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Early-stage crypto investment firm helping founders bootstrap token networks.
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Safe: Unlocking the Era of Programmable Ownership
Our thesis on Safe, and why we are more excited than ever to stand alongside the community as it approaches a vote on token transferability.
A Brief History of Memecoins: Their Past and Future
Memecoins, the intersection of digital currency and internet culture, have captivated participants throughout crypto cycles. Once again, they have captured the zeitgeist for their approachability, viral spread, and alluring potential for lucrative returns.
Modding worlds: Building Hexcraft with Downstream
Composability allows us to build significantly more with less.
On Trust Minimization and Horizontal Scaling
Ethereum is a permissionless world computer that possesses (arguably) the highest amount of economic security at the time of writing, acting as the settlement ledger for a vast number of assets, applications, and services. Ethereum does have its limitations – blockspace is a scarce and expensive resource on Ethereum layer one (L1). Layer two (L2) scaling has been seen as the solution to this problem, with numerous projects coming to market in recent years, mostly in the form of rollups. However, rollups, in the strict sense of the term (meaning rollup data is on Ethereum L1), does not allow Ethereum to scale indefinitely, only allowing up to few thousands of transactions per second.
ETPs: Expanding Investor Access to Crypto
Exchange-traded products (ETPs) offer a convenient, regulated, and low-cost way for both retail and institutional investors to access a range of underlying investments — and crypto is no exception.
Wallet Infrastructure: Empowering the Next Generation of Dapps
Wallet infrastructure is playing a crucial role in unlocking the web3 experience for the next generation of dapps.
A Comparative Analysis of Decentralized Social Protocols
Comparing and contrasting the technical nuances of various decentralized social protocols
Exploring the Design Space for Dynamic NFTs
Today, most NFTs represent static assets. The immutability of its media and metadata is enforced either as a social agreement or through code. While this is sufficient for storing cultural artifacts designed to be unchanged (static art, music, writing, collectibles), there is a wide open design space for experimenting with dynamic onchain assets that continuously evolve their appearance, metadata, or state according to immutable rules.
