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Largest onchain endowment for human creativity. Investing in the frontier of art, science, and technology.
Human Creativity
Joined May 2015
🎉Congratulations to Season 4 Creators! $852,145 awarded to 160 amazing projects. 🥇 1st - @iamsvenh raised $159,726. 🥈 2nd - @ClaudiaBuenoArt raised $119,160. 🥉 3rd - @futuronativo raised $108,021. ↓ Submissions now open for Season 5.
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The Wallet Meta When crypto and wallets hit scale, users show up on day one with money connected to your app–just two clicks away from any purchase. The friction to commit to monthly payments is the same. But the friction to make a purchase, especially a small one, is now tiny.
The next wave of crypto adoption will come from in-app wallets. This means it won't be your everyday crypto degen who's money we see come onchain. trillions anon
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Everyone is trying to be more liquid. Trade anything. Bet on everything. Guaranteed selling via AMMs and bonding curves. 24/7 markets. But there is an ocean of product ideas for builders who do the opposite. Intentional friction. More holding. And more long term value.
Social media made creators go viral. @baseapp will make them go liquid.
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Life is short, money is fickle, and community can last only if we solve Ethereum's core challenge: Human Coordination! Join me at Schelling Point (@EFDevcon x @gitcoin) for DAO Stewardship in Practice—no theories, but operational experience fueled by @UnlockProtocol & @alana_xyz
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And this only happens once we stop building consumer apps around finance
crypto wins when adoption decorrelates from price action
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Read the full essay. https://t.co/jS61wXvybu
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How might we reimagine crypto not as finance tech but game tech
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Crypto is more than finance tech. It’s game tech that forgot it was a game. Part 2 of our Default Game series by @natvancleve explores how to build crypto apps that feel like play—not speculation. 🔗 link below
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There are millions of crypto currencies. Most make no sense as money. But as game currencies? Suddenly it all clicks. Default Game: Part 2, how to reimagine crypto not as finance tech but game tech. New essay from @natvancleve.👇 link
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Great analysis by Haseeb. Another angle is that airdrops are just one of a long list of crypto “cargo cults.” Outside of DeFi, Bitcoin, and payments - there is a deep confusion about how crypto apps should be built. And as a result many builders blindly copy each other. In
Late to this, but as a VC, here’s my perspective on airdrop farming: Farmers are obviously not useful to projects. @Cobie is right that as a VC, I ignore farming activity. I’m extremely skeptical of easily farmed metrics, and we always dig into the data to try to identify
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a majority of Americans want pro social outcomes like better climate, stronger communities, and shared prosperity. few believe government can deliver them. the next frontier is building networks that can.
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big goal reached!
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Or you can continue running permissionless, your way on, omnichain, on open-source and openly-accounted-for @juiceboxETH. Choose your dependencies wisely.
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This is either the world’s most ambitious fundraising campaign or a very public mental breakdown. TBD. $6M → 19 days.
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