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Welcome
@hal2001
our new Venture Partner to the Robot family 🦾
Hart brings a wealth of experience as the founder of UMA & Across protocols and will be working closely to assist the projects we invest in.
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Busted!
We like the LOOT, and have begun collecting it.
@lootproject
is randomized adventurer gear generated and stored on chain, and an inflection-point that redefines what NFTs are capable of 🧵
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Over the weekend, astounding NFT purchases hit the chain. But how do holders such as
@FLAMINGODAO
achieve liquidity on their assets?
Securitized NFT baskets are likely how most investors will get exposure and that’s why we invested in
@NFTX_
Punk 2890 bought for 605 ETH ($761,888.57 USD) by 0x24c5eb from 0x6611fe.
#cryptopunks
#ethereum
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Given the increase in $NFTX interest and other forms of NFT securitization, check out our investment thesis from last month — we strongly believe these mechanisms will pave the path forward for increased retail adoption
(And don't forget to follow
@alexgausman
and
@0xChop
!)
Over the weekend, astounding NFT purchases hit the chain. But how do holders such as
@FLAMINGODAO
achieve liquidity on their assets?
Securitized NFT baskets are likely how most investors will get exposure and that’s why we invested in
@NFTX_
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We haven’t updated our website in a year, because the pace of DeFi building has taken full focus 👷🚜🛠
But needless to say, there are some amazing companies we are backing, e.g
@sirenprotocol
,
@feiprotocol
, that we are very proud of and wanted to give a shout-out to ✌️
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.
@robotventures
has transferred 204 ETH to LidoDAO as part of the LDO Treasury Diversification proposal 🤖
A proposal has been submitted to sell 10% of LDO tokens to Paradigm and other strategic partners, directly from Lido DAO's treasury, to further Lido’s stETH as the leading liquid staking solution for Ethereum.
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The team at Gyroscope has been writing industry-leading research on stablecoins since 2018 and their steady, secure, and methodical approach is a major contrast to those seen in the last few years
We're excited to support them on this journey 🫡
Thrilled to announce a $4.5m raise to launch Gyroscope's resilient stablecoin system on Ethereum.
The round was led by
@placeholdervc
and
@galaxyhq
and included investment from
@Maven11Capital
@archetypevc
@robotventures
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We are excited to be a part of the
@NFTX_
community bootstrapped by
@alexgausman
,
@scott_lew_is
, and
@0xChop
and are looking forward to how the protocol will improve the future of finance
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Our first investment is
@coinmine
— makes it dead simple to mine crypto at home or office. We just got ours and are mining Grin, 60 seconds after unboxing!
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We're on the hunt for a senior fund ops pro to join Robot 🤖
If you're into navigating the complexities of fund operations in the crypto space, we want to hear from you. DM us!
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We’ll be in Amsterdam in October — join us there to chat about institutional crypto investments with
@ThetaCapital
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The $ALEX token by
@AlexMasmej
pioneered concepts of social ownership, monetization, and creator-owned value--in a fun, engaging format.
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Really excited about lift-off 🚀
And we're excited to support adventurers like
@jinglanW
and
@karl_dot_tech
on pushing the limits of Ethereum mainnet
We just hired the dopest rockstars in town and they've expedited our timeline. Mainnet will be open to the public in March (more details soon). Read about the people who're making this possible⭐
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InstaDApp creates beautiful, easy to use interfaces, and simplifies the way that users access open finance.
@sowmay_jain
and
@smykjain
are are proving that Ethereum is a globally integrated community, and we are proud to support them as investors.
👏
We're excited to announce that we raised $2.4 Million in our seed round. With the help of this round, we're excited to build the next generation of systems that will allow masses to make the most out of their decentralized assets.
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Thanks 🙏
Always happy to support amazing crypto folks because we share in
@CryptoCobain
’s teen spirit
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Reasons we're excited about Element:
1. Team's prior
@iearnfinance
strategies 👉 farming degen extraordinaires 🧑🌾😈
2. Want to do hard math on-chain, making *significant* improvements to YieldSpace (
@danrobinson
,
@niemerg
, L. Livnev)
3. Vision to expand farming to ETH2 & beyond
1/ Introducing Element
Element brings liquidity to fixed rate income, allowing anyone to buy BTC, USDC, and ETH at a discount. The transaction costs are low and there are no hidden fees or locked terms. We like to say “not locked yield, fixed yield”.
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Introducing Robot Ventures
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The metaverse will have billions of players; but only a few will possess LOOT.
