Crowdsourcing the real world sounds simple until you have to run it. That's why the people behind @vangrid_io caught my eye. Phones capturing 3D data, verified onchain, paid out in USDC. That's a distributed systems problem, a payments problem and a go-to-market problem all at once. CTO Khalid Benrafik has 14+ years building high-throughput distributed systems, with time at https://t.co/JWi2w1m4kF, ING and Mollie. Infrastructure he built supported millions of users and over $1B in annual transactions. CEO Robert Brighton has spent 10 years on GTM and revenue across deep tech and Web3, and was at Microsoft with the Quantum Computing and HoloLens groups in Europe. One built for scale and money moving. The other has spent a decade taking deep tech to market. Based in Amsterdam, and part of NVIDIA Inception. A good team doesn't guarantee anything. But on a problem this messy, I'd rather see these résumés than a nice deck.