Builders who understand high-performance chains may be able to jump on DeFi opportunities not available in the Ethereum ecosystem.
In this conversation from ETHDenver, Variant Fund's Jesse Walden and Jake Chervinsky explore the effects of sufficient decentralization.
Whether you’re in the departure lounge or sitting ETHDenver out, enjoy our curated reads below, including Jake’s opinion piece on the crypto industry’s shift toward impact litigation.
Lejilex v. SEC shows how the crypto industry can use “impact litigation” to get regulatory clarity.
Takeaways from a discussion about best practices in web2 points programs and how they could be cross-pollinated to crypto.
Farcaster launched Frames, a way to turn any Farcaster post into an embedded app. The feature had crypto builders building, and resonated with our thinking on “headless marketplaces.”
Headless marketplaces leverage global, onchain identity, money, and data while distributing locally—wherever a user’s wallet already is.
Takeaways from our hiring & compensation survey with USV; our 2024 requests for startups; and Jesse Walden on memecoins.
Products based around speculation, such as memecoins, dominate crypto. That will likely remain the case for now—and that's okay.
