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Unlocking Data Science for web3

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Building a Better NFT Debt Market

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DeFi News & Updates NFTs Article

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The New Creator Playbook

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Hyperlane and the bridge to a multichain future

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Fans are the New Creators

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Tokens are Products

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Infra Token Design Article

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Designing Governance Tokens

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Sufficient Decentralization

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Introducing Variant Fund III

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Spencer Noon + others

Jesse Walden + others

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Joining Variant: Alana Levin

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Infra News & Updates Article

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Joining Variant: Mason Nystrom

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Consumer News & Updates Article

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The Ownership Economy 2022

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Recent Trends in Token Distribution

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DeFi News & Updates Article

04.13.22

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Joining Variant: Geoff Hamilton

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DeFi News & Updates Article

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The Web3 Renaissance

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Katie Parrott

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Product vs. Protocol: Finding a Balance in Web3

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Jonathan Glick

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11.29.21

Variant Fund II: $110M Fund Built for the Ownership Economy

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Li Jin + others

Spencer Noon + others

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10.19.21

The Passion Economy is the What, the Ownership Economy is the How

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A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy

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The Creator Economy is in Crisis. Now Let’s Fix It.

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08.10.21

Apple is Holding Back the Creator Economy

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The Case for Universal Creative Income

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04.21.21

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02.15.21

We Studied 50+ Startups on TikTok and Here’s What We Found

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01.27.21

The Creator Economy Needs a Middle Class

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Leadership in The Ownership Economy—Scaling Decision Making while Minimizing Securities Risk

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How Does DeFi Cross the Chasm?

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Four Implications of Disruption Theory for the Passion Economy (Part 2)

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Narrative Economics

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02.06.20

Progressive Decentralization: A Playbook for Building Crypto Applications

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Infra Article

01.18.20

16 Key Metrics for the Passion Economy

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The Passion Economy and the Future of Work

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10.08.19

Layers (Not Eras) of Blockchain Computing

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09.03.19

Incomplete Contracts (and Scaling Crypto)

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08.04.19

Past, Present, Future: From Co-ops to Cryptonetworks

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03.22.19

4 Eras of Blockchain Computing: Degrees of Composability

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What’s Next for Marketplace Startups?

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What NFTs mean for ETH

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The Persistent Forker

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