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gm we’ve raised $450 million to support the brightest founders in web3

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Join @boironattorney from @0xPolygon & advisor to Variant, @RebeccaRettig1 from @AaveAave , & @jessewldn for a Web3 Legal AMA covering the latest on decentralization policy, Tornado Cash & more. Host: @adam__xyz Tuesday 8/23, 11am ET Set a reminder here:

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Watch @Mclader of @uniswap and @devinawalsh of @UniswapFND talk all things Uniswap -- product and protocol -- onstage with @jessewldn at our LP Day this fall:

Fireside Chat: Uniswap Labs COO and Uniswap Foundation Exec Director...

Variant general partner Jesse Walden chats with Uniswap Labs COO Mary-Catherine Lader and Uniswap Foundation Executive Director Devin Walsh onstage at Varian...

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This morning we sent out the first issue of our Variant newsletter. This one is all about web3 social, centered around a new framework by @ljin18 plus links to other new posts from our team on the same topic. We welcome your input. Make sure to subscribe:

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24 early-stage crypto projects. 12 weeks of building and learning. We’ve just wrapped our inaugural Variant Founder Fellowship and are thrilled to congratulate the first cohort. See their Demo Day videos in this thread👇🏽and learn more about VFF here:

Variant Founder Fellowship 2023: Meet Our Inaugural Cohort

The first Variant Founder Fellowship culminated in September 2023 with our first cohort showcasing their projects as part of VFF Demo Days.

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everyone on Farcaster watching suPerl bowl tonight. @a16zcrypto VS @variantfund

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📣 Today is *Demo Day* for our inaugural Variant Founder Fellowship cohort! After spending the summer building, brainstorming, networking, and learning from guest speakers, our fellows showcase their projects today (consumer) and tomorrow (infra & DeFi). Here’s a roll call…

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We're halfway through our inaugural Variant Founder Fellowship, and we've been bringing in incredible speakers like @Uniswap founder @haydenzadams . Here's a sneak peek. On Monday, we'll start publicly sharing selected content from VFF for all builders to learn from. See you then!

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Earlier this summer, we hand-picked 24 projects from 400+ applicants for our inaugural Variant Founder Fellowship. Fellows have spent 12 weeks learning from industry experts and from each other. On Sept 6 & 7, they’ll showcase their projects at our first ever *VFF Demo Day*

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We just sent our end-of-year newsletter: @ljin18 on points in crypto; our 5 most-read essays of the year; and our favorite pieces elsewhere, incl. @eugenewei @JacobPPhillips @tracecrypto1 @DCbuild3r @morganhousel @PaulFrambot @joel_john95 @desh_saurabh

Points have a point in crypto

Plus: Wrapping the year with our best writing

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📣 Day 2 of our Variant Founder Fellowship DEMO DAY is here, and today is all about infrastructure and DeFi. Meet the fellows and their 12 exciting projects in this thread. 🚀

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The biggest barrier right now to mainstream crypto adoption isn’t UX—it’s product-market fit, writes our @ljin18 .

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gm! We've just sent out acceptance letters for the Variant Founder Fellowship. Kicking off in June, we are thrilled to welcome the founders of more than 20 promising crypto startups for 12 weeks of learning, skill-building, and networking. Congratulations, let's build!

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Our latest newsletter issue is out: @jphackworth42 dives into the data to show why it's been a DEX summer; links to our recent writing on AMMs, DeFi lending, DePIN &more; and our team's takeaways from #EthCC in Paris. Read and subscribe on @viamirror :

Variant Newsletter: DEXs flex their resilience

For the latest Variant newsletter, our data scientist Jack Gorman breaks down how DEXs have demonstrated their resilience during a bear market.

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A slack message from @ljin18 about the divided reactions to Friendtech prompted a team-wide debate on the broader question of using speculation to bootstrap new crypto social networks. We posted the chat, and we welcome your input:

Variant Debate: Speculation as Growth Strategy for Social Apps

Is speculation a feature or a bug? The rise of Friend.tech has us debating whether appealing to speculation is a viable strategy to build new social networks.

