The more succinct the description, the more memorable the association. dydx: perps Aztec: privacy Flashbots: MEV Uniswap: swaps Lido: liquid staking Eigenlayer: restaking Monad: parallel EVM That's why you have to be 1st to your category. Followers have to add differentiation.

No pitch is more powerful than a live tech demo - the audience can’t help but imagine the possibilities

"Markets for everything" is one of the killer features of crypto and no company exemplifies that better than Polymarket, which is also one of the few crypto apps that wows my normie friends. Excited to be backing Shayne Coplan and helping markets take over the world!

I'm reviving my web3 reading list and need to catch up on some of the essays I missed If you read (or wrote!) something great and want to see it included here, drop the link below ⬇️

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Hey House of Reps, Thanks for voting on a crypto bill today. We see you. ❤️, Crypto

If I were hiring for a marketing/growth/strategy position today, my interview questions would be: -How should we track sentiment and mindshare? -How are we fairing compared to our peers? -What milestones should we hit to do better? … And fyi, you can do all of that on Kaito

Working with the Dragonfly ＞|＜ team, GM ＞|＜, Zackary Skelly, Haseeb ＞|＜, Tom Schmidt ＞|＜, Anirudh Pai, Casey Taylor has been a blast

if you had to pick two metrics to compare chains with, which would you pick and why?

🔥 Day 1 of the "Searchers of Nottingham" contest is here! Brave merchants, the market is open. Submit your smart contracts, outmaneuver your rivals, and bid for Sheriff. Let the games begin! 🏅 Now go conquer: nottingham.dragonfly.xyz

can we please stop calling everything a partnership? if they’re using your tech, they’re users. if it’s a BD chat with no strategy, they’re your friends. if you are developing your product with their tech, it’s part of your tech stack. the term “partnership” is losing its

It’s me, but instead of “why?” I’m a broken record asking “is there a business objective tied to that announcement timeline, or is it an arbitrary date?”

the token is not the product the product is the product

1) We’re thrilled to announce our investment in Prodia Labs! Like many others, we’ve been watching the galaxies of crypto and AI collide – we suspect that this intersection will produce some of the most generational companies of this era. And we think that Prodia perfectly fits

so many folks ask bro bing whether our ultra high performance comes from parallelization (absolutely no 🙈🙉🙊) my answer has always been: do you REALLY understand parallelization? here's an explanation from someone who studied distributed system at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for 5 years

personal update — I’ve joined the investing team at Dragonfly ＞|＜ ! excited to learn from the best and work closely with the defi maven Tom Schmidt ＞|＜ @offchainlabs, it was a hell of a ride 💙 DMs open if you’re building (or pre-building) anything interesting >|<

Live updates from #Brussels 📸🍷 Out of the 700 side events, we think ours is the best🤝😜 Dragonfly ＞|＜

A lot of crypto nihilism on the timeline... lest we forget that the simple idea of censorship-resistant money is one of the most important ideas for the future of humanity, and at a minimum, that idea is working and scaling beautifully

I had insightful chats with two #crypto VC firms about Q2 trends, as well as what seeing, hearing and predicting in the coming months. Thanks Tom Schmidt ＞|＜ from Dragonfly ＞|＜ and David Pakman (dpakman.eth) from CoinFund for your perspectives. decential.io/articles/crypt…