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🚀 Today, @moshaikh @neilhar @alextang & I launch Maximum Frequency Ventures (MFV) - a $50M operator-led crypto company-creation engine and venture fund. This is personal for me. I’ve spent my career moving between the discipline of institutions and the chaos of startups,
.@moshaikh, the cofounder of the well-known blockchain development company Aptos Labs, announced that he and three former colleagues had raised $50 million for a new venture fund, Maximum Frequency Ventures, focused on crypto companies.
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Back at it on the conference circuit after a short hiatus “the crown is up for the taking”
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Thanks for having me @katana @GSR_io @cj_gsr @Auros_global Was a shorter session than I’d like 🥹 but was good fun anyway.
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Lmao doing a meeting while in a store shopping and wearing other people clothes 🤣
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Just remembered this but when BTC and all the alts dumped the day before, options vol spiked so hard that 80% cash-secured puts were yielding near triple-digit APYs. I had a quote but missed execution because I was stuck in Tokyo meetings all day. But honestly - most people
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The CT timeline hasn’t been particularly cheery lately. Starting the year on the ground across Asia gave us space to recalibrate - less reacting, more listening. What we saw were founders focused on shipping and outcomes, which ties in nicely where periods like this tend to
This letter was originally written for MFV’s limited partners and is shared in adapted form to give prospective partners a clearer view into how we think and operate. MFV Partners, As we’re writing this note, we’re sitting in East Asia. We’ve been spending time between New York
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Proud to share MFV’s investment into Bluff, leaning into our thesis that speculation drives innovation Why did MFV invest? Crypto casinos sit within the cross section of speculation, infrastructure, payments, trust and so many concepts blockchains were meant to solve. It is also
BLUFF has raised $21M, led by @1kxnetwork. We’re building the next-gen platform for online betting - faster, bigger, and made for the internet. We’re here to be #1.
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The uncomfortable truth behind all of these is that traditional IP is already breaking at the character layer. Look at Dragon Ball. Rights were fragmented across manga, anime, games, and licensing even before Akira Toriyama passed. Now, there’s no clear creative authority,
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Not wrong, but another take - DeFi is maturing; I think more protocols will surface in which it looks boring to degens because its sans the 1000x or even 1000000x opportunities, but will be able to provide much more sustainable yields, solve real user (retail & insti) problems.
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This. 1/ See my last tweet. Same logic applies to every L1, L2, app, and project out there. Swap the names, change the ticker - nothing really changes. 2/ This is why CT feels completely stygian, while the real world feels… fine. Crypto’s having its Wall Street (feels like I
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Your job as an investor, first and foremost, is capital preservation Mean reversion is real Btw there are great deals in every phase of the market cycle (bull and bear) https://t.co/tXkVaDXfED
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The historical relationship between the S&P 500 forward P/E ratio and subsequent 10-year annualized returns shows that investors should expect...
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So many pieces missing from Web 3 as an industry, and this is why its so difficult to build a successful company (anywhere really, not just crypto). In Chinese - there's this saying 天时地利人和, but people forget the 人 (people) in this example refers to not just the founder -
If you want to understand what storytelling actually means in marketing, watch this snipped from the goat:
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unlock the next level of gaming with @NVIDIAGFN and moonshot. experience it firsthand at chulalongkorn university. 13 dec - 19 dec
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Debated long and hard with the team on launch, announcement and marketing strategy. In the end, conviction won. This product is built to compete head-on with the best traditional gaming hardware, so the focus starts where the real gamers are - retail, esports and the core gaming
after months of waiting, our controllers are here. be the first to try them at our booth in Chulalongkorn University.
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I know a team building something here, ready for launch ~Q1'26? Keep your eyes out and assets ready😎
Our @a16zcrypto team’s big ideas for 2026 are out today! I write about how traditional wealth management services are becoming more accessible to all investors. Check it out, along with the other big ideas, here:
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Amazing news for all of us here in Asia. For what it’s worth, we’ve @mf__xyz always believed Asia isn’t just a market, it’s the center of gravity for the next adoption cycle. Cool to see more folks really committing to the party. 😎 Same thing where we're helping our founders in
I'm honored to share that I will be joining @a16zcrypto as Head of APAC go-to-market. a16z crypto backs exceptional founders, providing not just capital but also hands-on support to help them grow into transformative companies. Now, a16z crypto is opening an office in Seoul and
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