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the fund was variant before covid 🤷‍♂️

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Zero-knowledge proofs are becoming ubiquitous. Pluto’s @devloper_xyz wants to see more experimentation, and Personae’s @lakshmansankar says getting the security right is hard. The two founders told our Fellows where ZKPs are headed—and how to use them. 👇

The Promise of Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Personae and Pluto

Personae’s Lakshman Sankar and Pluto co-founder Tracy Livengood say there’s lots of confusion over what zero-knowledge proofs mean for web3.

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Our inaugural Variant Founder Fellowship cohort spent the summer building in categories like lending, security, social, NFTs, key management, wallet design & more. On Sept 6 & 7 they'll showcase their projects at VFF Demo Day. Sign up to join us:

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Today we start sharing some of the great speaker talks from our Variant Founder Fellowship! First up: this must-watch chat between @Uniswap founder @haydenzadams and our own @jessewldn . Stay tuned as we'll be posting lots more VFF content all summer 👀

Uniswap Founder Hayden Adams: Product vs Protocol

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams talked to the Variant Founder Fellowship cohort about why protocol builders should tackle UI themselves, when to add new features, and how to release an “anti-hype”...

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How should early-stage web3 founders approach brand marketing & big partnerships? @Fwiz dove deep for our VFF cohort. The purpose is "adding fuel to the fire, not jump-starting something." You’ll also need to "pound the pavement” and "bug people.” Watch:

What Brand Marketing Can and Can’t Do in Web3: Ryan Wyatt

Former Polygon Labs President Ryan Wyatt speaks candidly about the advantages and pitfalls of brand marketing partnerships in web3.

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Major computing breakthroughs tend to come in couplets, and the next generation of apps will be built thanks to the couplet of blockchains + zk cryptography. Watch @AlanaDLevin 's talk from our LP Day this fall on the 3 new superpowers that zk enables:

What ZK Unlocks for Applications: Variant's Alana Levin

Variant investment partner Alana Levin gives a talk on the "superpowers" that zero-knowledge (ZK) cryptography enables for crypto apps and why ZK is about to...

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GM. We have started reviewing applications for the Variant Founder Fellowship and are blown away by the amazingly talented builders who submitted their ideas!

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🔹🔹🔹 Join us tomorrow at 11 EST for a special Spaces on the upcoming merge to PoS, it’s potential implications for DeFi and lending markets, and more! Ft. @MacroMate8 from @eulerfinance , and @spencernoon @Derekmw23 @gham1lt0n from @variantfund

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EigenLayer founder @sreeramkannan on decentralized trust, hyperscaling, and why @eigenlayer considered, then decided against, building a new L1. ("You don’t need to go and build a new trust network for every new idea you have.") Watch his VFF talk:

Rethinking Decentralized Trust: EigenLayer’s Sreeram Kannan

EigenLayer's Sreeram Kannan talks about creating infrastructure around decentralized trust, what it takes to hyperscale, and why new L1s don’t solve every problem.

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In our Variant newsletter, we've written about web3 social media apps, onchain-native advertising, app-specific rollups, rising DEX usage, & much more. Subscribe to make sure you get our upcoming next issue.

Variant | Substack

Notes and mental models on the user-owned web. From the team at Variant. Click to read Variant, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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We were shocked and disappointed by posts that were recently surfaced from a consultant to Variant. Racism, homophobia, sexism, and all forms of discrimination are in direct opposition to everything we stand for and what we want to foster in web3.

