Essays on Internet Capital Markets, tokenization, and building on Solana — from ICM.RUN and its mentors.
Mercy · A practical, founder-first playbook for raising your first $100K on-chain in 2026 — expertise, grants, capital readiness, tokenization, and the accelerators worth joining.
ICM.RUN · A 9-month summary of ICM.RUN's progress — key metrics, portfolio breakdown, how portfolio companies benefit $ICM holders, learnings from Cohort 1, and what's next for Season 2.
ICM.RUN · Cohort 1 mentor votes are in. A breakdown of the accepted teams — Cashmere Labs, Dominion, Onsight, Spout, Veil, FAIR.CLUB, Dapital, Tessera, and GoSave — and the mentors guiding them.
Andrew Seb · The lost generation of founders — elite Web2 operators were locked out of crypto by a broken bridge. ICM.RUN is the DAO incubator built to bring them back on-chain.
Andrew Seb · The collapse of the old playbook — why Web2 founders need a new liquidity path, and how Internet Capital Markets fix a venture system built for a different internet.
ICM.RUN · Announcing ICM.RUN's Public Goods Initiative on Solana — Spotlight, in partnership with Pump.fun, to highlight and support post-TGE founders building real public goods.
Mercy · Unveiling ICM.RUN's DAO-centric flywheel for value accrual — how staking $ICM streams USDC or SOL to holders by channeling deal-flow referral value into a community vault.
Mercy · ICM.RUN is the first incubator built specifically for Internet Capital Markets on Solana — how $ICM holders capture value across the incubator, ecosystem, and NFT angles, and why ICM.RUN is the go-to hub for ICM builders.
ICM.RUN · Why Internet Capital Markets are accelerating now — the macro, technical, and cultural forces pulling Web2 and Web3 founders on-chain.
ICM.RUN · The arc of Internet Capital Markets — from the 2017 ICO era through the VC bubble, the post-FTX reset, fair launches, and the road to tokenized equity.