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Deployoooooor investing in & supporting web3 builders & teams. GP @Superscrypt 🏗️ Blog:
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Last week I had the opportunity to lecture a class on 'What is Web3?' at the Singapore University of Technology & Design (
@Sutdsg
) with
@JHLye_
@0xPranav
&
@EW_SuperScrypt
.
What do the youth of today think about crypto? Read on to find out 👇
1. Wen moon? 🚀
After a 1 hour
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More angels than heaven
Just checked out an impressive web3 team's funding deck - these guys have more angels than heaven
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After being stranded on the side of the road something crazy & wonderful happened
A kind samaritan taxi driver Ismail picked me up, I was the 5th person he helped
I also made some new friends: a MMA referee, teacher & engineer from Palestine
We made it home safely Alhamdulilah
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A good read by
@BinanceResearch
on the current state of low float high FDV token launches and their implications.
A crazy stat from this report? There is $155b FDV of token supply unlocking over 2024 to 2030.
TLDR of the article & some thoughts:🧵👇
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It’s now been 1.5 years since I began the journey with
@jadbc0x
&
@BhatiaKishore
to build Superscrypt from scratch to being an active investor and participant in the Web3 ecosystem. It’s been a rollercoaster 2023 to reflect on... 🧵👇
2022 was a tough year. Between the pileups of
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I swear if one more person makes a liquidity joke about Dubai floods…
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So just got into Dubai airport, at immigration where they check your passport & take your photo.
Officer goes “open your eyes bigger”
Like, sorry bruh that’s not possible 😅
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In case you’re wondering, it is sunny and glorious now in Dubai
Weather forecast looks pretty good. Probably some backlog at the airport to clear for delayed flights but looks all systems go if you’re wondering whether to fly in or not 🇦🇪☀️🟢
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Today I reunited with Zaheer. 3 days ago he drove me from ADGM to Dubai through the worst storm in 75 years; dodging trees & 70kmh winds
After 4 hrs our car finally broke down & he helped me flag a taxi, but stayed to safeguard the car overnight
A true champion of Dubai🇦🇪
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Just checked out an impressive web3 team's funding deck - these guys have more angels than heaven
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gm! Are you a founder with a promising idea or project? Will you be in Singapore for Token 2049?
@Superscrypt
is hosting a pitch day with
@LongHashVC
@NGC_Ventures
@HashKeyGroup
&
@FactionVC
.
Come pitch us:
We'd love to see what you're building:
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See you later UAE, so nice to see many old friends and make new ones 🇦🇪 It’s been an adventure for real 🌊🐪
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1/ Today
@orbapp_
announced their $2.3m seed round.
We're excited to back
@nileshrthr
&
@kiptowallet
as they build out a mobile-first social app built on the
@lensprotocol
.
Some thoughts on Orb & web3 Social🧵👇
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Hosting a frames hackathon on a rainy day ☔️ in Singapore 🇸🇬 at the
@Superscrypt
offices - the brainchild of
@Hassan_NY
&
@sgbuidl
@base
@jessepollak
@JHLye_
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Understanding web3 can get pretty confusing at the best of times.
This is especially true of Web3 Social stack where builders have to negotiate multiple primitives to feature-rich create apps.
So, here's our take on the landscape as set out by
@andyisnotandy
&
@jadbc0x
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Next up, Polychain funding a new parallelized EVM competitor named Wonad
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Got my usual KOL selfie
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The team from the first angel cheque I wrote from last cycle has disappeared, rite of passage 🥲
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gmove, excited to back
@rushimanche
as a unnotable angel 👼🏻
Building a layer 2 on ETH with the move language allows builders to write using more secure programming language while accessing greater liquidity
Also from NY🏃🏻♂️HK🏃🏻♂️UAE the hustle on this guy is next level 💯
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Cardano’s brilliance was having a high concentration of Japanese investors
With a capital gains tax of up to 55% they are pretty much forced to diamond hand til there is no capital gains to tax
Fun fact: Japan also has highest concentration of Cardano holders
Coincidence?
