Web3 Archives – Variant

What We’re Looking For in DePIN (Pt. 1)

Alana Levin

Crypto Infra Web3

Apr 15, 2025

Good Crypto x AI Projects Actually Use Crypto’s Strengths

Daniel Barabander

AI Crypto Web3

Apr 1, 2025

Agents as NFTs

Daniel Barabander

AI Crypto Web3

Mar 25, 2025

Using Crypto Ownership to Solve the Resource Problem

Daniel Barabander

Crypto Web3

Mar 17, 2025

Policy Priorities to Make the USA the Crypto Capital of the World

Jake Chervinsky

Crypto Regulation Web3

Mar 7, 2025

Yes, Ethereum Should Go to Washington

Jake Chervinsky

Crypto Legal Regulation +

Mar 6, 2025

Liability Considerations for Agent Developers in Crypto

Daniel Barabander

AI Crypto Developers +

Feb 25, 2025

DAO 2.0 Product Ideas

Jesse Walden

Crypto DAOs Web3

Jan 31, 2025

Unchaining Web2 Data Onchain: What Agents and Oracles Need to Know About the Law

Daniel Barabander

Crypto Legal Web3

Jan 31, 2025

Why (Good) AI Needs Crypto

Daniel Barabander

AI Crypto Web3

Jan 16, 2025

Reflections on the State of Crypto – H2 2024

Alana Levin

AI Crypto GTM +

Jan 9, 2025

DAOs 2.0

Jesse Walden

Crypto DAOs Web3

Dec 13, 2024

DevRel == Sales in a Trench Coat

Cooper Kunz

Crypto Developers Web3

Dec 13, 2024

Investing in Hyperbolic

Jesse Walden + others

Daniel Barabander + others

Jack Gorman + others

AI Crypto Investments +

Dec 10, 2024

What Are Agents Good At?

Daniel Barabander

AI Crypto Web3

Dec 3, 2024

Analyzing Criminal Liability for Unlicensed Money Transmitting Businesses Under Section 1960

Daniel Barabander + others

Jake Chervinsky + others

Amanda Tuminelli

Crypto Regulation Web3

Dec 2, 2024

Beyond Speculation and Stablecoins: Crypto’s Next Phase?

Jesse Walden

Crypto Infra Regulation +

Nov 22, 2024

The World Network Opportunity: A Greenfield for Builders

Derek Walkush + others

Leighton Cusack

Crypto Developers Infra +

Nov 14, 2024

Investing in Satflow

Alana Levin + others

Derek Walkush + others

Crypto Investments Web3

Oct 23, 2024

Variant Research Day: Future of Crosschain

Variant Team

Crypto Infra Web3

Oct 2, 2024

A Practical Guide to Geofencing

Jake Chervinsky + others

Daniel Barabander + others

Crypto Legal Regulation +

Sep 30, 2024

The Next Ten Years of Smart Contract Blockchains

Jesse Walden

Crypto Web3

Sep 29, 2024

Only with Crypto / Better with Crypto

Jesse Walden

Crypto Web3

Sep 28, 2024

Toward a More Connected Internet

Alana Levin

Crypto Web3

Sep 23, 2024

What Credit Card Networks Can Teach Us About Stablecoin Opportunities

Alana Levin

Crypto Web3

Sep 18, 2024

How Enforceability of Terms of Service Relates to UI

Daniel Barabander

Crypto Legal Web3

Sep 9, 2024

How to Build a Pitch Deck

Alana Levin

Crypto Developers Web3

Aug 2, 2024

On DeFi Superapps and Their Bottlenecks

Alana Levin

Crypto DeFi Web3

Aug 2, 2024

Investing in Morpho (Again)

