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Early-stage crypto venture capital firm investing in an internet that turns users into owners. Read our writing and ideas 👇

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Jesse Walden(@jessewldn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2024 request for startups from the team Variant

Experiments with micropayments
Stablecoin infrastructure
Institutional-grade DeFi
Consumer-focused trading
New namespaces
Privacy infrastructure
Uni V4 hook-enabled marketplaces
P Markets / sports betting for social media…

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Alana Levin(@AlanaDLevin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Information markets
Product-led payments app (movie tickets please 🙏)
Mainstream-ification of owned namespace

Check out these + more of what our team's looking forward to in the year ahead:
variant.fund/articles/crypt…

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derek walkush(@Derekmw23) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A request for startups:
1. Privacy infra
2. Uni V4 hooks
...and much more

Check out the projects other Variant investment members and myself are most excited about.

variant.fund/articles/crypt…

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Jesse Walden(@jessewldn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Enjoyed this discussion with @mclader (@Uniswap) and Devin Walsh (@UniswapFND) at our 2023 LP Day. We covered the synergies between protocol and products on top, each creating value for devs and end-users respectively. youtube.com/watch?v=--C-Ea…

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Variant(@variantfund) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Watch Mary-Catherine Lader of @uniswap and Devin Walsh of Uniswap Labs 🦄FND talk all things Uniswap -- product and protocol -- onstage with Jesse Walden at our LP Day this fall: youtube.com/watch?v=--C-Ea…

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Alana Levin(@AlanaDLevin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Broke: predictions for next year
Woke: predictions for the next *5* years

Some things I think are directionally true over the next 5 years:

• A new cohort of orchestration businesses emerge to coordinate between different stablecoins

• Adoption of crypto payments will be…

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J.Hackworth(@jphackworth42) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1/ That's a wrap on 2023. So, what did you do onchain?

Check out my Ethereum Wrapped post on my new Mirror blog about onchain metrics for the year, highlighting the top trends I found in the data.

mirror.xyz/jhackworth.eth…

Quick dive into the biggest takeaways I found

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The Block(@TheBlock__) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New crypto hires more likely to receive equity than tokens, reveals Variant and USV survey theblock.co/post/268852/ne…

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USV(@usv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We partnered with Variant to run a comprehensive compensation and hiring survey of our web3 companies. Pulling from over 1,000 data points, you can read about some of our findings here:
usv.com/writing/2023/1…

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Tom Dils(@tomd_xyz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our data suggest that crypto companies didn’t spend 2023 bemoaning the bear market; rather, they responded to market limitations by further decentralizing operations, experimenting with new compensation models, and growing their ranks of engineers.

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Tom Dils(@tomd_xyz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Earlier this year, Variant and USV conducted an extensive survey to assess the state of web3 hiring & compensation amid a challenging market. Today, I’m excited to publish our key observations & insights 👇

variant.fund/articles/2023-…

Earlier this year, @variantfund and @usv conducted an extensive survey to assess the state of web3 hiring & compensation amid a challenging market. Today, I’m excited to publish our key observations & insights 👇 variant.fund/articles/2023-…
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Li Jin(@ljin18) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Overnight, points have entered the crypto app zeitgeist! 💥🎰

Sharing a few lessons from my experience building a web2 mobile shopping app 10 years ago that had a points program:

1 - Any sort of extrinsic motivation warps user behavior
2 - Moreover, it changes the types of…

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Variant(@variantfund) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Major computing breakthroughs tend to come in couplets, and the next generation of apps will be built thanks to the couplet of blockchains + zk cryptography. Watch Alana Levin's talk from our LP Day this fall on the 3 new superpowers that zk enables: youtube.com/watch?v=-7nZ65…

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derek walkush(@Derekmw23) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the long run, I firmly believe that the majority of onchain transactions will be private.

Just dropped a new piece mapping the current crypto privacy tech landscape - here's how you build in the dark

variant.fund/articles/build…

In the long run, I firmly believe that the majority of onchain transactions will be private. Just dropped a new piece mapping the current crypto privacy tech landscape - here's how you build in the dark variant.fund/articles/build…
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J.Hackworth(@jphackworth42) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1/ NFT sales may be way down from all-time highs, but there is still a lot of experimentation happening onchain that I believe will help bring in new users & use cases to the NFT world.

Check out my new article on my Mirror & top insights below

variant.mirror.xyz/o4samwmu9JyCq3…

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Daniel Roberts(@readDanwrite) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NFTs dead and done? not so fast: J.Hackworth runs the data and finds multiple signs of life, including steady rise this year in number of distinct wallets minting NFTs on L2s like Optimism, Base, and Zora. new people coming in thx to lower cost barrier? variant.mirror.xyz/o4samwmu9JyCq3…

NFTs dead and done? not so fast: @jphackworth42 runs the data and finds multiple signs of life, including steady rise this year in number of distinct wallets minting NFTs on L2s like Optimism, Base, and Zora. new people coming in thx to lower cost barrier? variant.mirror.xyz/o4samwmu9JyCq3…
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Alana Levin(@AlanaDLevin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Post is now also live on the Variant website! And it uses “onchain” not “on-chain,” as it should be 🫡 cc Jesse Pollak (jesse.xyz) 🛡️

variant.fund/articles/what-…

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