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Simão
@SimaoCCruz
Founding Partner @Lightshift_xyz I Forbes 30U30 Finance I @ETHLisbon I Opinions are my own, not investment advice
Lisbon, Portugal
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    @SimaoCCruz
    Jan 18, 2022
    I'm thrilled to announce Lightshift I ! A $30M early-stage digital asset fund investing in and building the future of decentralized financial services. A thread on our strategy…
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    @SimaoCCruz
    Feb 26
    I will be at DAS @blockworksDAS in NYC If you are building in Digital Assets send me a message to connect
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    @SimaoCCruz
    Feb 17
    Mirador just raised a pre-seed round led by @Lightshift_xyz We are extremely excited to back @jespern (Founder of Bitbucket and Upvest, CTO at Arweave, and most recently Director of Engineering at Kraken) and @DanAtMirador (CTO at @skewdotcom – acquired by Coinbase – and later
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    Mirador Labs | Unbounded Observability
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    @SimaoCCruz
    Oct 21, 2025
    Meet Canton: the $6T/month institutional blockchain hiding in plain sight. +$4 trillion in tokenized assets; +$6 trillion processed every month; +$400M raised. Today we share our research on the network: • Architecture and why the top 10 banks are choosing Canton (+$200B
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    Canton Network
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    @SimaoCCruz
    Oct 13, 2025
    Daimler (Mercedes-Benz’s parent company) bought 9.1% of Tesla for $50 million in 2009. They sold part to Aabar Investments (Abu Dhabi) and fully exited in 2014 for $780 million. Today that same stake would be worth over $60 billion.

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