We look forward to helping the community scale, including synthetic LOOT, ticket-models (e.g. each LOOT allows 1000 entrants to a game), and economic design.
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One of the main issues with NFTs is access to liquidity. Many people would love exposure to NFTs but don’t know how to get from start to finish in building a portfolio
Successes such as
@OnRallyRd
and
@StockX
show that securitized solutions to this problem can be powerful
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Much wow —
@fractional_art
vaults hit $275M in TVL thanks to NFD and a Zombie — will the next three weeks continue this exponential growth?
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Rather than being a single provably scarce image or video file, each LOOT is a collection of 8 items, with smart-contract readable properties. The collection is expressed as text, similar to a JSON array that contains rich properties & metadata.
@scottjenson
@worm_emoji
@zoink
@lootproject
Most NFTs are an “image”.
What sets LOOT apart is that there are smart-contract readable parameters for each of the inventory slots, so that games and experiences can be built on top.
Imagine logging into World of Warcraft with your LOOT—which is different from everyone else’s.
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We believe that over time, the majority of content will be blockchain-accessible; that the lines between individual, creator, and business will blur; and that Alex is uniquely positioned to build towards this future.
@tryShowtime
is that ambition.
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An ideal NFT index, like a well-constructed hedge fund, adeptly balances LP liquidity needs with the capital reqs. of the highest earning assets. While this model will first be tested with art & other Veblen goods, it is applicable to legacy financial instruments (e.g. mortgages)
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Excited to join the mad AMM scientists
@osmolabs
🧑🏾🔬🧪🧪
Also participating were a set of amazing funds & angels including
@robotventures
@nascentxyz
, Ethereal,
@Figment_io
@stablekwon
@hasufl
and many more amazing partners whose expertise and mentorship will help achieve the ambitious roadmap ahead.
And now... back to building 🧪
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Congrats to
@Leorzhang
,
@AutomataEmily
, and the rest of the Alkimiya team on launch!
gm anon
Alkimiya is building permissionless capital markets for blockspace, and we are launching on
@avalancheavax
Mainnet today 🎉🎉
Here's what you need to know 👇
(1/16)
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@bitski
is a necessary experiment to (re)imagine how we interact with blockchains. They remove the friction and difficulty of wallet management, while preserving security and increasing portability.
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What seems like fun and games right now with NFTs could evolve into a series of stronger financial mechanisms for illiquid asset productivity. As Uniswap illustrated, servicing the long-tail of assets can be a net positive for all parties. But what about the long-tail of funds?
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Excited to support Axelar, who is bringing their unique academic expertise to building cross-chain bridges
Blockchain interoperability protocol Axelar raises $25 million in Series A funding (via
@Yogita_Khatri5
)
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Stats, images, and other functionality are intentionally omitted for others to interpret.
This allows LOOT to be an open, composable building block in whatever ecosystem the community decides to build; like Ethereum, while most NFTs look like
#Bitcoin
.
This is a brilliant idea, and nails the spirit of composability.
A successful ecosystem likely requires way more bags (maybe 100k-1M), but hopefully this serves as a meta verse proof of concept ⚔️
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Robot Ventures coming to an iPhone case near you 🤖
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Second Law of Thermodynamics: Entropy is going up 🎲🎲🎲
Entropy is thrilled to announce that we've raised an
✨𝒾 𝓂 𝓂 𝒶 𝒸 𝓊 𝓁 𝒶 𝓉 𝑒✨$25M Seed round led by
@a16z
!
Read on for more👇
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Last summer, yield farming helped new protocols like Sushi & YFI bootstrap from protocols with larger market caps like Compound, Aave, and UMA;
LOOT does this for future MMORPGs and metaverse applications.
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We're excited to support
@Vauld_
, which is scaling crypto finance internationally.
NEW: India-focused lending platform
@Vauld_
raised $2 million in a round led by
@PanteraCapital
to expand its crypto banking platform.
@doreenjwang
reports
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Extremely excited that the
@pointbankingapp
card arrived in the mail today. Its a bank account with a high interest rate (1.90% currently) and 2-3x Points on popular merchants like Lyft, Uber, Netflix, etc. delivered through a beautiful mobile app.
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Moreover, individual NFTs can’t be used as collateral for a loan in any efficient manner. Securitization in the art market is necessary for art-backed collateralized lending to work as smoothly as
@compoundfinance
It’s also a $20-25B market (Deloitte)
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Futureswap is boldly developing transparent, non-custodial leveraged products.
