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Chapter OneAnnouncing 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...
Chapter OneCrypto 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...
Chapter OneChapter One Invests In Metal
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 OneAnnouncing 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...
Chapter OneCrypto 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...
Chapter OneChapter One Invests In Metal
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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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 application-chains, amongst other actions.
At Chapter One, we believe connecting blockchains together is the future of decentralized finance and the route toward opening its value to mass consumer use. Cross-chain infrastructure and interoperable protocols free users from being limited to applications or opportunities on one blockchain alone and will hasten the adoption of protocols and services that are more bespoke, specialized, and molded towards specific consumer needs and problems.
The key here is the shift away from Ethereum, a trend already visible across the market. Ethereum's share of total locked value in DeFi dropped to 60% in 2023 from 96% in 2020, highlighting the importance of interoperability in expanding the reach and accessibility of DeFi.
As a liquidity and messaging router, Squid will play an essential role in this transition by unlocking liquidity and applications between blockchains – ultimately driving cross-chain adoption and advancements that we envision.
Squid’s technology is accessible through API and SDK, and can be integrated into any decentralized exchange or wallet. Decentralized exchanges such as QuickSwap, Pangolin, SpookySwap, and Trisolaris have announced their integration with Squid, and wallet partners include BitKeep.
Squid’s mainnet launch supports interoperability across 25 chains, including Ethereum, Binance Chain, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Polygon, Fantom, Celo, Cosmos Hub, Osmosis, among others.
Squid's co-founders, Fig and Christina, are cross-chain experts, with Fig’s writings on the cutting-edge of research:
Prior to founding Squid, Fig had a background in traditional finance, while Christina was the Head of Community and Ecosystem Development at Vega Protocol.
If you are a developer, decentralized exchange, or wallet looking to use or integrate cross-chain infrastructure, check out Squid’s website, swap tokens with their front-end application, read posts on their Medium, and follow Squid’s Twitter @squidrouter.
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 application-chains, amongst other actions.
At Chapter One, we believe connecting blockchains together is the future of decentralized finance and the route toward opening its value to mass consumer use. Cross-chain infrastructure and interoperable protocols free users from being limited to applications or opportunities on one blockchain alone and will hasten the adoption of protocols and services that are more bespoke, specialized, and molded towards specific consumer needs and problems.
The key here is the shift away from Ethereum, a trend already visible across the market. Ethereum's share of total locked value in DeFi dropped to 60% in 2023 from 96% in 2020, highlighting the importance of interoperability in expanding the reach and accessibility of DeFi.
As a liquidity and messaging router, Squid will play an essential role in this transition by unlocking liquidity and applications between blockchains – ultimately driving cross-chain adoption and advancements that we envision.
Squid’s technology is accessible through API and SDK, and can be integrated into any decentralized exchange or wallet. Decentralized exchanges such as QuickSwap, Pangolin, SpookySwap, and Trisolaris have announced their integration with Squid, and wallet partners include BitKeep.
Squid’s mainnet launch supports interoperability across 25 chains, including Ethereum, Binance Chain, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Polygon, Fantom, Celo, Cosmos Hub, Osmosis, among others.
Squid's co-founders, Fig and Christina, are cross-chain experts, with Fig’s writings on the cutting-edge of research:
Prior to founding Squid, Fig had a background in traditional finance, while Christina was the Head of Community and Ecosystem Development at Vega Protocol.
If you are a developer, decentralized exchange, or wallet looking to use or integrate cross-chain infrastructure, check out Squid’s website, swap tokens with their front-end application, read posts on their Medium, and follow Squid’s Twitter @squidrouter.
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