Telford Ventures
@telfordventures
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Accelerating visionary web3 founders and investing in blockchain technology
Joined May 2023
Transform your pitch deck into a seed deck with Telford Ventures đź”˝
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Crosschain GHO, using @chainlink's CCIP, is now live on testnet. You can seamlessly transfer GHO across various testnet networks including @base and @arbitrum, with plans to soon include @optimism, @avax, and more. This expansion enhances GHO's utility and accessibility.
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Imagine a Stellar for Decentralized Science (DeSci) to power scientific research in web3, with patients, researchers, and enthusiasts coming together to fund research in specific therapeutic areas on the blockchain, while encouraging accountability and transparency.
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The next rave of mainstream crypto adoption should be fueled by RWA protocols. Getting every fashion, real estate, gadgets and technology devices to be tokenized on the blockchain should easily onboard the next 1 billion users.
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📢Arbitrum Foundations Grants Program is moving to Phase 3. What does this mean to grantees? End of Phase 2: Application form for Phase 2 will close on April 3, 2024. Start of Phase 3: Fresh applications for Phase 3 will open on April 15, 2024.
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Marc Andreessen explains why venture capital is an “extreme feast or famine business” “The venture capital business is 100% a game of outliers. It’s extreme exceptions. So the conventional statistics are that about 200 of the 4,000 venture-fundable companies per year will be
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Building Arbitrum with the community started 10 years ago, but the mission remains the same. Fast, cheap, decentralized, and the freedom to build at scale. 💙🧡 With Interactive fraud proofs powering it all from day-1. 🫡
Ten years ago today, I drew a diagram on my office whiteboard at @princeton. It showed what is today called an “interactive fraud proof”. This was the seed from which Arbitrum grew. 🧵
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There’s been much debate about the utility of blockchain technology, but it seems clear that stablecoins will be a big part of the future of money. $136 billion worth of stablecoins have been issued to date but the opportunity seems much more immense still. @harjtaggar
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To onboard the next billion users into the space, we need insurance protocols to help protect and insure users’ funds. We are backing @RanceProtocol in their quest to protect users’ investments.
📢 We are excited to announce we secured a 500k USD raise led by @telfordventures to enable us scale the first cross-chain decentralized price shield insurance protocol. With this, we will be able to onboard more users by protecting and insuring their crypto investments.
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Keep building until your pitch deck becomes a seed deck.
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What is the best game you played so far at the Game Developers Conference? We may have a surprise for the developer. #GDC2024
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We are backing @microwavefi with pre-seed funding. Microwave is building a bubbling liquid staking vault, users can stake high liquidity assets (BTC, ETH, SOL etc) and earn USDT returns.
🚀 We’re thrilled to announce @telfordventures is funding our pre-seed round with $500,000. 👷‍♂️ https://t.co/LBq081DdQP is bringing liquid staking to a basket of assets, our project will use this capital for building and developing the proposed staking protocol 🍲
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There is no such thing as value investing in venture capital. The steep power law distribution of returns means you want to be in the best startups at whatever the price happens to be.
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Build it and the gamers will come. 💙🧡🎮 #GDC2024
Arbitrum Gamers, we'll see you at @Official_GDC 2024! Look out for the Arbitrum booth in the Center Hall of the expo center, where we'll have many live game demos from the ecosystem! 💙🧡🎮
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