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Clave is turning your smartphone or tablet into a hardware wallet by using biometric authentication as backup keys. @rafierszl @doganeth_en @getclave

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Web3 founders "need to get their users emotionally invested in a project." @ljin18 spoke to the inaugural Variant Founder Fellowship cohort about the importance of building psychological ownership into crypto apps:

Case Studies in Psychological Ownership

Variant's Li Jin spoke to the Variant Founder Fellowship cohort about why web3 apps must make their earliest users feel like owners—not just tokenholders.

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What is digital fashion? @danidoesnotxist has the answer @pronounceddrop

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DRAUP (A Film by ZORA)

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Check out today's interview with @jessewldn and @spencernoon on @TheScoopPod -- hosted by @fintechfrank Topics include: Variant's new fund, the four investment themes they're focused on, and what's working (and not working) in web3.

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"We're backing founders at the earliest stages who are building towards that future." @Variantfund founders @jessewldn and @spencernoon unpack their bull case thesis for Web3 + new funds totaling $450 Million Listen to the podcast out now 👇

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NFTs are the lifeblood of onchain brands, says @viamirror founder @Iiterature , who told our Variant Founder Fellowship cohort how “digitally-native swag” can propel a brand narrative, what made Base’s launch a success, & why legacy brands struggle in web3:

Denis Nazarov Holds Up a Mirror to Onchain Brands

Mirror CEO Denis Nazarov explains how web3 brands can use NFTs to turn passive audiences into active communities.

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Join us tomorrow for a special Twitter Spaces on tokenomics, protocol design, @goldfinch_fi and more. Featuring @jessewldn @Derekmw23 @_blakewest and @sall .

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Do you know about "kindle strategies" and "fire strategies?" Tech advisor and Pinterest, Grubhub, Eventbrite alum @onecaseman spoke to our Variant Founder Fellowship cohort about applying web2 product lessons to web3 apps:

Applying Lessons from Web2 to Unlock Web3 Product Growth: Casey Winters

Pinterest, Grubhub, and Eventbrite alum Casey Winters discusses product-market fit, growth loops, and onboarding—and how to apply them in web3.

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We are lucky to work alongside @boironattorney . His new playbook on "Sufficient Decentralization" is an essential read for any founder thinking critically about decentralization, especially re: off-chain activities.

Sufficient Decentralization - by Marc Boiron

This playbook for web3 founders and lawyers explains how to efficiently structure a community to achieve “sufficient decentralization.”

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Congrats to @MaraSchmiedt , CEO at @alluvialfinance , and co-founders of @MorphoLabs ( @PaulFrambot @MerlinEgalite @MathisGD_ @Julien_devatom ) for being named to the #ForbesUnder30 Europe list.

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What seeds of innovation from the last bull run will become the foundation of the next crypto cycle? Watch Variant Co-Founder and GP @ljin18 on stage at @brainstormtech alongside @sriramk @0xSamHarrison and @AnneSraders

Brainstorm Tech 2022: Tales From The Crypt(o) - Volatility Is A Feature, Not A Bug

Sam Harrison, Managing Partner, Lightspeed Faction Li Jin, General Partner, Variant Sriram Krishnan, General Partner, a16z crypto Moderator: Anne Sraders, Senior Writer, FORTUNE

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Dawn is building a smart wallet for people to use Ethereum apps with the fewest possible taps. Its conversational AI interface ”will learn from you as you use it.” @tom_waite_ @koide_dev @dawn_wallet

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How will tokens shape the future of consumer behavior? In his latest piece, @masonnystrom breaks down a framework for understanding how to think about this in the context of recent tech history. Dive in 👇

When tokens shape behavior

A framework for studying tokenomics and net-new markets

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Reminder what we’re doing over here 👇

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In pursuit of a more equitable and innovative internet, I'm launching something new 🚀 @VariantFund is early-stage venture capital for crypto networks and founders building The Ownership Economy. Whats that? I explain here: Thread 👇

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If you fast-forward 5 years, web3 wallets will replace email-based account creation as the way you access every app and web site, says @dynamic_xyz CEO @turbahn . Watch and learn from his talk to our VFF fellows about MPC vs account abstraction & much more:

Why Wallets Will Rule Web3: Dynamic’s Itai Turbahn

Dynamic CEO Itai Turbahn told the Variant Founder Fellowship why wallets will become the ubiquitous portal across the web.