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Yesterday Dubai was hit with its worst storm in 75 years. After being stranded for 30 mins a good samaritan saved me
In the car were 4 other souls who made extra room for me. They asked me how old I was & when I told them… this happened…
Life is full of unexpected gifts 🙏🏼🇦🇪
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Last Friday we co-hosted a
@monad_xyz
hangout at the
@Superscrypt
Community Fridays space. Thanks for bringing the crew
@glitch7295
& everyone who joined us!
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Fun times moderating the
@eigenlayer
team (
@html_tina
), builders (
@AlanJamesCurtis
at
@rionetwork
) and investors
@_MinTeo
@
@etherealvc
and Adam Winnick at
@FinalityCap
.
📍🇭🇰
@festival_web3
💬 Restaking - what is it, pros, cons, risks
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Happy Lunar New Year 🐲🐉🧧 may it be a prosperous and happy one for us all!
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The number of dms I've gotten after this post is over 9000
A good way to find which of my frens are hungry for alpha & allo
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Crypto is a microcosm of life on steroids:
- DeFi: the financial system, gambling
- Tokenomics: Economics, monetary supply & demand
- Utility, Volume, TVL: GDP
- Stablecoins, transfers: Payments
- Token Swaps: FX
- NFTs: Art, collectibles, property title
- Communities:
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Every week at
@Superscrypt
we host Open Office Fridays in Singapore, where our portfolio companies, frens and other builders are welcome to come hang and work from our co-working space
Hit us up for the next one!
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ngl started getting some ptsd being surrounded by this much water again 😅
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Will be moderating web3 chads
@html_tina
(
@eigenlayer
) and Alan Curtis (
@RioRestaking
)
@_MinTeo
(
@etherealvc
) & Adam Winnick (
@FinalityCap
) on one of the hottest topics rn: Re-staking
⏱️ 9th April, 1135am
📍HK Web3 Festival
@festival_web3
Get ready to meet Jacob Ko, General Partner
@Superscrypt
at the upcoming Hong Kong
#Web3Festival
on April 9th.
Join Jacob and other visionaries at Stage 1 for valuable insights on
#Restaking
and
#DeFi
.
Tickets:
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Kaito intern rn
AI makes up over 25% of crypto mindshare today.
Exciting to see Kaito now in the top 5 within the sector too!
$TAO and $RNDR leading the way 🫡
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.
@Superscrypt
is excited to co-host an event with
@AlphaLab_Cap
bringing together some of the most exciting builders in web3 infra
Covering topics: LSDfi, restaking, protocol & institutional liquidity ft.
@sreeramkannan
@eigenlayer
and
@SmokeyTheBera
@berachain
as keynotes!
LIQUIDITY IS KING.
Unbelievably excited to co-host an incredible event in Denver with
@AlphaLab_Cap
where we go over one of the hottest topics in Web3 - liquidity! Come learn from top industry leaders across DeFi, TradFi, VC, Market Makers, Infra, Blockchains, and more!
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After 2 hours in Dubai gridlock I have returned to exactly where I started.
Just like the crypto market in 2024.
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Speaking at the
@helix_finance
RWA event during
@token2049
alongside chads
@jamie247
@SaisonCapital
supporting
@jsjaitawat
.
An exciting time for building private credit solutions powered by blockchain.
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In Dubai, safely at the hotel but still feel stranded … very difficult to get an Uber or Careem. Looks like most rides haven’t come back online yet / are still dealing with broken down vehicles
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KOL
@chainyoda
strikes again
We are happy to announce that we have raised $1 Million as part of our seed round, to build a Universal ZK-proof aggregation layer for Ethereum.
The top super angels have invested in our round.
@sandeepnailwal
@koeppelmann
@jdkanani
@anuragarjun
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Bear markets are for builders
@w3_publicsquare
🪙 Tokenomics:
@lisajytan
@BhatiaKishore
🔒 Zk:
@jarrodWattsDev
👾 MEV:
@tkstanczak
@EigenPhi
@blairlmarshall
🏗️ Building for the future:
@BlockdaemonHQ
@andrewvranjes
@token2049
week
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Your
@nodeguardians
Character has completed programming quests, earned items and brought you to the attention of the best blockchain ecosystem teams looking to hire.
Mine is a naked larp that looks like chad
@samnode_
We are not the same.
