Publications
- _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).
- _Research
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.
- _Investments
We are very excited to announce that we have backed Nym Technologies as part of their $6m round together with our co-investors Polychain (lead), Eden Block, Tioga Capital, 1kx and Maven 11. At Greenfield, we are backing developer teams building towards an open, decentralized, and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s internet.
- _Research
One of the most difficult problems in any organization is how to balance short-term interests and long-term goals. Both are necessary for sustainable success in provisioning goods and services, but in traditional finance (TradFi) as well as decentralized finance (DeFi) capital markets there is a growing trend towards focusing on the short-term.
- _Research
Vega is a decentralized derivatives trading protocol with continuous limit order books or mechanisms such as frequent-batch auctions, constructed as a special purpose layer 1 blockchain, with cross-chain collateral deposits. We have been incredibly impressed with the advancements of their tech stack as well as the community they have been gathering along the way.
- _Team_Updates
Investing in crypto and in particular investing across all layers of the stack not only tends to be quite different from traditional VC, it also leads you to opportunities that incentivize or even require you to be an active participant of and a contributor to the things you invest in as opposed to just a passive token holder.
- _Investments,_Research
We recently announced that we led StakeWise’s $2m funding round with participation from Collider Ventures, Gumi Cryptos, Lionschain Capital and a network of private liquidity providers. StakeWise is a liquid ETH2 staking protocol that helps users unlock more profitable and gas-efficient staking.