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Future Primitive is building on the ERC-6551 standard (token-bound accounts) to turn every NFT into a smart contract wallet. @futureprimitive @BennyGiang

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day: Future Primitive

Future Primitive is building on the ERC-6551 standard (token-bound accounts) to turn every NFT into a smart contract wallet. Founder: Benny Giang. This proje...

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Proud as always to have @jchervinsky as one of our strategic advisors. In a recent episode of @BanklessHQ he breaks down the Tornado Cash fallout and what it means for the crypto ecosystem. Check it out👇

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🚨The Death of Crypto Privacy??🚨 @jchervinsky unpacks the fallout of Tornado Cash - Will we be able to regain access to @TornadoCash ? - Or will DeFi have to compromise on privacy? Are we entering⚡Crypto Wars 2.0?⚡ 🚨LIVE📺👀 - 3pm PST - 6pm EST

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You can also subscribe onchain @viamirror -- and if you do it before June 11 you can mint a special subscriber NFT art piece from @GiorgioBalbi :

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Why shared sequencers are so important, and how web3 app builders should approach sequencer infra, according to @Jskybowen of @AstriaOrg :

How Founders Should Approach Shared Sequencers: Astria’s Josh Bowen

Astria's Jose Bowen explains how sequencers work, why shared sequencers are important, and how founders should approach sequencer infra.

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In case you missed it, we spent an hour unpacking the latest trends and topics in the legal and regulatory landscape in web3 with the incredible @boironattorney , @RebeccaRettig1 , and @jessewldn . You can listen back here:

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Clave uses biometric authentication to turn smartphones into hardware wallets. @getclave @doganeth_en @rafierszl

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Clave

Clave uses biometric authentication to turn smartphones into hardware wallets. Founders: Doğan Alpaslan and Rafi Ersozlu. This project demo was part of Varia...

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It's about growing horizontally instead of vertically. @Hyperlane_xyz CEO @thePalenimbus told our Variant Founder Fellowship cohort why he's all in on modularity, and why "the missing piece of the modular puzzle" is permissionless interoperability:

Where Interoperability and Modularity Meet: Hyperlane CEO Jon Kol

Hyperlane CEO Jon Kol discusses synergies between interoperability, modularity, and permissionlessness with the Variant Founder Fellowship.

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Nosh is a “restaurant-owned co-operative alternative to the leading delivery apps” that connects restaurants, drivers, and consumers. “There isn’t really a restaurant in the entire world that likes working with” the big delivery apps, says @mike_perhats @GleidsonGo_ @NoshDelivery

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Shield streamlines incident responses to help web3 companies quickly get back on track post-hack. @shield_xyz @EmanFT_ @isaiahudotong

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Shield

Shield streamlines incident responses to help web3 companies quickly get back on track post-hack. Founders: Emmanuel Udotong and Isaiah Udotong. This project...

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Interoperability using zk-SNARKs; thinking in terms of intent-based architecture; and staying "motivated by the end user UX.” Listen to @SuccinctLabs CEO @pumatheuma 's talk to our Variant Founder Fellowship:

The Rising Importance of Intents in Web3: Succinct’s Uma Roy

Uma Roy talks interoperability, intents, and account abstraction, and how everything comes back to making the user’s life easier.

