Publications
- _Research
Permissionlessness and composability are crucial requirements for protocol primitives to become relevant. The area of possible application of an asset defines its overall utility value. Analog, digital fashion collections, metaverses, and protocols that enable interoperability will become more relevant.
- _Investments
We are excited to be backing EtherMail as co-lead, together with Fabric, in their recent $3.25m seed funding round. EtherMail is a blockchain-agnostic email protocol that is propelling today’s email into the Web3 ecosystem, mapping any cryptographic wallet to an email address/inbox.
- _Research
Digital fashion is a fascinating rabbit hole in itself and presents us with a paradigm shift in the way we will perceive and think about what we consider fashion. We are already spending a significant portion of our daily lives within digital environments, e.g. on social media, in zoom calls, or playing games.
- _Investments
We are excited to share that we led Zharta’s $4.3 M seeding round, an NFT lending platform, together with other VCs like Shilling Capital and Possible Ventures, core Web3 industry players SpaceShipDao and Uniwhales Dao, as well as Clever, Olisipo Way, and other angel investors.
- _Investments
We are excited to share that we are participating in the recent $100M round in Gnosis Safe, which is led by 1kx with further participation by Tiger Global, A&T Capital, Blockchain Capital, Digital Currency Group, Rockaway Blockchain Fund, ParaFi, Lightspeed, Polymorphic Capital, Superscrypt and 50 other strategic partners and industry experts.
- _Research
Last summer, we decided to run infrastructure for our portfolio networks in-house. The Vega network, in which we’ve invested in late 2019, was ready for the launch of both test- and mainnet and held an open community call for participation for the initial validator set.
- _Investments
We’re excited to be leading Unbound Nation’s latest $3 million seed funding round, where we are joined by Blackpool, Daedalus, BLN Capital, and a few angel investors. Unbound Nation is a fast-growing play-to-earn (p2e) guild that is rethinking the nature of the relationship between game developers, gamers, guilds and venture capital funds.
- _Investments
We are excited to share that we led Q’s recent $12m funding round, which has recently launched their mainnet. Q is building a unique L1 protocol with a clear governance process, security that is based on several layers of diverse node operators and its constitution as well as legal enforceability and dispute resolution for applications building on top.
- _Investments
We are excited to be backing goodcarbon in their recent €5M+ funding round led by Planet A ventures who are the first European fund with their own scientific team to assess the environmental and climate impact of an innovation, with further participation by 468 Capital as well as a group of strategic angels.
- _Investments
Sarcophagus: Decentralized dead-man switch — a self-sovereign inheritance protocol for the metaverse
We are excited to be backing Sarcophagus DAO, alongside Placeholder, Inflection, Infinite, Lattice, LD Capital, Lo Enterprises, Compound VC, Hinge, Blockchange capital, Arweave, Figment & a couple of strategic angels, which has raised a total of $5.47M in funding over the last months.