thank you this was a refreshingly optimistic week

Excited to announce @variantfund led a $6.7M seed in @oncyber_xyz, home to the best immersive 3D experience for NFTs. Cyber’s gallery spaces recently hit a ~$40M market cap and are populated with digital art collections worth well in excess of $100M How’d we get here? 🧵

More positively, establishing a track record through proof of passion may finally enable a scalable business model for independent cool-hunters and curators. Those who consistently invest in overlooked and underappreciated items that then wildly succeed will be sought after. Marketers and algorithms will surveil their purchases, swarming in after. ... See more

Crypto is public, global and gamified by default, and commerce, identity and ownership are all built in from the get go. (How fun is that!) So we wonder, just like how the cloud enabled new types of digital experiences, or how smartphones enabled new types of location-based experiences, could crypto be a platform that enables new types of social ex... See more