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With more than 300 applications for just ~20 spots, there were many impressive builders we were sadly unable to accept to this first cohort. We hope you'll bookmark our writing page, where we'll publicly share some of the learnings from fellowship events:

Writing & Ideas – Variant

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This Friday! 11am ET. Join @PaulFrambot from @MorphoLabs and @spencernoon , @gham1lt0n and @Derekmw23 from Variant to talk all things DeFi lending. Set a reminder here:

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Seam is building a nostalgic social media app that plugs into web3 games and emphasizes identity curation beyond traditional social media’s walled gardens. @nickconfrey @_katherholt @seam_xyz

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Seam is building a web3 social media app around identity curation. @seam_xyz @_katherholt @nickconfrey

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Seam

Seam is building a web3 social media app around identity curation that is both nostalgic and new. Founders: Katie Atherholt and Nick Confrey. This project de...

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Ponder is building an open-source framework for crypto application backends, addressing the painful experience of rolling your own indexer or stitching together tons of out-of-the-box APIs. @typedarray @ponder_sh

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+1 @TrustlessState @BanklessHQ

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9️⃣ @ljin18 Co-Founder of @variantfund Crypto is a failure unless it materially impacts global culture -- Li Jin represents the best of crypto culture She watches the frontier of consumer crypto products, so I watch what she's paying attention to 👀

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Ready for your web3 wallet to become a messaging hub? @ShaneMac of @xmtp_ told our Variant Founder Fellowship cohort how web3 messaging can end the cold start problem for developers, why startups shouldn’t focus on adding new features, and much more:

Shane Mac Has a Message to Deliver (via Your Blockchain Wallet)

XMTP co-founder Shane Mac told the Variant Founder Fellowship cohort how the web3 wallet will become a messaging hub.

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Rocko is focused on simplifying borrowing from lending protocols. “Any loan onchain, we want to facilitate it.” @whatsuptom1 @jasondcamp @0xVinnieJames @rockodefi

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@jchervinsky joined @laurashin for a deep dive into the latest crypto regulations impacting builders today. Covered all crucial developments in this fast-paced marathon discussion!

The US vs. Crypto: Jake Chervinsky on Crypto's Legal and Regulatory Status - Unchained

Despite legal battles over Coinbase, Uniswap, Ethereum, and others, Jake Chervinsky from Variant Fund believes that crypto still has a future in the United States.

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hello world 💸

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Our newsletter issue today is devoted to our first cohort of Founder Fellows. Learn more about these two dozen exciting early-stage crypto projects, meet the founders, and check out the special graduation NFT by @ix_shells . Subscribe @viamirror .

Variant Newsletter: Our Founder Fellows graduate

Get to know the projects and founders from our first fellowship cohort, and check out the graduation NFT by artist Ix Shells.

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Poolshark is a directional AMM for DeFi traders. “There’s a void, or white space, for advanced tooling.” @AlphaK3Y @poolsharklabs

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In true procrastinator nature, many of you came through in the 11th hour… so we’ll be taking the time to review. Expect to hear from us by mid/late May. Thank you all for sharing your project ideas! We can’t wait to build with you.

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Attention: builders! This week we're thrilled to share even more content from our Variant Founder Fellowship speaker series. Lots of infra-focused tips coming. First up: @nickwh8te of @CelestiaOrg on modular blockchains and how he got "modular-pilled."

Getting ‘Modular-Pilled’ with Nick White of Celestia

Celestia Labs COO Nick White tells the Variant Founder Fellowship why he thinks modular blockchains are the future.

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Heimdall Labs is developing a modular and decentralized compliance protocol for crypto projects to implement their own compliance policies onchain, including the prevention of illicit finance. “Blockchains have a compliance problem,” says @pumpernikhil @0xSawa

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Troops is enabling a smoother experience for collective web3 social accounts. “Create an onchain club... accessible to everyone in your troop.” @nicnode @kevincharm @gmTroops

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Shield is building post-hack security products to streamline the web3 incident response process and help companies that have suffered a hack chart a path “back to stability." @isaiahudotong @emanft_ @shield_xyz

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🌀 New piece up 🌀 Tokens are Products, by @jessewldn

Tokens are Products

Building and shipping software products has become a well-understood craft. That craft offers a lens for thinking about tokens.

