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Investing @variantfund 🛜 | Alum @penn
NYC
Joined August 2021
Tangent: The em-dash "—" is a brilliant punctuation mark I added to my arsenal after reading a "Prayer for Owen Meany" that AI has since taken over. I will not stop using it.
Crypto is inherently social—exemplified by the underlying economy that trades memecoins. If you’re building “Trench Technology”, I’d love to chat!
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Crypto is inherently social—exemplified by the underlying economy that trades memecoins. If you’re building “Trench Technology”, I’d love to chat!
WORK IN PROGRESS Ep 6 is on social trading. The question: is trading really a new form of entertainment and social status or do the incentives break when you can dump on your followers? Discussed with @alanadlevin @dbarabander and @firstc0in
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Alana highlights that the rise of issuance protocols has led to an unprecedented growth in fungible tokens, yet CEX listings mark the top. This leads to CEX user migration to DEXs. The open question is which trench technology platform will absorb these users and retain them…
Excited to publish my Crypto Trends Report for 2025! It frames crypto’s growth as a story of 3 compounding s-curves: asset creation, asset accumulation, and asset utilization The report applies this lens across five key thematic areas – macro, stablecoins, centralized
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FWIW London won best seed rounds of 2023 and 2024 with <redacted> and <redacted>
In your opinion, which country/city has been the most successful launchpad for crypto companies?
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In your opinion, which country/city has been the most successful launchpad for crypto companies?
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FAQs: I am now based in NYC! I am not going to Devconnect :/
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Follow these accounts if you’re not already: @jessewldn @dbarabander @alanadlevin @JackLongarzo @jphackworth42 @jchervinsky @NinaSuthers @salahghazzal @calebshough @tomd_xyz And stay tuned for more content from me!
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At Variant, I’ll be spending my time focusing on the frontier of consumer, infrastructure, and new crypto categories.. If you, your friends, or your grandma are taking the leap to become a founder in the space, I would love to meet! My DMs are open 📬
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Like most, my journey in crypto has been well beyond the beaten path. Without the support and guidance from the friends I made along the way, I might still be trading NFTs in my mom’s basement. Thank you to: @kinaumov @chundamccain for taking a chance on me to build
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So when Alana recommended I speak to @jessewldn and @dbarabander it’s needless to say I jumped on the opportunity.
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I first met @AlanaDLevin three years ago at the @PennBlockchain conference. I left the coffee deeply impressed by her intellect and understanding of the market, and since then, we’ve grown to be close friends.
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Variant has consistently stood out not only as a thought leader, not only as a steward for early-stage founders in their portfolio, but as a team of kind and smart people, policy experts, and friends to everyone in crypto.
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The power law in clear display.
Note: Fees generated via issuance platforms are roughly equivalent to fees generated by trading terminals/bots this year (~$1b per category). @AxiomExchange and @pumpdotfun make up 80% of this combined market.
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Note: Fees generated via issuance platforms are roughly equivalent to fees generated by trading terminals/bots this year (~$1b per category). @AxiomExchange and @pumpdotfun make up 80% of this combined market.
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Axiom's dominance can be taken over by either: (a) @pumpdotfun continuing to win new users as they vertically integrate (b) new consumer-facing apps like @tryfomo (c) a completely new social experience that changes how the mmo is played
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