Writing & Ideas – Variant

Featured Writing

Why Bringing Real-World Assets Onchain Is Important

Geoff Hamilton

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

Li Jin

Variant Founder Fellowship: Meet Our 2023 Cohort

Li Jin + others

Medha Kothari + others

Alli Pope + others

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

Alana Levin

How DEXs Are Demonstrating Their Resilience

Jack Gorman

Token Design

Overcoming ‘Token Debt’

Mason Nystrom

Centralized Dapps Through Tokenized Rebates: A Modest Proposal

Caleb Shough

Consumer Tokens Should Look Like Web2 Incentive Programs

Li Jin

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Web3 Social

Variant Team Chat: Speculation as Growth Strategy for Social Apps

Variant Team

Web3 Social Networks: The Case For and Against Financialized Approaches

Li Jin

SocialFi: A Blank Canvas for Web3 Social Apps

Mason Nystrom

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Investments

Alluvial: Liquid Staking for Institutions

Jesse Walden + others

DIMO: The User-Owned Mobility Network

Li Jin + others

Shibuya and Decentralized Creativity

Li Jin

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Filter:

Apple Is Holding Back the Creator Economy

Li Jin + others

Nathan Baschez

Yash Bagal

Consumer Article Podcast Video

05.10.21