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Crypto Native: All Signal. No Noise. Only Frontier.

Welcome to Crypto Native, editorialized by Tom Serres, where founders and investors get signal-rich insights into the fast, weird, and occasionally ridiculous future of digital assets, AI, decentralized intelligence, and programmable capital systems. As the internet mutates from static infrastructure into a swarm of agent-driven networks, Crypto Native is here to cut through the noise, call out the hype, and help you stay one step ahead of the madness.

Tom is currently running three active ventures: Nautilus Asset Management, Mustaa, and serving as Ecosystem Partner at Cadenza Ventures.

Nautilus is a next-generation investment firm for digital asset treasuries. At its core is Seneca, a custom-built transformer platform that dynamically spins up deep learning-based trading strategies across multiple asset classes. Seneca does not just stare at charts; it ingests time-series data, retrains continuously, and adjusts to market chaos in real time. Nautilus helps capital allocators from sovereign treasuries to DAOs turn volatility into strategy, offering algorithmic models designed to boost yield, manage risk, and preserve capital in an unpredictable financial era.

Mustaa is not about flexing luxury; it is about turning real-world assets into productive, yield-bearing machines. Through tokenized time utility and a growing ecosystem of services like experience-as-a-service and asset-layer marketplaces, Mustaa is redefining what underused yachts, jets, and villas can do. Forget “look at my boat,” this is “look at my productive asset stack.”

At Cadenza Ventures, Tom serves as Ecosystem Partner, where he sources founders, institutional investors, family offices, and service partners, deploying capital across AI, Web3, and liquid strategies. He also works closely with founders inside a venture studio environment, sometimes as coach, sometimes as co-builder, helping launch and scale the next generation of breakthrough companies.

Before these, Tom co-founded The Tomorrow Fund and Warburg Serres, as well as Animal Ventures and Rally.org. At Rally, he helped campaigns and causes raise billions, made the Forbes “Most Promising CEOs Under 35” list, and was one of the first to raise a Series A entirely online with AngelList’s Naval Ravikant, back when online fundraising sounded like a punchline.

Expect deep dives into alpha trends, founder spotlights, decentralized AI drama, tokenomics experiments, and market mechanics. Crypto Native is here to make sure you get the jokes, spot the traps, and find the asymmetric opportunities before they hit your feed.

His pillars of excellence in strategy, sourcing, and harmonized self shape how he builds, invests, and communicates. With a power-law mindset, it is all about the rare, extraordinary moves that tilt the game. Paid subscribers get access to sessions, memos, and premium insights built for the breakneck speed of modern tech, where Web3 meets AI and capital does not just flow, it learns.

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