Centralized platforms like BitMEX are no match--crypto traders will benefit.
Proud to support
@futureswapx
on their journey 📈
Futureswap is LIVE on Ethereum!!! Trade 20x Perpetual Futures Now!!
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Currently: NFTs only work for Veblen goods — goods whose demand increases with price (e.g. Supreme) — this is a function of the auction mechanisms used by NFT sellers.
Most people don’t want the hassle of exposure via auctions, which requires research and market monitoring 👀
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The advent of crypto-only tools like flash loans (e.g. 0 duration liens) gives tokenized assets superpowers that their equity counterparts don’t have. Need to refinance loans within a REIT? Use an
@Instadapp
debt swap to swap collateral for a loan in NYC with one in Singapore
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In ‘17-’18, we were promised real world assets on-chain, yet most of what we saw was disappointing. This was because there was nothing you could do with a security token that you couldn’t do with an equity instrument. Has this changed in 2020?
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The MEV auction design space will grow dramatically over the next few years — amazing to have people like
@BPIV400
and
@0xMagmar
join the space — they went from winning best paper at EC to working on bringing novel mechanism ideas from academia to irl crypto
And we're experimenting with lots of other products: on-chain auctions, in-protocol arbitrage, and other exciting methods for converting MEV to protocol revenue.
8/
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These marketplaces and
@iearnfinance
demonstrate that a simple interface for new users/investors to access markets with technical barriers to entry can expand network usage and improve economies of scale
Passive investment vehicles often have great liquidity network effects
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Web 2 had creative bootstrapping for MMORPGs in the past — e.g. Minecraft & Roblox — but LOOT takes it to another level with everything from synthetics to forks that utilize its initial distribution to grow.
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In crypto, there’s a chance to refine these vehicles to make the esoterica of the field more accessible. While art funds have notoriously difficult withdrawal conditions, NFT indices make it easier for smaller investors to participate in illiquid vehicles
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Out of the ashes arises a …
1/ Phoenix is the first limit order book DEX that is fully on-chain, non-custodial, atomically composable, and crankless.
We’re excited to announce Phoenix’s beta launch, the open-sourcing of the Phoenix program, and Phoenix's bug bounty initiative.
🔥🦅
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We're proud to support
@AlexMasmej
and
@Alex_Kilkka
as they build Showtime 🎉
Stoked to announce
@tryShowtime
pre-seed round led by
@dragonfly_cap
w/
@robotventures
@Bo11inger
& angels incl.
@Melt_Dem
@balajis
@minal_hasan
@parisrouz
@AndrewSteinwold
!
On Showtime, creators make money from *their* content.
#NFT
Thread + we're hiring
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Excited to support
@MarkLurie
and Abe Othman as they build out Clipper!
If Othman’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he wrote seminal academic papers on automated market makers in 2010-2013 (incl. work cited in the Uniswap V3 whitepaper)
Today, we're proud to announce our $21M raise for the first
#DEX
that caters to retail traders.
Excited to be working with our lead investor
@Polychain
and other world-class supporters!
1/
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P.S. We've been USDC only since inception
It is obvious that the current angel investing system — Docusigns and Hellosigns, Clerkys and Cartas, contracts and valuations, emails and wires — will all go on-chain.
Every aspect is simplified if you can simply send USDC to an ENS address and get digital assets back.
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2022: ChatGPT
2023: Build your own ChatGPT
Introducing OpenChatKit. A powerful, open-source base to create chatbots for various applications. Details in 🧵
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The ability to comfortably accept and transact in digital assets results from the ability to manage risk & limit fraud.
@elementus_io
is building the tools for crypto to become a larger part of our lives, and we're proud to support their mission.
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Exciting new research on future directions in privacy preserving programming languages from
@AleoHQ
👀
[New] Leo: A Programming Language for Formally Verified, Zero-Knowledge Applications (Collin Chin and Howard Wu and Raymond Chu and Alessandro Coglio and Eric McCarthy and Eric Smith)
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Congrats to
@sall
,
@_blakewest
, and the rest of the Goldfinch team on their growth, improved funding model (see the paper!), and raise!
DeFi's globally accessible interest rates + Goldfinch = fixing the mistakes of microfinance's past
/0 We're thrilled to announce 1.) We have raised $11M led by
@a16z
crypto, 2.) We're announcing our Backer Program, and 3.) We can now point to the whitepaper that serves as the basis for the protocol. Thread 👇
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Robot Ventures is proud to be an investor and supporter of
@AmpleforthOrg
during their launch! Learn about $AMPL, a synthetic commodity:
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Excited to support Jet Protocol as they bring one of the most experienced DeFi development teams to the Solana Ecosystem
1/3 The ground crew has given us the the OK for take-off! Jet Protocol is happy to announce that we have closed a $4.8 million seed finance round and all systems are go!
