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

Mason Nystrom

Crypto Infra Web3 Article

07.20.23

Alluvial: Liquid Staking for Institutions

Jesse Walden + others

Caleb Shough + others

Derek Walkush + others

Infra Investments News & Updates Article

07.11.23

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

Alana Levin

Crypto Infra Web3 Article

06.30.23

The NFT MEV Landscape

Alana Levin

Crypto Infra NFTs Web3 Article

03.31.23

Cross-Chain Order Flow Auctions

Alana Levin

Infra Web3 Article

01.10.23

When to Launch a Token

Alana Levin

Infra Token Design

09.28.22

Hyperlane and the Bridge to a Multichain Future

Medha Kothari + others

Jesse Walden + others

Infra Investments News & Updates Article

09.22.22

Tokens Are Products

Jesse Walden

Infra Token Design Article

08.24.22

Designing Governance Tokens

Alana Levin

Infra Token Design Article

08.16.22

What Can Tokens Do?

Alana Levin

Consumer Infra Thread

08.03.22

Joining Variant: Alana Levin

Alana Levin

Infra Joining Variant News & Updates Article

07.18.22

The Blockchain-Based Global Supercomputer

Jesse Walden

Infra Thread

11.01.21

Progressive Decentralization: A Playbook for Building Crypto Applications

Jesse Walden

Infra Article

01.18.20

Layers (Not Eras) of Blockchain Computing

Jesse Walden

Infra Article

09.03.19

4 Eras of Blockchain Computing: Degrees of Composability

Jesse Walden

Infra Article

12.12.18

The Persistent Forker

Spencer Noon

Infra Article

04.11.18