Sam Rosenblum
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investing in crypto @haunventures ; previously @coinbase , @polychain
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“I actually prepared a slide deck about this many years ago”
-
@balajis
on literally any topic
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Excited to unveil Haun Ventures to the world! We’re backing the next generation of web3 / crypto founders with a $500M early stage fund and $1B growth fund
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I’m proud to share that
@HaunVentures
is leading a $50M funding round in
@ourzora
, one of web3’s most important protocols. This is the first deal we’ve led in our firm's history and I can't imagine a more fitting group for the distinction.
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1/ Thrilled to be part of the world class team
@katie_haun
has brought together as a Partner and deal team lead at her new firm
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I’m proud to announce
@HaunVentures
has led the $5M Seed round for
@AgoraGovernance
, with participation from
@seedclubhq
,
@cbventures
,
@sinahab
,
@balajis
,
@CrediblyNeutral
,
@packyM
,
@TimBeiko
,
@dwr
,
@evabeylin
,
@will__price
,
@liamihorne
,
@hasufl
, and more.
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1/ We’re building a group of venture contributors who bring unique skill sets and perspectives to working with projects in our portfolio at any stage. Today, I’m thrilled to announce that
@ahnchrisj
is joining
@HaunVentures
as a partner on our deal team.
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Proud to be backing
@MoonwellDeFi
@LukeYoungblood
@CryptoSki5
as they set out on their journey to unlock liquidity in the
@MoonbeamNetwork
ecosystem and beyond
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when i moved to SF in 2013, you bought BTC by meeting up with strangers irl and swapping cash for usb drives.
today, Coinbase has the same market cap as PayPal.
10 year overnight success, just like
@brian_armstrong
expected.
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I’ve known
@brxckinridge
since he began his career at Coinbase in 2018 and have seen him develop over the years as an engineer, product leader, and investor.
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I’m proud to announce that
@haunventures
is leading a funding round to diversify the
@eulerfinance
DAO treasury
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"Brian was right"
@brian_armstrong
has talked for the last decade about being a "ten year overnight success" and we should all thank our lucky stars he's had the fortitude to do things the hard (responsible) way all along.
Since the founding of Coinbase back in 2012 we have taken a long-term view. I knew we needed to embrace compliance to become a generational company that stood the test of time. We got the licenses, hired the compliance and legal teams, and made it clear our brand was about trust
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The early Coinbase team had unusually high talent density that allowed us to punch far above our weight class. Glad to see this today from Brian.
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Never in my life have I seen such positive, encouraging replies to a
@brian_armstrong
tweet storm
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Zora is your favorite crypto project’s favorite crypto project. Many of the most fun and interesting web3 communities are already built with Zora’s open and permissionless protocol and tooling. Excited for the world to see what’s next!
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6/ We’ll be building out the deal team over the coming months – if you are excited to back the best founders in the space, please reach out!
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More and more convinced the theme of 2024 will be "what was old is new again."
Global payouts for remote + micro jobs, tipping, money streaming all coming in hot.
If you're working on something we tried to shoehorn onto Bitcoin in 2014 hit me up!
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Seeing old friends revisiting the original use cases of 2014 era crypto, now with better tech.
What was old is new again.
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2/ We want to get crypto into the hands of 1B users by 2025, and to get there, we’re investing at each layer of the crypto / web3 tech stack and backing companies, DAOs, and protocols across the early and acceleration stages
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love to see it!!
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Progressing from New Plateaus
As the saying goes: most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade. As 2023 comes to a close, I thought it’d be fun to share some reflections on the evolution of the crypto ecosystem
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1/ It’s said that the simple yet difficult path to winning in investing is to be both contrarian and right. In crypto, you get to be contrarian every 2-4 years just by maintaining course. So how do you increase your odds of being right?