Jesse Walden + others

Geoff Hamilton + others

Crypto Investments Web3

Aug 1, 2024

Things We’re Excited About in Crypto

Variant Team

Crypto Web3

Aug 1, 2024

The Future of DEX Trading

Derek Walkush + others

Jack Gorman + others

Crypto Marketplaces Web3

Jul 24, 2024

Examining SEC v. Consensys

Daniel Barabander

Crypto Legal Regulation +

Jul 17, 2024

Variant Builder Day (Security): Spearbit

Variant Team

Crypto GTM Variant Builder Days +

Jul 16, 2024

Variant Builder Day (Security): Turnkey

Variant Team

Crypto Variant Builder Days Web3

Jul 16, 2024

Variant Builder Day (Interoperability): Reservoir

Variant Team

Crypto Infra Marketplaces +

Jul 10, 2024

Variant Builder Day (Interoperability): Across Protocol

Variant Team

Crypto Infra Variant Builder Days +

Jul 10, 2024

Variant Builder Day (Interoperability): Hyperlane

Variant Team

Crypto Infra Variant Builder Days +

Jul 10, 2024

How to Structure Engineering Organizations for Efficiency and Operational Rigor

Alli Pope

Crypto Web3

Jun 27, 2024

A Framework for Thinking About Opportunities in Tokenized Marketplaces

Li Jin

Crypto Marketplaces Web3

Jun 25, 2024

Crypto as Culture, Crypto as Tech

Jesse Walden

Crypto Web3

Jun 20, 2024

Tokenized Marketplaces: Bootstrapping and Scaling Active vs. Passive Supply

Mason Nystrom

Crypto Marketplaces Web3

Jun 20, 2024

AI and the ‘Why Now’ of Data DAOs

Li Jin

AI Crypto DAOs +

Jun 18, 2024

Reflections on the State of Crypto: Q2 2024

Alana Levin

Art Crypto DeFi +

Jun 18, 2024

All Media Onchain: Crypto as a Port of Entry

Jesse Walden

Crypto Web3 Web3 Social

Jun 11, 2024

Crypto and Net-New Marketplaces

Li Jin

Crypto Marketplaces Web3

Jun 7, 2024

Signal to Noise

Jesse Walden

Crypto Web3

Jun 4, 2024

How We’re Thinking About AI

Variant Team

AI Crypto Legal +

May 31, 2024

Verticalization of the Web3 Social Stack

Mason Nystrom

Crypto Marketplaces Web3 +

May 30, 2024

Investing in Farcaster

Jesse Walden + others

Alana Levin + others

Crypto Investments Web3 +

May 21, 2024

On the Intersection of AI and Crypto

Li Jin

AI Crypto Web3

May 17, 2024

AI Models with Taste

Alana Levin

AI Art Crypto +

May 7, 2024

On Non-Transferability, Geofencing, and the Regulatory Risk Spectrum of Token Distributions

Jake Chervinsky

Crypto DeFi Legal +

Apr 30, 2024

Requests for Startups for the Farcaster Ecosystem

Variant Team

Crypto DeFi Marketplaces +

Apr 1, 2024

Crypto as the Next Iteration of the Attention Economy

Li Jin

Consumer Crypto NFTs +

Mar 29, 2024

Memecoins as the New GTM Strategy

Li Jin

Consumer Crypto GTM +

Mar 26, 2024

DeFi Opportunities on High-Performance Chains

Derek Walkush

Crypto DeFi Web3

Mar 8, 2024

ETHDenver Conversation: Why Sufficient Decentralization Is No Longer Sufficient

Jesse Walden + others

Jake Chervinsky + others

Variant Team + others

Crypto Web3

Mar 5, 2024

Crypto Goes on Offense in the Courts

Jake Chervinsky + others

Amanda Tuminelli

Crypto Legal Regulation +

Feb 26, 2024

Dissecting the Points Meta: Best Practices for User Loyalty

Li Jin + others

Jake Chervinsky + others

Consumer Crypto Web3

Feb 14, 2024

New Opportunities in the Farcaster Stack

Alana Levin

Crypto Infra Web3 +

Feb 7, 2024

Headless Marketplaces: Go Where the Wallets Are

Jesse Walden

Consumer Crypto Marketplaces +

Jan 29, 2024

Investing in Gevulot: A Performant Market for Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Jesse Walden + others

Alana Levin + others

Crypto Investments Web3

Jan 29, 2024

Multi-Hit Wonders: Embracing Apps With Short Shelf Life

Li Jin

Consumer Crypto Web3 +

Jan 25, 2024

Onchain Namespaces: An Emerging Crypto Business Model

Mason Nystrom

Consumer Crypto Web3

Jan 25, 2024

A Tale of Two Cryptos: Speculation vs Decentralization

Jesse Walden

Consumer DeFi Web3

Jan 4, 2024

Building Through the Crypto Cycle: A Variant/USV Portfolio Survey on Web3 Hiring and Compensation

