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tldr of crypto vcs: may 2024
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tldr of hyped next-gen ecosystems + networks: navigate wisely anon
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eigenlayer AVSs: the $15b stewards of ethereum's future
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quadrants are not indicative of investment returns (except bottom left, don’t be in the bottom left)
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so has @EspressoSys ever shipped anything besides hackmd wordcel nonsense?
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@0xBalloonLover it was but didn't want people to think i am a multicoin plant
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VANCE CAN WE PLEASE STOP WINNING
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Vance Spencer
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@CanonicalChad angels is indeed on the docket
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vcs up next, stay tuned
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@_choppingblock 1. bankless should be farther bottom right 2. MoZ is nowhere near as degen as Gwart 3. @hosseeb -- no need to be humble, you guys are more upstream than you think
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@0xsigler @izebel_eth you’re the first one to notice
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@bridge__harris FF's crypto venture investments are still mostly beta but at least you guys are probably trending in the right direction thiel's bitcoin trade still undefeated
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another hackmd! onwards and upwards to the series c! ($5b min, $10m+ in secondaries)
@benediktbuenz
Benedikt Bünz
1 month
Espresso is building a marketplace for rollups to sell their sequencing rights. We wrote up a detailed post on our market design: a combinatorial lottery that sells execution tickets for rollups or bundles of rollups. Please give us feedback on the design:
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@medhakothari praying for the funds that bring this chart to their ic meetings
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@nickwh8te was told it unironically made it to multiple ic meetings my job here is done
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can't wait for li jin's next essay on how this is just part of pump's $80m marketing budget to capture more attention
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@0lliecrypto @egirl_capital very degen, not that retarded imo
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@tbr90 @MariaShen many of those funds have killer pnls but are not necessarily driving the industry forward undoubtedly great to be an lp in those funds
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might want to update your website then
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@calilyliu
Lily Liu
1 month
VCs are not builders.
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@0x_brandon don't disrespect my bald king like that sequoia sucks ass at crypto, a16z objectively does not
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the type of deals Haun ventures leads vs the deals they beg for allocations based on 2014 connections to fund dan's daily erewhon kombuchas
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tldr of dating in your 20s: the mechanics and culture of modern dating Link:
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this chart is cursed on so many levels
@HardhatChad
Hardhat Chad
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How did solana overcome the small block mind virus?
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i have to frequently remind myself they have a DA layer that nobody uses
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@katiewav archetype soho cabal: 1 ari: 0
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overpriced and elitist with only 10 locations in over 50 years?
@nickwh8te
Nick White 🤳✨
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Celestia is the Erewhon of DA layers
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@0xMert_ perhaps they should be lower but at least they understand the meta-game can't say the same for some of the other vcs
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the first consumer crypto vc that brings on a credible celebrity/influencer as a venture partner will have provided more value than all other consumer crypto vcs with their braindead thinkpieces. the market wants thots, not thoughts
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Dating as a call option, metagaming is a bad strategy, and other red pills:
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@swaggyAlexyo swapping berachain and blast is a fair take
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what have you guys worked on in the past year? Espresso:
@EspressoSys
Espresso Systems
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probably nothing
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@enshriningplebs their 1m strategic alliancedao investment will return the fund dw
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consensys's organizational incompetence makes eigenlayer look like a competent silicon valley startup more broken than the mechanisms that the seal team six mechanism designers theorize about
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consensys is solana's greatest asset
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@FeederRotation
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@optimisticl2s > “allegations are starting to leak” bro he’s openly flaunting this
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@wdcollier_ @archetypevc would be somewhere near the origin
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this man is unreal in so many ways
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@RavilMufti it’s the only one on the x-axis
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@FeederRotation
ARI
2 months
the reason why good crypto founders are in short supply is that there aren't many people with the skills willing to take massive legal + reputational risk prices for tier 1 rounds will continue to be astronomical given this supply/demand dynamic
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@reganbozman vertical positioning matters less than horizontal positioning i expect to see you in the arena next year
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i know nobody cares because this is crypto but soliciting stake sounds an awful lot like asking users to deposit money with the expectations of profit based on the efforts of others in a common enterprise study intersubjective + vague legalese
@0xMert_
mert | helius | hSOL
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Solana validators make money in 3 ways: i) Issuance (new SOL is issued by the network or "mined") ii) MEV (traders tip validators to execute transactions in a certain way) iii) Block rewards (base fees and priority fees) when validators take a % commission — they're taking
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@TokenVC_ 1. bankless, robot, and alliance as remotely normie is certainly a take 2. wrong asymmetric and archetype
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@IamNomad can get behind jump have you seen some of pantera's positions?
