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Deep Ventures Monthly Newsletter - June 2025

Deep Ventures Monthly Newsletter - June 2025

Load Network's mainnet is coming, The State of Crypto Privacy online panel, and more!

Mike Chan
July 14, 2025

Hope you’ve been well!

Sorry for the delay in sending this newsletter, I’ve been traveling around Europe for both vacation and fundraising. I’m writing this newsletter in Munich, Germany!

In this edition of our newsletter, we talk about:

Syndicate portfolio highlights for Load Network, Cross the Ages, and Torram
Video of The State of Crypto Privacy panel that we hosted
New Mik and Mike Crypto Show episodes

And more.

Let’s go!

Syndicate Portfolio Highlights

Load Network

Load Network, built by Decent Land Labs, is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for storage and high-throughput data availability, with deep protocol-level integrations with Arweave.

And they’re gearing up for mainnet launch!

They’ve kicked off the $LOAD fair launch, detailed their tokenomics, and revealed a new AO-aligned roadmap towards EVM interoperability for the entire Arweave-AO stack.

Cross the Ages

Cross the Ages (CTA) is a blockchain-based transmedia ecosystem that blends fantasy and sci-fi storytelling with gaming, NFTs, and real-world collectibles.

In Q1, CTA has:

Partnered with Animoca Brands to support the upcoming official launch of Arise, their newest multiplayer action-RPG. In addition, Animoca has begun to acquire additional CTA tokens from the open market.
Fully unlocked all CTA tokens to the public – a move rarely seen in the crypto industry. This bold step increases long-term alignment with their community and allows value to be driven by usage and contribution, not speculation.
Broke ground on The Creative Cube, a 1800m² building that will be a hub for gaming, culture and innovation in Marseilles, France.

Big moves from CTA!

Torram

Torram is Bitcoin’s first complete middleware stack built natively on the Bitcoin L1 for institutions.

We originally invested in Torram when they were developing native oracles and indexers for Bitcoin. But they are building so much more!

The Torram Testnet 2.0 is live and introduces programmability to Bitcoin, with smart contracts and a new Bitcoin-native token standard.

They’ve executed initial integrations with BitSmiley, Ordinals Hive, and Sundial.

And they’ve partnered with BitGo to be their go-to partner for institutional-grade wallet services with multi-sig and compliance support.

The breadth and depth of what Torram is building, and the speed in which they are executing, is amazing!

Interested in investing with us? We’ve launched our Fund 1 and we’d love for you to be involved. Please take a look at our deck, ping me at [email protected], and schedule a chat!

New Content

The State of Crypto Privacy Panel

We hosted our second online panel titled “The State of Crypto Privacy” on July 1 and it was amazing!

Panelists included:

Paul Brigner - VP of Strategic Alliances of Electric Coin Co / Zcash
Oliver Gale - Co-Founder of Panther Protocol (a DV syndicate portfolio company)
Auryn Macmillan - Co-Founder and CEO of Enclave / Gnosis Guild (a DV syndicate portfolio company)

They discussed:

The recent data leak of 16B records and how blockchain privacy could have helped
Valuable privacy use cases
ZKPs, FHE, and other privacy tech
How regulation has impacted crypto privacy
Much more!

View the panel below: