Elizabeth Hunker Early Blockchain Adopter, Investor & Advisor Episode 7 · 1:57:45
Elizabeth Hunker is an early blockchain adopter, investor, and advisor with a decade of proof-of-work in blockchain and emerging technologies.
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Q1 2026 set the all-time record for venture investment. Four companies raised 65% of it. Seed deal count fell 31%. The money is real. The distribution is not what the headline implies.
In August 2025, TypeScript became GitHub’s most-used language with 2.6M contributors (+66%). Then Microsoft rewrote its compiler in Go — not to change the language, but to scale performance. Winning isn’t adoption anymore, it’s sustaining it under pressure.
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