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@Melt_Dem everybody thinks they’re dao5 when they’re really chapter one
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this may very well be true for the good solana projects, just the worst messenger possible backpack founder; ex lackey @ ftx, alameda
@armaniferrante
Armani Ferrante (hiring)
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Solana projects need to stop letting centralized exchanges bully them around. Exchanges need you more than you need them.
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@GarrettHarper_ solana's greatest strength is/was its laser focus on products and users. the new meta of teams forgoing product development in favor of needlessly "vertical integrating" will have negative effects on solana's culture and value proposition.
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eigenlayer -> ???
@MikeIppolito_
Mippo 🟪
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Good observation. First mover advantage in crypto is very important. What are examples of second mover advantage that contradict this?
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@0x_Osprey it’s going to change their world (lifting themselves out of poverty by buying house #5 in the hamptons)
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armani speed running the sam arc out of japan is a dangerous game unless you’re an investor, where you get a cheap call option on financial upside with no legal risk
@SolanaNewsPost
Solana Post
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JUST IN: @Backpack smashes another daily trading volume record – $1 billion! Huge achievement by @armaniferrante , @yver__ , and the entire team. This rivals some exchanges' annual volume!
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solana teams: too lazy to use chatgpt to come up with their own initialism solayer --> solazy
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@FeederRotation
ARI
2 months
soon all the permutations will be complete and people will realize that vms were never the bottleneck
@danhwang88
Daniel Hwang (🌳,🌳)
2 months
We’ve got SVM on Ethereum. We’ve got EVM on Solana. We’ve got EVM on Cosmos. When SVM on Cosmos 👀
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@FeederRotation
ARI
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thiel really wants early crypto beta
@alliancedao
Alliance
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1/ We’re happy to announce a new strategic partnership with @foundersfund which will equip Alliance-accelerated founders with increased access to resources and mentorship. To kick off this partnership, Alliance co-founder @lmrankhan sat down with several Founders Fund team
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praying for the ppl that bookmarked this shit
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@SolBeachBum third from top right
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@FeederRotation
ARI
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@metaproph3t turns out a 10-100x private/public arbitrage is a strong incentive call me shocked
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almost every interesting crypto protocol is backed by one of the five big vcs past the seed/series A stage there is no more selection alpha because everybody knows who the winners are the same is true in the normal startup scene except for it’s at the series A/B stage
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@0x_antifragile was a not-so-subtle nod as to how i view myself perhaps too subtle
@0xsigler @izebel_eth you’re the first one to notice
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@nosleepjon don't read too much into it and don't forget to launch the token
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6 months in and less revenue than the kids illegally selling lemonade on the corner.
@nickwh8te
Nick White 🤳✨
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Wild that it's already been 6 months since Celestia launched. Time flies Been an incredible journey thus far. More to come 💪
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@0x_antifragile just look at their investors -- no further comments
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@CapitalMonet multicoin may invest in predatory retail dogshit but don’t conflate that with being dumb
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@FeederRotation
ARI
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the fugazi that we call the crypto industry is the result of leaders being solely selected for verbal intelligence to convince investors and retail that there will be someone else to buy their bags
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@0xmadisonn @robotventures robot indexes all the best teams and I’m here for it
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@FeederRotation
ARI
2 months
every cycle a CEX has imploded but this time it’s different because it’s being run by a non-technical employee from a CEX that blew up last cycle and an open-source dev that was backed but not endorsed by the FTX deep state
@cburniske
Chris Burniske
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Every cycle a new CEX has risen to enter the top tier, and this cycle, that exchange appears to be @Backpack .
