Akshat_Maelstrom
@akshat_hk
Managing Partner / Co-founder @MaelstromFund | Former Head of M&A @BitMEX | @Wharton @Penn Alumnus | Texan Abroad
Embarking on a new journey with @CryptoHayes' family office @MaelstromFund to invest in infrastructure start-ups powering the next wave of decentralization // new models to monetize the internet. Actively deploying capital; Pre-seed thru Series A founders, please reach out.
Unpopular opinion: I’m a fan of this European innovation. [unironically]
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Fully supportive of helping liberate Iran from Islamism, but wait 2 weeks bro waiting on an unlock
Competitive landscapes in crypto shift at lightspeed, incumbents in every category of crypto beware.
BonkFun is the biggest signal to just build whatever it is you want to build. You don’t need to be first, users aren’t as sticky as you think. • Yap hard. • Ship harder. • Show conviction. • Put your users first.
History is being made
Excited to back the first pure-play stablecoin DAT in the history of public markets
Even in authoritarian China, the people yearn for financial freedom: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
My 2 weeks trying to actually "live" in the EU—not just chilling on vacation—made it crystal clear why top talent bolts for the US, HK, SG, or Dubai.
I was slightly bearish in my last essay due to TGA refill. What changed? $BTC busted through ATH on good volume $ETH is following and will outperform, get ready for a monster alt szn. Mrkt thinks Trump will TACO on tariffs, so fuck it: @MaelstromFund is backing up the truck!
Global business travelers: steer clear of @FlySWISS if your time matters. Two cancelled business class flights and their chat support takes 10+ mins per reply, just to claim there's nothing they can do.
As flights to/from France are getting cancelled today due to the strike a look back to history, when ~11,000 individuals tried to hold an entire nation hostage in the 1980s, risking the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people (vital medicine, transplants,…
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2025 Crypto Investment Thesis w/ Maelstrom Managing Partner, Akshat Vaidya x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Trump leaving G7 early + last minute meeting with military dictator of Pakistan = Trump planning airstrikes on Iran, and expects to use Pakistani airbases to do so?
Decentralized finance relying so heavily on centralized social media
So word on the street with the Bans are/is Twitter legal on the warpath for anyone that uses a shared API for their platform. Basically Twitter doesn’t want people logging into XYZ app with Twitter. Pump vision had some Twitter look ups, GMGN as well, same with Ai16z (chat…