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Ponder addresses the backend pain points of rolling your own indexer or stitching together out-of-the-box APIs. @ponder_sh @typedarray

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Ponder

Ponder addresses the backend pain points of rolling your own indexer or stitching together out-of-the-box APIs. Founder: Kevin Koste. This project demo was p...

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Heimdall Labs is developing a decentralized protocol for crypto projects to implement their own compliance policies onchain. @pumpernikhil @0xSawa

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day: Heimdall Labs

Heimdall Labs is developing a decentralized protocol for crypto projects to implement their own compliance policies onchain. Founders: Nikhil Raghuveera and ...

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We are looking for talented writers and editors who are fluent in crypto to help on a few special projects. If this is you, send a note and a few works samples to marketing @variant .fund

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Help us build the user-owned web 👇 On the Variant job board, we've listed over 280 open roles across 46 Variant portfolio companies that are shaping the future of web3. If you're looking for your next role in crypto, look no further:

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Poolshark is building advanced tooling for DeFi traders to get the most out of AMMs. @poolsharklabs @alphaK3Y

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Poolshark

Poolshark is building advanced tooling for DeFi traders to get the most out of AMMs. Founder: alphakΞY. This project demo was part of Variant Founder Fellows...

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Future Primitive is innovating on top of the ERC-6551 standard (token-bound accounts) to turn every NFT into a smart contract wallet. @bennygiang calls it “the upgrade to NFTs that has been six years in the waiting.” @futureprimitive

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Thank you so much to everyone who applied to the fellowship—we were blown away by the caliber of applications and are more bullish than ever on the future of crypto. 🫡

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Doormat is building a noncustodial wallet experience for crypto power users that lets you safely manage your keys across all of your devices. “I wanted to build the key management system I wanted to use for my own funds" says @trevorAron @doormat_xyz_

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Tomorrow at 2pm ET: @ljin18 @medhakothari and @danidoesnotxist (founder of @pronounceddrop ) on the future of fashion x crypto 🔥

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Join me & @danidoesnotxist on Spaces this Monday at 2pm ET to discuss the digital fashion revolution! - what is digital fashion and why would people want it? - how does this impact the fashion industry? - what is crypto’s role?

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That’s a wrap on an awesome Demo Day 1, tomorrow we’ll hear from DeFi and infra projects. We’ll be posting the demo videos very soon for all to see! In the meantime, check out some of the great content from this summer's VFF guest speaker sessions:

Variant Founder Fellowship – Variant

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Mezzanine is bringing corporate governance onchain. “We take the best of DAOs and the best of companies.” @gnovak_

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Neynar is a developer platform for web3 social, allowing devs to read, write, and own data from web3 social protocols; “Facebook level tooling in a box” for adding social context to crypto products. @neynarxyz @manan19 @rish_neynar

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Neynar lets devs read, write, and own data from web3 social protocols. @neynarxyz @rish_neynar @manan19

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Neynar

Neynar lets devs read, write, and own data from web3 social protocols. Founders: Rish Mukherji and Manan Patel. This project demo was part of Variant Founder...

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That closes out our first ever Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day(s)! We are so proud of all 23 projects that presented and the hard work our fellows put in all summer. Check back with us next week, when we'll be sharing out each project demo video for those who missed.

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Doormat is a noncustodial key management system for crypto power users. @doormat_xyz_ @trevorAron

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Doormat

Doormat is an easy-to-use key management system for crypto power users. Founder: Trevor Aron. This project demo was part of Variant Founder Fellowship Demo D...

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Troops is forging a smoother path for collective web3 social accounts via onchain clubs. @gmTroops @nicnode @kevincharm

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Troops

Troops is forging a new path for collective web3 social accounts via onchain clubs. Founders: Nico Gallardo and Kevin Tjiam. This project demo was part of Va...

