Protagonist

👋 Meet Raad Labs 📍 HQ: Miami Beach, Florida 👥 Leadership: TJ (Teej) Ragsdale 🌐 Website: raad.com 🚀 Vision & Opportunity: Raad is deploying a distributed network of meteorological sensors and incentivizing individuals and businesses to purchase and host devices. This hyper-localized ground truth will empower governments, energy traders, utilities, and insurers to take action, protect infrastructure, and prevent human suffering. 💸 Round: Seed

Excited to share a recap of an incredible month for UNICORN. Thank you to the Unicorn community, customers, and our incredible team for establishing us as the leading platform for spirits & wine. Cheers to our June highlights: 📈 $3.8M Total Hammer Sales: Milestone month with record sales, customer growth, and newly vaulted bottles 🥃 15,000+ Bottles Sold:  Demand for premium spirits and wine remains robust, with more enthusiasts joining our platform every day from all over the world 🥇 World Record for Most Expensive Bourbon Sold: We made history with the sale of the 1982 6L OFC bourbon for an astonishing $122,900—setting a new bourbon world record https://rb.gy/0pwmu7 💰 Record Consignor Payouts: A product of our commitment to delivering exceptional value and speedy payouts of over $3.8m to consingors 📰 Press + Media: Noteworthy press about Unicorn in The Wall Street Journal & Robb Report Stop wasting time hunting for bottles and grab whatever you've been looking for in our 5,800+ bottle auction ending this Sunday (7/14). Or, reach out if you want to learn more about buying, selling, or vaulting with Unicorn!

👋 Meet Sentient 📍 HQ: San Francisco, CA 👥 Leadership: Sandeep Nailwal, Pramod Viswanath, Himanshu Tyagi, 0xSensys 🌐 Website: sentient.foundation 🚀 Vision & Opportunity: Sentient is an AI research organization fostering a new Open AGI Economy for AI Builders and Creators. Sentient is building platforms and protocols to enable open-source AI developers to (1) monetize their models, data, and other innovations, (2) collaborate with each other to collectively build powerful AIs, and (3) be significant stakeholders in a new Open AGI economy. 💸 Round: Seed

👋 Meet RedStone Oracles 📍HQ: BAAR, Switzerland 👥 Leadership: Jakub Wojciechowski, Marcin Kaźmierczak ⛓️ Alex Suvorov 🌐 Website: www.redstone.finance 🚀 Vision & Opportunity: RedStone is a modular oracle delivering diverse, high-frequency data feeds to EVM Layer 1, Layer 2, Rollup-as-a-Service networks, and beyond, such as Starknet, Fuel Network, or TON. By responding to market trends and developer needs, RedStone can support assets not available elsewhere. The modular design allows for data consumption models adjusted to specific use cases, such as capital-efficient LSTfi and early support of LRTs. RedStone is trusted by Pendle, Morpho, Venus, Ethena, ether.fi, and more. 💸 Round: Series A

We're incredibly excited and honored to announce that SITE's Co-Founder Austin Rabine has returned to SITE as our CEO! Read more details below; https://lnkd.in/gKr4CMDy

Last week, Protagonist team members George Bousis and Michael Gargiulo visited UNICORN Auctions new headquarters, alongside CEO & Co-Founder Phil Mikhaylov.

👋 Meet Nubit 📍 HQ: Santa Barbara, CA 👥 Leadership: Yu Feng, Hanzhi Liu, and Hongbo Wen 🌐 Website: www.nubit.org 🚀 Vision & Opportunity: Founded by UCSB computer science professor Yu Feng, Nubit integrates a decade of research to advance blockchain scalability. Nubit is pioneering an innovative DA solution to unlock unlimited applications in AI, SocialFi, and GameFi. By leveraging Bitcoin’s economic security, Nubit ensures both security and scalability. 💸 Round: Seed

👋 Meet Fhenix 📍HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel 👥 Leadership: Guy Itzhaki and Guy Zyskind 🌐 Website: www.fhenix.io 🚀 Vision & Opportunity: Fhenix is a confidential Layer 2 solution for Ethereum, enabling developers to build encrypted smart contracts and perform encrypted computation using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with tools like Solidity. It unlocks new capabilities for end-to-end encrypted decentralized applications by extending Ethereum with on-chain confidentiality and private computation over encrypted data through FHE Rollups and Coprocessors. 💸 Round: Series A

Last week, George Bousis, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Protagonist, spoke at the Roam Chicago launch event, highlighting how Roam is building the office of tomorrow.

👋 Meet Glacis Labs 📍 HQ: New York, USA 👥 Leadership: Jacob Blish, Shyamal Patel, Gustavo J. Vazquez Amado, Jeremy Boetticher 🌐 Website: www.glacislabs.com 🚀 Vision & Opportunity: Glacis is a Firewall, Router and universal adaptor for chain agnostic messaging that provides a comprehensive solution for cross-chain operations. Developers can use Glacis to express the relative value of individual messages getting sent cross-chain by assigning different security requirements to them. Designed to be a plug-and-play platform, Glacis eliminates the complexity of working across multiple blockchain networks, enabling developers to focus on creating robust decentralized applications (dApps) without compromising on security or functionality. 💸 Round: Seed