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Large Language Models (LLMs) will reshape every business, industry, and consumer experience, but only if the models, tools, and infrastructure are easy to use and available to everyone. The advantages of artificial intelligence need to be equitably spread to the use cases, problem sets, visions, and new ideas as varied and diverse as we all are. For this to be realized, we have to reframe how information and data are processed and retrieved; a mission Metal – a platform for creating AI-powere...

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Chapter One Invests in ether.fi
The Ethereum blockchain is designed to let protocols flourish as fully decentralized and permissionless systems, yet we do not see projects building with this focus in mind daily. It is becoming more clear that DeFi is needed globally, a strengthening market that will power the next evolution of our peer-to-peer financial system. However, with all systems, we must invest in the infrastructure that powers the underlying technology. In September 2022, Ethereum’s consensus mechanism switched to ...
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Jan 31
Chapter One Invests in Squid
We are thrilled to announce our participation in Squid’s Seed Round, led by North Island Ventures with support from Distributed Global, Fabric Ventures, Galileo, Node Capital, and a collection of strong angels. Squid lets its users swap and transfer tokens between blockchains and buy NFTs on any chain with any currency. With just one click on your preferred wallet, you can effortlessly swap tokens from Ethereum to Polygon, buy an NFT on Avalanche from Arbitrum, and access value on various app...
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Jan 29
Chapter One Invests in Hexens
We are excited to announce our participation in Hexens’ Seed Round, led by IOSG Ventures with support from Delta Blockchain Fund, Tenzor Capital, Hash Capital, imToken, and strategic angels.Smart Contracts and Blockchain Technology Need Safeguardshttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/10/hackers-have-stolen-1point4-billion-this-year-using-crypto-bridges.htmlhttps://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/01/13/funds-lost-to-defi-hacks-more-than-doubled-to-13b-in-2021-certik/https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-10...
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Oct 19
Chapter One Invests in Helius
Chapter One is excited to announce that we have co-led the seed round of Helius alongside our friends at Reciprocal Ventures, supported by a strong number of funds and angel investors. Secure, reliable, and fast APIs power the tech world that we live in today. They are even more important in the Web3 ecosystem as the next evolution of software is being constructed at record speeds and rely on blockchain-based information. The Solana ecosystem has proved out its thesis through a strong eye for...
Farcaster: The New Crypto GTM
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Oct 15
By Jeff Morris Jr. Every few years, an important new platform emerges as the new go-to-market strategy for consumer founders. In the crypto world, the popular GTM (go-to-market) has been to own the Twitter narrative and be noisy online, which creates the right awareness to pump your project. In a bull market, the strategy focused on getting a wide audience to share your airdrop, mint, or waitlist — the noisier, the better. People aped into your project without thinking twice because there was...
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Oct 6
Chapter One Invests in Bond Protocol’s Seed Round
We are excited to announce that we are co-leading Bond Protocol’s Seed Round alongside our friends at IDEO. We will be working very closely with the founding team, alongside a strong group of investors and friends at Alchemy Ventures, Hypersphere, and strategic angels. The Evolution of DAOs and DeFi Tokens DAOs have changed the way in which communities participate in public goods, but token issuances and preservation mechanisms are nowhere near from perfect. Liquidity mining was one of the fi...
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Oct 5
Crypto Market Fit: Redefining Product Market fit in web3
By Jeff Morris Jr. Since the beginning of the consumer internet, investors and builders have regarded Product Market Fit (PMF) as the north star for any startup. A startup isn’t actually a company until they find PMF. Instead, they are a founding team who are hypothesis testing and proving a set of assumptions to be true. Before finding PMF, founders are lab scientists preparing, testing, and evaluating new reagents and controls. After finding PMF, these scientists masked in Warby Parkers gra...
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Announcing our $50 million fund to elevate product & design across Web3
The modern Internet is now well beyond escape velocity. We’ll need to continuously adapt to it, and it to us. We’re betting on Web3 as the next evolution of the internet.Foundational technologies like the computer and the Internet have fundamentally shaped the way we live, work, interact, transact, and communicate. The list goes on. Technological innovations bring about disruption, with second and third-order effects that are hard to predict. Tools like Discord and Telegram allow us to coordi...