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Excited to announce today's *global* launch of Coinbase Commerce - merchants around the world can now easily accept Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin payments via
@CommerceCB
💰🤑💰
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5/ I’ve been incredibly fortunate to get to work with some of the most exceptional people in crypto over the last 8 years and am fired up to now work alongside
@katie_haun
@RachaelRad
@chrislehane
@TomicahTD
@jamesrathmell
@NickPacilio
and Kindra Mason
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A glimpse into the future of GDAX 🙌🏼
Announcing the GDAX Digital Asset Framework—the factors we evaluate when considering which assets to support on GDAX
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Excited to back
@natemodi
@kmatthews812
and team on their mission to empower creators and supercharge fan communities with web3 tools
Today we’re launching Highlight, an end-to-end toolkit for you to bring web3 community membership and rewards to your fanbase, no crypto experience required 👇
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Crypto winter: when high conviction builders keep building and high conviction investors keep investing
VC funding for crypto startups is down 50% this quarter, according to data from
@crunchbase
. I spoke with
@sjrosenblum
from
@HaunVentures
and
@katekiewel
about the downturn and what types of companies are still thriving:
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Innovation in web2 is throttled by an innovator's dilemma where networks can only be used in ways that align with the values of the network operator
Innovation in crypto is throttled by a set of computer science and interface problems being actively solved by the brightest minds
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3/ Crypto has reached a critical turning point, where we’re beginning to see impact beyond the echo chamber of tech enthusiasts and early adopters
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What a crew
Was great to get some
@HaunVentures
founders, LPs, and (newly expanded) team together in SF -- and look at all the current and former
@coinbase
people in the same corner.
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I’ve not encountered many people as genuinely curious and eager to learn and I can’t wait to see the impact he has on the ecosystem from his new post. Could not be more stoked to add him to the team.
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4/ I spoke with
@meliarobin
about how
@katie_haun
, myself, and the team are approaching filling out our ranks and why every firm win will be a team win.
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Every once in a while, a new paradigm justifies new rules – a job for Congress, not the SEC
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The merge was a historic accomplishment for the Ethereum community and a reminder of the unique power of financial incentives at the protocol level.
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4/ To get to 1B users, we’ll look to back infrastructure breakthroughs to support massive scale increases, expansion of existing categories to mass market user bases, and the entrance of entirely new addressable markets and user segments
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Long time coming 👏🏼🇬🇧🙏🏼
Starting today, Coinbase customers in the UK will be able to seamlessly move GBP in and out of their accounts using the Faster Payments service. In most cases, this will mean almost instant access to funds. 🇬🇧
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a fun side effect of every crypto cycle (when coin prices pump and VC funding flows freely) is the wave of people leaving trad jobs to go full time crypto
the current trend of ‘enthusiastic discord member’ → ‘full time employee / contributor’ is just so awesome
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Later jira!
@linear_app
looking good 😍
We’re excited to introduce: Linear, the issue tracking tool you'll enjoy using. Our vision is to create more enjoyable and efficient way to manage software development.
Sign up for early access at:
Read our announcement on Medium
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Fired up for the launch of Coinbase Asset Management and Index - the start of something big, spearheaded by
@bramanathan
no less!
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Excited to finally announce our partnership with BTMU. Big things to come in Japan and globally!
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We’re entering 2024 with an order of magnitude more builders in the crypto ecosystem than a decade ago.
Newcomers in the year ahead will start from a significantly more robust foundation than that of prior cycles.
Lower barriers to entry and higher leverage per person are a
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5/ Chris’s experience at GitHub, his deep interest in community building, and his commitment to crypto made him a no-brainer for our team. Can’t wait for you all to get to know him. Welcome Chris!!
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"Balaji was right"
- us in 2030 when network states achieve diplomatic recognition
How do we get the first network state with diplomatic recognition? We’ll need a pipeline of hundreds, perhaps thousands of startup societies.
Fortunately, there are already 20+ such societies today. So we set up a little dashboard to track them:
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A lot has changed over the last week, but the tech hasn't
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creators and the communities forming around them **building wealth together** through shared time, attention, and passion
love to see
@matt__alston
and
@MelissaZhang13
delivering this new reality with
@bonfire_tweets
🔥
gm.
Web3 introduced digital ownership to the internet, opening the floodgates for creators to capture the value they create.
Today, we’re excited to unveil Bonfire, a platform that unlocks the power of ownership for online communities.
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Weaponizing the banking industry against innovation is the exact opposite direction America should head in. Whether or not the country will be a hub for an entire industry should not be left to unelected officials.
Great post from
@katie_haun
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How many history book pages will it take to explain this week?
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Just went on my first ever Disneyland family vacation and now Disney’s market cap ($260B) feels way too low
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2024 may be the year where the mainstream comes to terms with the fact that most onchain assets are not “cryptocurrencies” and most NFTs are not 10k PFPs.
@ourZORA
will help onboard a new cohort of users whose first impression of crypto is new forms of ownership, not currency.
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fantastic news for the entire ecosystem. can’t wait to see what comes out of unit 410
big congrats
@rwitoff
@emiliemc
@ShanAggarwal
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Simple yet powerful application, uniquely enabled by crypto: platformless crowd-funding of discrete tasks.