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Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in fintech / crypto companies with big ambitions and contrarian worldviews, by
@rleshner
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Excited to support Alkimiya on their journey to make ETH hash power derivatives a liquid and viable market in the coming years
Incredibly excited to introduce
@alkimiya_io
, a permissionless protocol for hashpower contracts and hashpower-backed structured products.
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🤫
@SuccinctLabs
0xadfc19589f7408b794946b1dbbe2d906aa223744710be9b2a0e368342433115d00830c492fe1bae0e45be6cb3355ba0cf3bd9bee3cf7446fa3a2d469b8d3304d
0x8e8db5e6c320800e7bc5f782230d5c5b17e254b322637f2b48c7291596b30b907fae3e1c29f1912f92586390786626d1c49c2f48ba7fe9b1dd33f2a9f6dbb958
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DMs open now 🫡
We're on the hunt for a senior fund ops pro to join Robot 🤖
If you're into navigating the complexities of fund operations in the crypto space, we want to hear from you. DM us!
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👀👀👀👀
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Exciting to see vertically integrated, consumer-facing DeFi apps coming to market! Awesome work by
@d0h0k1
and team
📣
@Mirror_Wallet
, the fully non-custodial mobile wallet built on
@mirror_protocol
, is now open source!!
🔥🛠🔥
We’re incredibly proud to contribute to the development of Mirror. Can’t wait to see more awesome products from the community!💪⚙️🚀
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Congrats to our friends at
@BainCapCrypto
on their launch!
1/ I’m thrilled to officially announce the launch of
@BainCapCrypto
and our first $560M venture fund. We are a dedicated team of investors, hackers, and researchers focused exclusively on supporting crypto founders and builders from seed through growth.
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👀👀👀
We have open sourced HyperPlonk!
We are glad to also be collaborating with the Ethereum Foundation on integrating HyperPlonk with their Halo2 library and front end.
Read more here 👇
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@AltcoinPsycho
👋 there's an ever growing space of founder-led investors like us and every cycle brings a better, stronger crop
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🤖🎨
Introducing Open Studio by Cosigned — a new home for collaborative media projects.
Use generative AI to create and contribute content to a project (e.g. film, comic, or book) that you then co-own as NFTs.
More details below 👇
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This was 100% the best meme, highly underappreciated
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🐐🐐🐐
For nearly two years, we've built our zkEVM in the open alongside
@PrivacyScaling
and other contributors, and today, we're taking the next step to Goerli, the final stage before mainnet.
Our testnet on Goerli is 100% permissionless.
Here are the details:
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The most important tool for usability and adoption in crypto gets even better 🫡
1/ Privy is now available for everyone!
After 15 months, 2.5M users onboarded, 902 SDK releases and 5 audits, we're opening up so anyone can sign up to Privy
We're excited to serve the next generation of crypto apps by making it seamless for them to onboard and engage everyone
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Most Americans currently have a fundamentally flawed banking experience: ~no interest, no rewards, and a terrible user experience.
We're proud to be investors in
@patrickmro_
and the Point team-they're going to change that.
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🫡 also means “shipping”
Congrats
@musalbas
,
@nickwh8te
, and the rest of the Celestia team!
Launching the new Celestia “Mamaki” testnet and introducing the Alpha Data Availability API! 🍵🧵
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💙💙💙
Custom token bridging is now supported on an Optimistic Ethereum gateway near you!
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👀👀👀
We’ve been heads down building over the last few months and will begin sharing LOTS of exciting updates starting this week including:
• features releases
• integration updates
• private beta partner announcements
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👀👀👀
Yesterday
@LensProtocol
announced the CultivatorDAO (👩🌾,👨🌾) to establish community driven content curation for Trust & Safety. Going to share our vision below on how we see the web3 social stack evolve 🧵
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Excited to see some great CFMM research go live 💪
It's time.
We're opening a beta preview for 24 hours on Monday, May 8th.
Come trade $ARB with the best rates in DeFi.
Retweet and leave your address below to get access. 👇
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We’re happy to share that the Research Day videos are finally live!
Thank you again to all of the incredible speakers and our amazing co-hosts:
@CelestiaOrg
@__geometry__
@robotventures
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