Kintsu is thrilled to announce our $4M seed round, led by @CastleIslandVC! We're building liquid staking on Monad to help catalyze the entire DeFi ecosystem 💜

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3/3 Our excitement about delta is amplified by the involvement of @riabhutoria, Operating Partner at Castle Island Ventures, and delta’s COO We look forward to supporting Ria, Ole, Antonis, Myles, and the entire Delta team as they turn this vision into reality!

2/3 On delta, rollup and appchain builders can customize their local environment while sharing state via the decentralized base layer, allowing them to tap into a global set of users and assets

1/3 We are excited to announce our investment in @deltadotnetwork today delta is taking a fundamentally new approach to designing blockchains that dissolves the trade-off between sovereignty and native interoperability

🚀 We’re excited to announce a major milestone — we’ve raised $75M to take crypto-backed lending to the next level! We’re setting a new benchmark for security, trust and concierge customer service for both individuals and institutions in crypto backed lending. This significant

And @intern may be viewed as a master of memes, but he’s also Boston royalty (9/8)

Keone Hon, James Hunsaker, Eunice Giarta, and the rest of the Monad team make up one of the strongest protocol teams we've ever encountered. We grow continually more bullish on their ability to execute. (8/8)

Overall, crypto users benefit from a better on-chain experience (lower cost, faster, new offerings), and apps can build out otherwise infeasible products, profitably 🤝. (7/8)

This makes Monad an attractive place for builders and applications to deploy, which stands to create a flywheel of high-quality apps and products in the Monad ecosystem. (6/8)

Not only are we bullish on these two areas as crypto use cases, but they stand to be some of the best businesses in crypto for applications because of their high volumes. Low chain costs = higher volume = more fees for applications, even when app fees are kept low (1-5bps). (5/8)

Monad will power high-octane use cases that struggle to exist in today's EVM. Low-fee, efficient stablecoin transfers and high-fidelity trading are two categories that become feasible in a parallelized EVM world. (4/8)

Layer 2's like Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base have long been discussed as scaling solutions for Ethereum. However, we believe that L2s are nevertheless dependent on the scalability of their underlying L1. Monad offers a more optimal base layer for future L2's. (3/8)

Monad is a new layer 1 blockchain that introduces parallel execution to the EVM. This will bring superior cost and speed relative to existing EVM L1's. (2/8)

Castle Island Ventures is thrilled to back @monad_xyz in its latest $225M funding round. Here's why we're excited about Monad. (1/8)

🚨🚨🚨 SPECIAL LIVE EVENT🚨🚨🚨 Thurs Nov 9, 6pm @MattWalshInBos & @nic__carter team up w @intangiblecoins for a very special LIVE recording of On The Brink x Galaxy Brains ~only~ at PubKey We're expecting a packed house so make sure to RSVP 👇 🧡🍻🙏 https://t.co/sY35N9x6pL

Castle Island Ventures: Weekly Round-Up: 1/13/2023

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