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Financializing NFTs & Why It Matters

Financializing NFTs & Why It Matters

I’m not a financialization maxi. Without a doubt, financial innovation and responsible and appropriately supervised financial engineering unlock tremendous value for society that wouldn’t otherwise be available, like buying important, expensive things, investing for the future, expanding production and ownership, hedging risk and much more. Finance is a

Fintech Valuations in a Macro Hurricane

Fintech Valuations in a Macro Hurricane

Fintech valuations have gotten crushed over the past few months, with growth capital availability and public market comps plummeting due to macro conditions. If you're a publicly traded fintech like Robinhood, Coinbase, SoFi, Square/Block, MoneyLion, Payoneer, Dave, Remitly, Nubank, PayPal or many others, you're feeling

Deep Dive: NEAR Protocol

Deep Dive: NEAR Protocol

Setting the Scene Before digging into NEAR specifically, let's start with the higher level question of how L1s should be evaluated. NEAR isn't a company or a platform, it's an open source protocol and developer community. How should we think about its potential and

Seed Investing in a Bear Market with 186 Ventures

Seed Investing in a Bear Market with 186 Ventures

Giuseppe Stuto is Managing Partner of 186 Ventures, a $37m seed fund launched in late-2021. 186 has made 10 investments since inception, following on from over two dozen angel investments Giuseppe and his partner Julian made over the past few years. Across angel and seed investments, Giuseppe and 186 have

Checking in after a year of building

Checking in after a year of building

We paused our regular programming a year ago while I worked on BELLA. It was right after Gamestop. Bitcoin was spiking to $60k, Dogecoin was minting millionaires, Robinhood was riding the hype cycle toward IPO, and decacorns were still quaintly rare. It all feels so long ago now! I have

Lessons Learned from the Founding, Sale and Closure of Simple

Lessons Learned from the Founding, Sale and Closure of Simple

In 2009, Shamir Karkal and Josh Reich founded Simple, the original digital bank. The concept was straightforward and clearly articulated in an email Josh sent to Shamir in July of that year. That email set off a chain of events that contributed to the rise of digital banking as a