20 May 2025

The convergence of DeFi and TradFi is firmly underway. For much of DeFi’s history, it has operated as a parallel financial system to the traditional financial system, but that’s changing. We now have the perfect storm of built out infrastructure, mature DeFi protocols and a thawing regulatory environment...

01 May 2025

Yesterday we announced that Cherry Crypto is now Prelude. We shared a post talking about it on our new website. The summary is that after three years of investing as the crypto fund of Cherry Ventures, my partners Brett and Yannis and I have spun out that fund and will...

27 Mar 2025

I wrote a post last year laying out the DeSci value chain as I saw it. At the time I had broken it down into 3 core components: funding, research and publishing. I’d now add a fourth component: commercialization. DeSci is ultimately about bringing new drugs to market in...

11 Mar 2025

If there’s a lesson for Europe to take from the past couple of weeks, it’s that it needs to wake up. JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Summit and the beatdown of Zelensky in the Oval Office made it clear that Europe needs to take greater...

04 Mar 2025

I just got back to London after a couple of weeks in Lisbon. For the past 3 years I’ve been coming to Lisbon frequently, in particular over the winter months. London isn’t renowned for its great weather and this time of year the sun is a particularly rare...