adoption of agentic AI in enterprises.

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Two articles I've been thinking about together this week: Amir Kabir at Overlook VC on "the defining tension of 2026: extraordinary concentration at the infrastructure layer, extraordinary democratization at the application layer" Take a read: https://lnkd.in/gyaFg-nB And Isaac Arnold's framework for what actually makes an application layer company durable: workflow entanglement, domain specific knowledge, and data that compounds from usage rather than just intelligence. Take a read for yourself: https://lnkd.in/gSDXA-vH Amir identifies where the opportunity is, Isaac identifies why most companies building there won't capture it durably and what separates the ones that will.

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New research projet jointly with Alex Pruden and Conor Deegan from Project Eleven, and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (Zcash founder): we propose 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨 for blockchains and other applications: 𝐌𝐋-𝐃𝐒𝐀-𝐁 is a variant of the FIPS signature standard ML-DSA that is much faster. A tiny, impactful change: BLAKE3 for internal hashing and pre-hashing. Zero impact on security, 𝐌𝐋-𝐃𝐒𝐀-𝐁 is as reliable as the original. Code and details: https://lnkd.in/eD-hvmFW

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Flank, a Berlin-based legal AI agents developer, raised $10 million in funding. Insight Partners led the round and was joined by 10x Founders, HV Capital, and existing investor Gradient Ventures. https://lnkd.in/dYdtmbNU

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin unveiled a “radical” new scaling proposal to replace the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with the RISC-V instruction set architecture, aiming to boost the speed and efficiency of the network’s execution layer. The idea is that RISC-V is the best way to solve the blockchain’s scalability constraints.

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