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Was a lot of fun sharing the stage at
@kbwofficial
with
@belyakov123
of
@Opium_Network
and
@vagrantcrypto
of
@InsurAce_io
to talk backup plans for DeFi risks
Wwow what a great audience 😅
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You know you’re working Crypto when you forget the word ‘day’
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Seed investing into cloud businesses is the new narrative coming out of Token 2049 fr
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Pastries, Privacy, Pasta…
… fun times this morning at the
@Superscrypt
x
@shimacapital
x
@HashKey_Capital
social breakfast.
Couldn’t believe people made it this early for breakfast, thank you for coming! 😅🥐
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Thank you to every one of the 377 teams who submitted an entry for Pitch day 2049!
We've contacted the finalists & the
@Superscrypt
@LongHashVC
@NGC_Ventures
@HashKeyGroup
&
@FactionVC
teams are excited to see you tomorrow!
gm! Are you a founder with a promising idea or project? Will you be in Singapore for Token 2049?
@Superscrypt
is hosting a pitch day with
@LongHashVC
@NGC_Ventures
@HashKeyGroup
&
@FactionVC
.
Come pitch us:
We'd love to see what you're building:
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Had a sit down with
@ManoppoMarco
& the team at Launchy to talk about
@Superscrypt
and the way we look at supporting great web3 builders & founders and investing in them.
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A privilege to be on stage at
@EthereumDenver
with gigachads
@Cecilia_liCC
@Nicolejqzhang
and
@shawnwlim
talking about why Asia is important to web3 and building in it is the way to go 🧵👇🏼
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Polkadot, Cosmos, Axelar? What do these blockchain interoperability stacks have in common and how do they differ?
Excited to host a panel on blockchain Interoperability with gigabrains
@tarunchitra
@sunnya97
@bjornwgnr
&
@sergey_nog
at
@token2049
next week.
Catch
@jacobkxyz
on stage at
#TOKEN2049
Singapore. 🇸🇬
Jacob is a Partner at
@Superscrypt
, an early-stage investment company that invests in and scales innovative builders in Web3.
Don't miss out — register now before ticket prices increase.
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My tradfi arc at the
@ADGlobalMarket
session with Lw3 &
@Coinbase
, with
@JaschaSamadi
(
@greenfield_cap
),
@jake_dwyer
(
@TheFactorCap
) & Rabia Iqbal (
@NuralCapital
)
Of course this was just before gettin’ all disheveled during the 5 hour trip back to Dubai in the megastorm 😅🇦🇪🌊
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The mistake was thinking it was money in the first place
Staked my ETH with Lido, got stETH. Put it in EigenLayer, got EIGEN. Delegated it to EtherFi, got ETHFI. Staked it with EigenDA got.. EIGEN again?
I have no idea where my money is.
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Wake up babe, new
@Superscrypt
article on restaking just dropped
We cover staking & its successor RE-STAKING:
- Pros & cons
- What the ecosystem looks like (
@eigenlayer
@RenzoProtocol
@ether_fi
@KelpDAO
@puffer_finance
etc), &
- What innovations are needed & on the horizon🔗👇
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Was a blast to sit down down with
@mrjasonchoi
on
@theBlockcrunch
's podcast, thanks for having me on!
We discuss:
- Our investment approach and areas of interest
- Onboarding non-web3 users
- Singapore & Hong Kong's crypto scene
Temasek, Singapore's globally renowned investment giant, has spun off a dedicated Web 3 venture arm
@superscrypt
to invest in the next generation of internet technologies
Peer into the mind of
@jacobkxyz
on his thesis on Web 3!
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Polkadot, Cosmos and Axelar walk into a bar…
What happens next? (wrong answers only)
@bjornwgnr
@sunnya97
@tarunchitra
@AxelarIntern
@Polkadot
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Introducing the latest in crypto innovation, Proof of Stack
Oh, you’re a mechanism designer with a PHD in game theory? That’s cool, but how robust are your jenga builds?