Tom Dils + others

Calder Zwerling + others

Matt Cynamon

Crypto Developers Variant Network +

Dec 21, 2023

Lessons on Points Programs for Crypto Apps

Li Jin

Consumer Crypto Web3

Dec 19, 2023

Building in the Dark: Mapping the Current Crypto Privacy Landscape

Derek Walkush

Crypto Infra Web3

Dec 14, 2023

New Signs of Life in the Ethereum & L2 NFT Ecosystem

Jack Gorman

Crypto NFTs Web3

Dec 8, 2023

Crypto AI Agents: The First-Class Citizens of Onchain Economies

Mason Nystrom

AI Crypto Web3

Dec 5, 2023

What Onchain Apps Enable

Alana Levin

Consumer Crypto Infra +

Dec 1, 2023

Progressive Ownership: A Model for Application Tokens

Li Jin + others

Jesse Walden + others

Consumer Crypto Token Design +

Nov 14, 2023

Love vs. Fame: A Framework for Social Applications

Li Jin

Consumer Crypto Social Media +

Nov 10, 2023

NFTs and the Post-Mint Problem

Mason Nystrom

Crypto NFTs Web3

Nov 9, 2023

The Next Big Thing in Stablecoins

Geoff Hamilton

Crypto DeFi Web3

Nov 7, 2023

The Promise of Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Personae and Pluto

Variant Team

Crypto VFF Web3

Oct 12, 2023

Embracing Speculation as a Go-To-Market Approach in DeFi

Derek Walkush

Crypto DeFi Web3 +

Oct 11, 2023

The Barrier to Mainstream Crypto Adoption Isn’t UX — It’s Product-Market Fit

Li Jin

Consumer Web3

Sep 26, 2023

Recruiting and Hiring for Early-Stage Web3 Startups: OpenSea’s Calder Zwerling

Variant Team

Crypto VFF Web3

Sep 21, 2023

Web3 Startup Messaging 101 with Comms Veteran Kristin Sauchak

Variant Team

Crypto Social Media VFF +

Sep 11, 2023

What Brand Marketing Can and Can’t Do in Web3: Ryan Wyatt

Variant Team

Crypto VFF Web3

Sep 5, 2023

Rethinking Decentralized Trust: EigenLayer’s Sreeram Kannan

Variant Team

Crypto Infra VFF +

Aug 29, 2023

Getting ‘Modular-Pilled’ with Nick White of Celestia

Variant Team

Crypto Infra VFF +

Aug 28, 2023

Why Wallets Will Rule Web3: Dynamic’s Itai Turbahn

Variant Team

Consumer Crypto VFF +

Aug 28, 2023

The Rising Importance of Intents in Web3: Succinct’s Uma Roy

Variant Team

Crypto Infra VFF +

Aug 28, 2023

How Founders Should Approach Shared Sequencers: Astria’s Josh Bowen

Variant Team

Crypto Infra VFF +

Aug 28, 2023

Where Interoperability and Modularity Meet: Hyperlane’s Jon Kol

Variant Team

Crypto Infra VFF +

Aug 28, 2023

How To Improve Your Web3 Project’s UI/UX: Slope’s Jeffrey Zhao

Variant Team

Consumer Crypto VFF +

Aug 21, 2023

Denis Nazarov Holds Up a Mirror to Onchain Brands

Variant Team

Art Consumer VFF +

Aug 10, 2023

Shane Mac Has a Message to Deliver (via Your Blockchain Wallet)

Variant Team

Consumer Developers VFF +

Aug 9, 2023

Applying Lessons from Web2 to Unlock Web3 Product Growth: Casey Winters

Variant Team

Consumer Crypto VFF +

Aug 2, 2023

Case Studies in Psychological Ownership: Li Jin

Variant Team

Consumer Crypto VFF +

Aug 1, 2023

Building a Truly Scalable Lending Protocol: Morpho at EthCC

Geoff Hamilton

Crypto DeFi Web3

Jul 31, 2023

Why UniswapX Will Be Additive to the Uniswap Protocol

Jack Gorman + others

Derek Walkush + others

Crypto DeFi Web3

Jul 25, 2023

DePIN and DeREN: Toward a Better Classification of Decentralized Infrastructure Networks

Mason Nystrom

Crypto Infra Web3

Jul 20, 2023

‘This Protocol Is Brought to You By’: An Onchain Model for Web3 Advertising

Mason Nystrom

Consumer Crypto NFTs +

Jun 30, 2023

App-Specific Rollups: A Trade-Off Between Connectivity and Control

Alana Levin

Crypto Infra Web3

Jun 30, 2023

Overcoming ‘Token Debt’

Mason Nystrom

Crypto Token Design Web3

Jun 15, 2023

Web3 Social Networks: The Case For and Against Financialized Approaches

Li Jin

Consumer Frameworks/Theses Social Media +

May 31, 2023

Adventures in Onchain Ownership

Caleb Shough

AI Art Consumer +

May 26, 2023