Publications
- _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.
- _Investments
We are super excited that we have been backing Colony with Greenfield One and here is why. Being one of the earliest projects to think about DAOs in 2015/16, Colony has finally been coming to market on more scalable infrastructure with their v2 and some exciting early adopters leveraging the decentralized governance framework (see selected current features).
- _Team_Updates
We are excited to announce Greenfield III, a €135m crypto fund to continue investing in companies and protocols from pre-seed to later stages, across all layers of the stack and in private, public and liquid forms.
- _Investments
NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have been increasingly getting attention over the last year as a new frontier in digital ownership. We are excited to lead the latest $1.7M Seed round in Darkblock together with A&T Capital, with participation by Smape Capital, Unpopular Ventures, Arweave & Julian Lenz.
- _Investments
We are excited to share that we recently led Paladin’s $2.55m seed funding round with participation from our friends at Galaxy Digital, NfX and Semantic. Paladin is a decentralized protocol aiming to empower activists by enabling voting power as a financial asset - the protocol launched on Ethereum mainnet today.
- _Investments
We are excited to share that we recently led Hats’ $3.5m seed funding round with participation of Lemniscap, Spartan Capital, Accomplice, Collider Ventures, IOSG Ventures and others. Hats is a decentralized cybersecurity network, which is governed by its community stakeholders and aims to incentivize protocol security.