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Mezzanine is combining the benefits of companies with the best aspects of DAOs to bring corporate governance onchain. @gnovak_

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Mezzanine

Mezzanine combines the benefits of companies with the best aspects of DAOs to bring corporate governance onchain. Founder: Graham Novak. This project demo wa...

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Demo Day is virtual and invite-only, but we’ve reserved some spots for the crypto community—apply to attend: Join to hear what fellows have been building in areas like lending, scalability, web3 social, key management, NFT infra, wallets, security & more.

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2. @ljin18 is moderating a conversation about the future of Defi lending with @euler_mab and @functi0nZer0 . March 1. 12.15 pm MT. Main stage. "How Modularity Drives the Next Wave of DeFi Lending"

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gm to early-stage web3 project founders! See some crucial and actionable wisdom here on design and branding from @jfyzhao @slopeagency to our Variant Founder Fellowship cohort:

How to Improve Your Web3 Project’s UI/UX: Slope’s Jeffrey Zhao

Web3 app founders need to think very carefully about UI/UX, says Slope partner Jeffrey Zhao. Watch his presentation to the Variant Founder Fellowship.

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Tune in tomorrow at 2pm ET as @spencernoon @Derekmw23 and @gham1lt0n chat with the team from @NiftyApes about transforming the market for NFT-collateralized lending and borrowing. Set a reminder here:

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You have seen investment announcements before... But have you seen an investment announcement set in a digital art gallery ( @oncyber ) curated by a dad (me) and his 4-year-old? Check out Variant’s latest investment in @bottoproject .

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"Frames and all the excitement around it is like a lightning in a bottle moment for web3 social... People are staying engaged here and it's not because of an airdrop or something like that. It's because of some technical innovation." More from @jessewldn 👇 (or Jesse on

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The idea that I'm most obsessed with right now: ~ Headless Marketplaces ~ Brought on @jessewldn and @antoniogm to chat Frames, Farcaster, Headless Marketplaces, and so much more. This was a refreshing episode. No talk of prices, just a whole lot of optimism for the future.

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Chroma is building a full-stack solution for launching and managing DeFi lending markets. @chromaxyz @JackLongarzo @zerosnacks @arnx813_

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Chroma

Chroma is building a full-stack solution for launching and managing DeFi lending markets. Founders: Jack Longarzo, Tim van Scherpenzeel, and Aaron Xie. This ...

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Pathfinder is building a human-focused interface for discovering and interacting with onchain applications using natural language processing. @PathfinderChat @codyborn @yernab42

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Pathfinder

Pathfinder is building a human-focused interface for discovering and interacting with onchain applications using natural language processing. Founders: Cody ...

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Turbo is making the indie game developer experience easier through a super-easy-to-learn toolkit and marketplace. “Web3 is not adding enough value for most gamers, and devs lack options. Those things need to change.” @jozanza @makegamesfast

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Pathfinder is building a human-focused interface for discovering and interacting with onchain applications that leverages natural language processing to help users express intents. @codyborn @yernab42 @PathfinderChat

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Dawn is building an Ethereum wallet to help people use dapps in the fewest number of taps. @dawn_wallet @koide_dev @tom_waite_

Variant Founder Fellowship Demo Day 2023: Dawn Wallet

Dawn is building a wallet to help people use Ethereum apps in the fewest number of taps. Founders: Isaac Rodriguez and Tom Waite. This project demo was part ...

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HashCurve is a platform for community-managed prediction markets. “We all make predictions every day. On an individual level, these predictions are rather worthless. Collectively, they’re powerful.” @HashCurveKris @HashCurveVik @bskidan @jhjackkim @HashCurveFirm

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Probably Something is building tools to make complex digital ecosystems understandable to anyone, starting with @ProbablyLifebot , which increases new user conversion in gaming, NFTs, and DeFi. @NatDotEth @ProblySomething

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You can find us on @farcaster_xyz as "variant" and hang with us on /variant channel

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