Writing & Ideas – Variant

Featured Writing

Progressive Ownership: A Model for Application Tokens

Li Jin

Jesse Walden

NFTs and the Post-Mint Problem

Mason Nystrom

Love vs. Fame: A Framework for Social Applications

Li Jin

The Next Big Thing in Stablecoins

Geoff Hamilton

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

Derek Walkush

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

Alana Levin

DeFi

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

Derek Walkush

Why Bringing Real-World Assets Onchain Is Important

Geoff Hamilton

How DEXs Are Demonstrating Their Resilience

Jack Gorman

Web3 Social

Variant Team Chat: Speculation as Growth Strategy for Social Apps

Li Jin + others

Web3 Social Networks: The Case For and Against Financialized Approaches

Li Jin

SocialFi: A Blank Canvas for Web3 Social Apps

Mason Nystrom

Investments

Modulus: Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning for Decentralized Protocols

Jesse Walden + others

Doubling Down on Botto: Because Everyone’s a Critic

Caleb Shough

Blockaid: Protecting Users Onchain

Jesse Walden + others

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‘Pop Music Is a Promise That You Aren’t Listening Alone’: What AI Music Can and Can’t Do

Li Jin

AI Art Consumer Article Podcast

08.07.23

Bankless Podcast: Li Jin on the Creator Economy

Jesse Walden + others

Li Jin + others

Cooper Turley

Consumer Podcast

07.01.21

Fred Ehrsam’s Podcast: Jesse Walden on Creators, Communities, and Crypto

Jesse Walden + others

Fred Ehrsam

Blake Robbins

Podcast

06.23.21

Apple Is Holding Back the Creator Economy

Li Jin + others

Nathan Baschez

Yash Bagal

Consumer Article Podcast Video

05.10.21

a16z Podcast: Jesse Walden on the Creator Economy – NFTs and Beyond

Jesse Walden + others

Chris Dixon

Kevin Chou

Consumer Podcast

04.03.21

The Pomp Podcast: Jesse Walden on the Ownership Economy

Jesse Walden

Podcast

03.11.21

Indie Hackers: The Passion Economy

Li Jin

Podcast

02.08.21

The Pomp Podcast: Li Jin on the Passion Economy

Li Jin

Podcast

10.20.20

Bankless Podcast: Jesse Walden on the Ownership Economy

Jesse Walden

Consumer Podcast

10.12.20

Unchained Podcast: Jesse Walden on How to Decentralize a Crypto Project Without Harming Security

Jesse Walden

Podcast

06.02.20

a16z Podcast: Li Jin on How the Passion Economy Is Redefining Work

Li Jin + others

Sam Yam

Lauren Murrow

Consumer Podcast

04.17.20

a16z Podcast: Jesse Walden on Crypto and the Evolution of Open Source

Jesse Walden + others

Denis Nazarov

Devon Zuegel

Crypto Podcast

08.21.18