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This is probably one of the best written threads I’ve seen break down a dense whitepaper into easy-to-understand concepts. Congrats to the
@eigenlayer
team on the nuanced protocol launch and
@ViktorBunin
for this awesome explainer
A veritable bookmark thirst trap - but for nerds
1/ Congratulations to the
@EigenLayer
team on launching the EIGEN token! This is a *wildly* different design from anything we’ve seen to date so I’d like to share simple explanations of the most important concepts in EIGEN to help everyone grok it. Let’s dive in 👇
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Super excited to be speaking at
@EthereumDenver
on a panel about cracking the Asian market alongside
@shawnwlim
@Nicolejqzhang
&
@Cecilia_liCC
!
Asia has an attractive demographic, accounting for ~40% of the world's GDP and being consumer tech friendly
🎤 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT
🟣 We are THRILLED to welcome
@jacobkxyz
from
@Superscrypt
as an
#ETHDenver2024
speaker!
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Who should crypto teams build for?
There's been a bit of talk about consumer crypto as the new narrative recently. This got me wondering about who web3 teams should build for:
1. Existing crypto natives & degens; or
2. Mass market
The argument against 1. is that building for the
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Uhhhhh so are lifts supposed to be filling with water and stopping every two levels? 🇦🇪
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me rocking up to a crypto conference & speaking to promising founders
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RWAs typically require KYC for customers or KYB for participants.
This nullifies one of the biggest benefits of crypto, which is permissionless global scalability overnight
This doesn’t mean RWA protocols can’t be successful, but they have to do a lot more to scale users IMHO
Why am I bullish on RWAs?
> Less than 0.3% of the entire crypto market cap today
> 40th sub asset class
> The top only has 350mil in TVL
> Rest of the protocols sub 100mil in TVL
> Too little "investable" bluechips (see CEX listings)
> Only 2 listed on Binance
> Pendle isn't
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The more time you spent in web3, the less Normie friends you should have…
Not because we leave them behind, but because we redpill them 💊👾
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Some fantastic work by the team at
@MessariCrypto
covering
@safe
:
- What it is (more than just a multisig; a programmable wallet)
- What it is becoming (a platform / protocol where devs can build UX-improving modules)
- Usage stats & value it secures
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Just wait til you see the angel list for a deal announcement about to drop in 5 minutes
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The allergic reaction most normies have to the term 'NFT' is very strong.
NFTs have become this generation's Nigerian prince scam.
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Thanks
@Cointelegraph
for allowing me to share some of my thoughts on what Web3 founders should focus in 2024 🧵👇
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Supercharge & Katalyze by the Beach with us from 3-6pm today at The Deck Restaurant
A retreat for frens fam & community. If you missed a meeting earlier with all the chaos, come have it here
Hosted by:
@Superscrypt
@_kaitoai
@reforge_vc
@j17capital
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Is that Su Zhu in the background?
Solid turnout with over 50+ founders turning out today at
@ABCDELabs
x
@HotpotDAO888
collab at Bitcoin Asia!
Thank you
@BMANLead
,
@hotpot_dao
,
@JoySong543
and ABCDE team for making this possible 🔥
Also ft. special guests
@zhusu
,
@ConstanceWaing
,
@tmlee
,
@jennyqcheng
and more!
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A couple of snippets from my chat with
@mrjasonchoi
on the
@theBlockcrunch
podcast last week. In it we chat:
- East vs West investing focuses
- Importance of 1st mover advantage (especially for wallets)
- Singapore vs Hong Kong's Web 3 scene & more!
This week,
@jacobkxyz
, Partner at
@superscrypt
, an early stage Web 3 company seeded by Temasek shared with us his thoughts on investing in the space
Highlights from the alpha-packed episode
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gm
AI makes up over 25% of crypto mindshare today.
Exciting to see Kaito now in the top 5 within the sector too!
$TAO and $RNDR leading the way 🫡
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10/ For projects it means being focused on the long-term: building a sustainable product, protocol & ecosystem + tweaking tokenomics to incentivize the right behaviors / acquire the users you need and ultimate create value for your community
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Adoption flows through the path of least resistance.
Excited to be supporting
@PhilippZentner
& the
@lifiprotocol
team on their journey to simplify swaps across bridges & chains and facilitate liquidity across crypto ecosystems 🌉🔀🪙💯
Exciting news!
@lifiprotocol
is happy to announce that we've raised $17.5M in a Series A round co-led by
@coinfund_io
and
@superscrypt
💪
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crypto down so bad it doesn't even feature in a meme about bad financial decisions
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