Thomas Rush
thomasrush.xyz
Thomas Rush
@thomasrush.xyz
Investor at ConsenSys Mesh
Being an AI company today is the equivalent of being a “.com” company in 1999

In that soon enough, no one will use it as the key differentiator because it will be ubiquitous.
July 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Has anyone run a test with media / images to show that an average user cares about the provenance of an image? Thinking AI generated social media stuff
June 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Ironically, the most valuable data in the future will be entirely offline.
May 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Startup CEOs are far more valuable to their companies than Fortune 500 CEOs.
February 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Owning agents isn’t the problem, monetizing them is.
January 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
all these agent launchpads and no curation / aggregators for users
January 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Coinbase dark pattern?

Their price charts are effectively useless as you can only see the current price and that it's higher or lower than it used to be. And even the current price appears to fall off the page in this example of $SUI.
December 19, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Long-term: transaction fees will asymptotically approach zero, leading to the ability to circumvent current AML regulations: actors will be able to route hundreds or millions of separate payments through a complex network of smart contracts, below all regulatory thresholds.
December 11, 2024 at 3:46 PM
What is the best meme coin trading app for iOS?

#memecoins
November 28, 2024 at 12:21 AM
The @nftnow team is building a foundational non-fi product that will be a rising tide for all boats. Great to see them leveraging the @base ecosystem as well.

https://nftnow.com/news/now-media-deploys-sovereignty-on-base-to-build-the-future-of-authenticated-media/
February 27, 2024 at 4:58 PM
In the next 3-5 years we’ll see an explosion of focus on continuity within web3 organizations. What if someone leaves a DAO or a key developer stops coding?

Lg trad companies offer exactly this type of continuity and it’s a massive competitive advantage.
February 19, 2024 at 7:28 PM
web2 platforms privatize the profits and socialize the costs.

web3 protocols socialize both.
June 7, 2023 at 5:43 PM
Perhaps DAOs are just scalable Co-Ops.
May 10, 2023 at 3:32 PM