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@divine_economy nobody said anything about any of these funds being ethical or honest
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@garybasin
Gary Basin 🍍
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Chamath is right actually. It is midwit to have an opinion on geopolitics 10k miles away coming to you through 7 dimensions of psyop. If all you want to hear is "bad thing is bad" then you're not a serious person
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@samoa_joes @swaggyAlexyo study people + incentives
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@FeederRotation
ARI
2 months
major eigenda cope market likely will not support 5+ da layers at current vals
@nickwh8te
Nick White 🤳✨
2 months
PSA: Celestia and EigenLayer are NOT competitors. Data availability and restaking are different and complementary tools. Data availability lets a rollup inherit security from an existing chain. Restaking uses an existing token as collateral for economic security.
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@FeederRotation
ARI
2 months
eigenlayer is a sreeram grad student slave coin
@chainyoda
chainyoda
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Solana is a 3.2 GPA CS undergrad coin Ethereum is a 4.0 GPA Math PhDCoin It is what it is
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@joemccann barbell theory dictates that, as an lp, you should be investing in only the corners funds
quadrants are not indicative of investment returns (except bottom left, don’t be in the bottom left)
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@enshriningplebs it's not like that have that many choices, aside incubating their own projects which requires actual skill
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@Billini_ a case could be made for flipping berachain and blast
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> ionet investor says crypto isn't a scam
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@ligmosisjones marginfi should be further towards the top left
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@FeederRotation
ARI
2 months
it’s almost like they all started at the same place! study cabals
@enshriningplebs
enshriningplebs
2 months
so many of these scam rounds are just some premutation of polychain, hackvc and dao5 they'll have their day in court or move to Dubai for the hookers
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0 chance firedancer goes live this year great team and project but also a jump fugazi the amount of grant money jump is getting from this could solve world hunger
@0xMert_
mert | helius | hSOL
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firedancer is the biggest upgrade for any blockchain in the industry this year — along with 4844 TL;DR — new, performant validator client for Solana built by people specializing in performance we wrote a post covering everything about it here:
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@FeederRotation
ARI
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the solana social layer is here to bring you sandwiching and “trust me bro” economics
@R89Capital
Rex
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The group is about to make its first investment. Pretty exciting :P
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@avichal still doesn't quite top your wallet <> L1 u-shaped value curve quote
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@pre_revenue_ unfortunately not @intern
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@FeederRotation
ARI
2 months
the real reason to back undifferentiated scam projects run by <25 year olds is that they are much less likely to be targeted by the SEC and you as a vc can get in at a $80m val and sell at $8b
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@0xbreezy0 was meant to be a 1-2 year outlook
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@RachaelRad @avichal please relay to katie + team that $3-5m seed round checks do not add up to $1.5b time to get in the arena by moving eastward
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@futurenomics the dynamics of venture + liquid funds intra and inter-firms is criminally overlooked and misunderstood
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crypto either needs to dramatically lower the dev barrier to unlock the long tail of developers (unlikely) or nerdsnipe 100x more people to have a health(ier) ecosystem with reasonable prices and more checks and balances
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@sia_kazi sorry, should have put you farther down the y-axis
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@1kxnetwork @DennisonBertram @divine_economy sequoia: playing league won't forget you guys next time
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Oil enabled nations to lift themselves out of poverty by creating technologies never before possible Digital oil enables network states of degens to emerge via generational wealth creation by creating new renditions of the same ponzis The great stagnation is over
@0xdoug
Doug Colkitt
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Ethereum is digital oil, but defi primitives are the refineries that turn crude blockspace into usable products. What side accrues the most value? Not many people realize, but Rockefeller made far more money from refining oil than extracting it. Study 19th century industrialism
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@zmanian you’re a goat angel dawg
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@0xNiles quadrants are uncorrelated to investment returns
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@chudnovglavniy doing my part 🫡
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@FeederRotation
ARI
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@futurenomics instead it’s a wallet that will be perpetually teased
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@FeederRotation
ARI
2 months
an AVS with at least 1 founder that can explain what an AVS is
@chainyoda
chainyoda
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A decentralised AI project where at least one of the founders has a fkin clue about AI
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@Jessesawa fed + normie vibes too strong
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@FeederRotation
ARI
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@drjasper_eth just wait until the mechanism designers clone PBS
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