Excited to start seeing more of this.
New Bountycaster feature:
We added the ability to crowdfund bounties (add funds to another person's bounty), which we feel is uniquely enabled by bounties + Farcaster
This is great for putting up bounties for public goods and things that will benefit a wider community 🙌
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Diogo is a rare talent and special founder who has built one of the most important companies in crypto through thick and thin.
Excited to have him join us
@HaunVentures
. Welcome
@diogomonica
!
Diogo Mónica
I’m ecstatic to announce that Diogo Mónica, one of the most exceptional founders I know, is joining us as a General Partner. In addition to co-founding and building Anchorage Digital into the success story it is today, Diogo possesses a wealth of technical
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Dec 2017 ($10k BTC): THIS IS AMAZING!
Sep 2020 ($10k BTC): *yawns*
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"The latest enforcement action against Coinbase ... demonstrates a complete contempt for Congress which is in the process of developing a framework [for crypto regulation]."
– Rep.
@RitchieTorres
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Pumped we could finally break the news at
@coinbase
! Satoshi-stamp of approval always a good thing :) cc
@NickSzabo4
http://t.co/VyFWsth7rS
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Amazing opportunities with unstoppable teams - come build the future with us!
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the future 🤝 rn
@FWBtweets
out here blazing trails
What if instead of founders pitching investors, investors pitched to communities?
Proud to welcome
@a16z
@PaceCap
@KindredVentures
@sparkcapital
and
@ljin18
to the FWB family through a $10M governance proposal.
Here’s how we did it, why did it, and how your community can too.
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Excited to get our customers access to new, high-quality assets in the open financial system 🌍🌎🌏
Coinbase was founded to give people around the world access to a more open financial system. Towards this end, we’ve always taken a deliberate approach to adding support for new assets to the platform.
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When your tech panels talking about frontier technology look a little different :)
@tinab
-
@calilyliu
-
@iam_preethi
#cryptointro
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i stand with
@_anishagnihotri
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To solve 2050’s challenges, we need the next generation of kids to learn to solve problems, not just pass tests.
Excited to back
@WithPrimer
on their mission to build the education experience of the future, starting with homeschool.
And they're hiring!
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Uniquely enabled by crypto + compelling value prop + intuitive UI for mass market users
Excellent work by
@shayne_coplan
and the
@PolymarketHQ
team
In the last 24h,
@PolymarketHQ
generated the 4th most fees of any crypto project, behind only $BTC, $ETH & $UNI.
…after only 3w live on L2. Congrats to the LPs who earned these fees for facilitating accurate price discovery.
No token, no yield farming; just Product Market Fit.
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My two favorite tech memes combined and it feels so right
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Almost there
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Several countries are contemplating launching stablecoins of some sort, some w/ multiple irons in the fire.
Hard to predict how domestic competition plays out between eg USDC / PYUSD / CBDC but a world with globally open, programmable digital money is a big step forward.
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2/ Chris was previously a partner at Index Ventures where his work leading deals in community-driven businesses ignited his interest in crypto. He advocated internally for the firm to take a closer look at crypto and ultimately helped lead investments in web3.
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Great forward looking segment from
@stevejang
on $COIN day. We’re just getting started!
Early Coinbase investor
@stevejang
of
@KindredVentures
weighs in on the cryptocurrency exchange's impact on the stock market at large. $COIN
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What a time to have conviction in this space
Crypto winter: when high conviction builders keep building and high conviction investors keep investing
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Incredible recovery by
@eulerfinance
and a truly historic outcome for the whole community
The support from the wider community was instrumental in this recovery.
Thank you to the team at
@HaunVentures
, who connected us with specialists from their network within hours of the attack that were crucial to recovering the funds including law enforcement and
@MoFoLLP
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cross-chain future comin in hot
Today we are excited to announce the launch of ZetaChain. With ZetaChain you can seamlessly move value and information across chains and layers and for the first time build omnichain dApps. Check out our blog post here:
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One of those things that simultaneously feels like years ago and days ago – wild reliving it through this post.
Cheers to
@euler_mab
and the
@eulerfinance
team for sharing their story. I've seen first hand how much stronger they are on the other side of it and excited for all
2023 was a year full of twists and turns (to put it politely) for the Euler community. I can’t think of a better way to say goodbye to it than by telling the story of how it played out.
I warn you now, It’s a lengthy story. So strap in. See my War and Peace blog post below.
It
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