The Building Blocks of Gamefi Infrastructure Preface: To the creators of the gamefi metaverse Games have long been a frontier of human experimentation. We use them to tell stories, to channel competitive aggression, sometimes to escape, and sometimes to create alternate forms of coordination. Games, at their best, enshrine the human capacity to imagine. So […]
The expected growth calls for the infrastructure necessary to mint, pool liquidity, and distribute social tokens — provided by social token issuers. With deep-dives on Roll and Rally, this article aims to inform future iterations of social token issuers on: How to capture value with their native token Token design: Fixed supply & Token Bonding Curves (TBCs) […]
ReNFT: Building the Web3 Sharing Economy What is ReNFT? ReNFT is a multi-chain NFT rental protocol and platform that can be whitelabel integrated into any Web3 project to enable collateral-free in-house renting, lending, and reward sharing (scholarship automation). In March 2021, before the initial launch, we connected with Nick Vale, Founder of reNFT labs, the team […]
Self-Sovereign Web3 Social: Why We Invested in Comm The problem: There is currently a trade-off between product functionality and data sovereignty in web2 messaging. There is a fundamental misalignment between web3 values and the communication platforms we use today. The centralised cloud servers underpinning Telegram, Discord, and Twitter open risk avenues not only for centralised companies […]
Cosmos Ecosystem: Building an interoperable multi-chain future The Cosmos ecosystem has piqued the interest of investors, developers and users significantly in the past one year. We try to understand this ecosystem by answering 5 simple questions. What is Cosmos? Cosmos provides a sovereign approach to building blockchains in a multi-chain paradigm by offering immense flexibility […]
Web3 is Safu: Why We Invested in Safe What is Safe? Formerly known as Gnosis Safe, which was the successor to the Gnosis Multisig, everyone’s favorite multisignature wallet has rebranded to Safe. Safe is a configurable smart contract account which aims to solve the issue of private keys being the single point of failure. A Short […]
1000 True Chains — Why We Invested in Saga The concept of “the blockchain’’ is already outdated today. When someone says they are building in Web3 or on blockchain, you might ask: “which one?” Sure, pockets of tribalism or “chain maximalism” exist, where people claim the supremacy of their favourite blockchain. But it is clear that a tapestry […]
Social Token Economics Rally TBC V1: S-curve With a market cap representing less than 1% of the entire crypto market, we remain in the nascent stages of social tokens. We’re so early that social token thought leaders are yet to agree upon a definition. Put simply, however, they can be seen as representations of fractional ownership […]
Witness Web 3.0 in the First-Ever Demo Day in the Metaverse Our (work-in-progress) parcel of land on CryptoVoxels At 10pm PST on the 17th of January (or 2pm HKT/SGT on the 18th of January), you can witness the next generation of Web 3.0 at our LongHashX Demo Day. This year, we will be hosting Demo […]
A Simple Breakdown of DAOs If DeFi is about programmable money, then DAOs are about programmable power. While they often intertwine, the design of DAOs has taken a life of its own. In this rapidly evolving landscape, let’s take a look at 3 archetypes, and where they break down. 1. Project DAOs Purpose: Decentralize governance and ownership, […]