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crypto apps are market participants by design their fundamental nature is economic

Relying on token rewards or a 'build it and they will come' mentality is not a defensible go-to-market strategy In 2018 there were 80 thousand tokens in market, today there are 40 million and counting Financial engineering won’t save a product no one wants. Unique Positioning

🥪🥪 Had the privilege of shooting this amazing episode with Ai Ron Stanley last month in São Paulo while visiting local partners in Brazil in Q1. Sphere we often get asked: - "Who are your customers?" - "What is the funds flow?" - "What problems are you solving?"

💫 NEW POD 💫 Pod besties smac & Jonathan Moore joined us last week to riff on everything that’s happened in 2025 so far (TL;DR too much) We chatted about where we are in the current cycle, market dispersion, the future of crypto VC & ofc, some hot takes 🔥 links below!

Tokenizing everything exposes companies to unnecessary financial gravity What used to be a feeling—belonging, status, experience—gets a price tag. And once that happens, it has to compete with every other asset out there.

💫 NEW ESSAY 💫 excited to share the first piece from a new essay series I’m working on called Latent Reflections Latent Reflections is meant to be a space for those interested in exploring latent space primarily as a creative medium 001 is titled “Memory as Design Space” and

Excited to be doing a fireside chat with Gentry Beach jr at Solana Breakpoint 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi Dec 11-13 on some of the special initiatives we've been working on in the emerging world to bring $300b of international trade finance on-chain and spread US dollars to hundreds of millions across four continents.

Buffet realized competing on capital efficiency in commoditized industries leads to a race where no one wins I think the same will be said for many L1 investments today. The new baseline is no longer speed or TVL It’s about incentivizing applications

Vampire attacks have failed to sustain new entrants because short lived incentives don’t expand demand. We end up with more competitors fighting over the same pie zkTLS are a cool example of how we can repackage crypto primitives to expand our potential buyer base

have heard from several people disillusioned with the state of crypto I've never once felt like this in my time in crypto, so maybe it's useful to spill my POV on why crypto is important goes something like this: the ability for humans to coordinate is roughly the most

important to distinguish between revenue quality vs velocity rev debates reminds me of this great read by Jonathan Moore

Here’s a demo of the upcoming Believe API — going live shortly. The goal of the Believe API is to make it easy for builders to create harmony between their product and coin, no matter what their product does. The first API endpoint lets builders burn their coin

In 2024 we had Celebrity Coins, and today, we have Internet Capital Markets (ICM) With each meta, we experience another wave of new entrants and angry crypto enthusiasts. As always, we see a few genuinely good actors, but mostly grifters and mercenary users looking to extract

The path of every jump shot that's bounced off the rim this postseason.

Tokenized securities are the largest opportunity in crypto The cryptoeconomy runs on network effects. Without enough users and volume, there’s no liquidity, no security, and few reasons for anyone to stick around. Despite its global reach, crypto’s network effects have felt