It feels like we’ve arrived at the quietest point of the crypto bear market. After 18 months of high octane drama it’s now comparatively silent. There’s no good news or bad news, just no news. This is arguably the most challenging stage of the market cycle to…
The ways in which sports fans follow their favourite teams and athletes, exhibit their fandom, and connect with other fans, continuously evolve over time through advances in technology. New technologies expand the boundaries of sports fandom by enabling products and experiences that were previously not possible. Web3 is the latest…
We continue to be excited by DAOs as a vehicle to channel resources to areas that are underfunded by our current institutions. This is the objective for a subset of DAOs in DeSci known as Bio DAOs. They direct both financial and human capital to underfunded or overlooked scientific fields…
Last week Vita Dao fractionalized one of the IP assets in its portfolio and put up 10% for sale to investors. For those that don’t know, Vita DAO is a DAO focused on furthering R&D in the field of longevity. It is part of a growing ecosystem of…
When Jeff Bezos used to interview candidates for a job at Amazon, he would ask them “Do you consider yourself a lucky person?” I think that’s such a great question because it elicits answers that reveal a lot about person. Someone that considers themselves lucky is likely a more…
A trend among companies building products with NFTs is that they start off by taking custody of the NFTs for users. When NFTs are in the custody of users themselves, they truly own the asset, which means they can do with it whatever they want such as placing it for…
Akio Morita, the founder of Sony, once said: “Our [Sony] plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want. The public does not know what is possible but we do.” Sony established its position as one of the world’s…
A lot of the activity in crypto at the moment is centred around building and investing in infrastructure. On the one hand, building infrastructure for a new technology stack like crypto is needed for applications to emerge. A lot of important infrastructure has been built over the past few years…