Fair Launch is a New Way for Founders to Express Themselves: Gavin McDermott
Gavin McDermott is an investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, the venture arm of design firm IDEO, and he’s one of the creators of Fair Launch Capital. Fair Launch Capital isn’t a traditional investment firm. Instead, it gives startups no-strings-attached funding so that they can afford security audits and launch their projects in a safe way. They’re asked to consider paying it forward by returning at least the same amount they got but ideally more, to fund the next project.
Gavin is hoping fair launch capital provides a viable alternative to venture capital, even if it does end up disrupting his fund's own business model. Since the group unveiled this new funding mechanism late august, the term “fair launch” has taken a life of its own, becoming a gold standard for any new DeFi venture.
Monday. Quick take time and the market is red. Despite Paul Tudor Jones advocating for keeping 5% of his holdings in Bitcoin last week. The death cross meme is in full effect and we have China fud. Again. As oh guess what, China is cracking down on Bitcoin mining. It’s usually around this point in a bull market that the sage influencers out there dust off their rational anoraks and preach caution. Most NFTs will be worthless, most coins are useless, most retail traders are suckers. Etc. etc. And we will all count them wise and wish we had listened except… except.
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This is the Solana Saga - it’s an Android phone produced by Solana’s mobile arm that costs $1000. Saga was first announced on June 23rd of last year. And less than a year later, they’ve already begun shipping. Quite an impressive delivery time in crypto terms, but this should be no surprise since the co-founder of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko, has over a decade of experience working at Qualcomm. So he knows a thing or two about mobile products.
Saga aims to become a crucial stepping stone in bringing web3 into our pockets. Users of the Solana chain can use the Saga to buy and sell NFTs, sign transactions, and self custody assets on the go through biometric solutions. I’ve been playing around with it for a week now, and it’s pretty neat stuff.
So let's dive into why the SAGA could be a total game changer for web3 adoption, and whether or not it can survive a drop test.
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In today's podcast we host Mike Silagadze, founder of ether.fi, an Ethereum restaking protocol, and Nikhil Raghuveera, co-founder of Aethos, a decentralized policy engine being built on EigenLayer. Liquid restaking has recently emerged as a significant trend in the Ethereum ecosystem. In today's podcast, we'll delve into the use cases that restaking unlocks via Active Validating Services (AVSs) through EigenLayer, shedding light on how this innovation is shaping the ecosystem.
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Eigen Layer is a platform that enables Ethereum restakers to stake ETH across multiple protocols at once, using data availability, decentralized sequencers, light node bridges, and other features. It is a proof of stake validation marketplace that reuses state capital and existing validation infrastructure. It aims to improve the scalability and security of blockchains by reducing communication complexity and bandwidth requirements.
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In this week’s episode, we speak with Dan Morehead, the founder of one of the longest-standing and largest crypto funds. Dan founded Pantera Capital in 2003 as a global macro hedge fund. In 2013, Pantera began investing in Bitcoin and quickly shifted its entire focus into crypto. Today, Pantera manages $3.8 billion in digital assets and equity in blockchain companies. Dan said Pantera is planning on increasing the Bitcoin exposure on its liquid tokens fund from zero to somewhere in the teens, while its main bet will remain DeFi. Dan is most excited about what he views is a shift in institutions’ interest in crypto. Firms which had told him they would never come close to holding crypto, are now wanting to dip their toes. And in a still small market, that has the potential to make big waves. Thanking our sponsors:
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