Dapps are Dead, Long Live Dapps.
One of the main benefits that crypto protocols offer us, and certainly one of the reasons they’re valuable to humanity, is permissionless ecosystem participation. The best crypto protocols deliver new rulesets that helps thousands of individuals collaborate and produce value together without needing to trust each other. A decentralized application with a large number of stakeholders self-selecting to be in their orbit will be more productive (and therefore more valuable) than an alternative t...
Dapps are Dead, Long Live Dapps.
One of the main benefits that crypto protocols offer us, and certainly one of the reasons they’re valuable to humanity, is permissionless ecosystem participation. The best crypto protocols deliver new rulesets that helps thousands of individuals collaborate and produce value together without needing to trust each other. A decentralized application with a large number of stakeholders self-selecting to be in their orbit will be more productive (and therefore more valuable) than an alternative t...
Dapps are Dead, Long Live Dapps.
One of the main benefits that crypto protocols offer us, and certainly one of the reasons they’re valuable to humanity, is permissionless ecosystem participation. The best crypto protocols deliver new rulesets that helps thousands of individuals collaborate and produce value together without needing to trust each other. A decentralized application with a large number of stakeholders self-selecting to be in their orbit will be more productive (and therefore more valuable) than an alternative t...
Dapps are Dead, Long Live Dapps.
One of the main benefits that crypto protocols offer us, and certainly one of the reasons they’re valuable to humanity, is permissionless ecosystem participation. The best crypto protocols deliver new rulesets that helps thousands of individuals collaborate and produce value together without needing to trust each other. A decentralized application with a large number of stakeholders self-selecting to be in their orbit will be more productive (and therefore more valuable) than an alternative t...
Competing to Build the Next Yellow Brick Road
Four tribes, alike in volatility In fair cyberspace, where we lay our scene From ancient chains they claim autonomy Where civil wants make civil memes obscene — Willtoshi ShakamotoEnter: The CryptoanarchistStoic. Technical. Principled, perhaps to a fault. They find the blockchain not in search of wealth, but for sovereignty. To them, the laws of code supersede the laws imposed by petty nation states. They are builders, auditors, privacy purists — allergic to KYC and indifferent to price. Whil...
Competing to Build the Next Yellow Brick Road
Four tribes, alike in volatility In fair cyberspace, where we lay our scene From ancient chains they claim autonomy Where civil wants make civil memes obscene — Willtoshi ShakamotoEnter: The CryptoanarchistStoic. Technical. Principled, perhaps to a fault. They find the blockchain not in search of wealth, but for sovereignty. To them, the laws of code supersede the laws imposed by petty nation states. They are builders, auditors, privacy purists — allergic to KYC and indifferent to price. Whil...
Why The Community Is Not the Product
or, The Death of Communities via a Thousand Incentives Before getting into VC a year ago, I spent most of my 20s as a builder in crypto, primarily trying to understand the role that token incentives could play in the successful achievement of community goals. The first product I built and launched was The Bounties Network, which was one of the first Ethereum protocols to grow >$1m TVL. We worked with a lot of your favorite early tokens/DAOs, and the goal was to build an open marketplace (ie h...
Why The Community Is Not the Product
or, The Death of Communities via a Thousand Incentives Before getting into VC a year ago, I spent most of my 20s as a builder in crypto, primarily trying to understand the role that token incentives could play in the successful achievement of community goals. The first product I built and launched was The Bounties Network, which was one of the first Ethereum protocols to grow >$1m TVL. We worked with a lot of your favorite early tokens/DAOs, and the goal was to build an open marketplace (ie h...
The Hard Crypto Thesis
Boost VC was the first institutional fund that was brave enough to deploy into crypto back in 2013, and we’re also the first crypto fund that was brave enough to expand the investment thesis to include hard-tech startups as well. Since then we’ve led investments into dozens of companies which are standing up entirely new markets from scratch — from Radiant building mobile nuclear reactors, to Gigamune developing new kinds of in-vivo cell therapies, to Starfish Space pioneering a more sustaina...
The Hard Crypto Thesis
Boost VC was the first institutional fund that was brave enough to deploy into crypto back in 2013, and we’re also the first crypto fund that was brave enough to expand the investment thesis to include hard-tech startups as well. Since then we’ve led investments into dozens of companies which are standing up entirely new markets from scratch — from Radiant building mobile nuclear reactors, to Gigamune developing new kinds of in-vivo cell therapies, to Starfish Space pioneering a more sustaina...
