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

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

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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Variant Team Chat: Speculation as Growth Strategy for Social Apps

Variant Team

Consumer NFTs Social Media Token Design Variant Team Chat Web3 Social Article Thread

08.31.23

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

Mason Nystrom

Consumer Crypto NFTs Web3 Article

06.30.23

Adventures in Onchain Ownership

Caleb Shough

AI Art Consumer NFTs Social Media Web3 Article

05.26.23

SocialFi: A Blank Canvas for Web3 Social Apps

Mason Nystrom

Crypto Frameworks/Theses NFTs Social Media Web3 Web3 Social Article

05.24.23

Web3 Social Media Under the Lens

Li Jin

Consumer NFTs Web3 Web3 Social Article

05.17.23

Generative Art Will Be a Multiplayer Exercise in Meaning-Making

Tina Dai + others

Simon Hudson

AI Art Marketplaces NFTs Article

05.16.23

AI, NFTs, and Proof of Personhood: The Frontier of the Crypto Creator Economy

Li Jin

AI Art Consumer NFTs Web3 Article

04.27.23

The Interplay Between AI Abundance + Crypto Scarcity

Jesse Walden

AI Art Crypto Frameworks/Theses NFTs Web3 Article

04.25.23

The NFT MEV Landscape

Alana Levin

Crypto Infra NFTs Web3 Article

03.31.23

Shibuya and Decentralized Creativity

Li Jin

Crypto Investments NFTs Web3 Article

12.08.22

Pro Nouns

Jesse Walden + others

Alana Levin + others

Li Jin + others

Consumer NFTs Web3 Article

12.06.22

Building a Better NFT Debt Market

Geoff Hamilton + others

Spencer Noon + others

DeFi Investments News & Updates NFTs Article

11.01.22

Fans Are the New Creators

Li Jin

Consumer NFTs Article

09.01.22

The Garden of Magic Eden

Li Jin

Consumer Marketplaces NFTs

06.29.22

A Theory of Justice for Web3

Li Jin + others

Katie Parrott

Crypto DAOs NFTs Social Media Web3 Article

05.10.22

What Is the Future of NFT Marketplaces?

Li Jin

Marketplaces NFTs Thread

03.01.22

Music NFTs Are the Next Generation of Collectibles

Jesse Walden

Consumer NFTs Thread

11.08.21

What NFTs Can Learn From the Success of Legos

Li Jin

Marketplaces NFTs Thread

10.20.21

NFTs Make the Internet Ownable

Jesse Walden

NFTs Article

02.15.21

The Best Marketplaces Solve a Demand Need

Li Jin

Consumer Marketplaces NFTs Thread

02.25.19