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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Love vs. Fame: A Framework for Social Applications

Li Jin

Consumer Crypto Social Media Web3 Web3 Social Article

11.10.23

Variant Team Chat: Speculation as Growth Strategy for Social Apps

Li Jin + others

Jack Gorman + others

Mason Nystrom + others

Caleb Shough + others

Jesse Walden + others

Dan Roberts + others

Tina Dai + others

Medha Kothari + others

Derek Walkush + others

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

08.31.23

Web3 Social Networks: The Case For and Against Financialized Approaches

Li Jin

Consumer Frameworks/Theses Social Media Web3 Web3 Social Article

05.31.23

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

Progressive Decentralization for Media

Li Jin

Crypto Social Media Web3 Thread

01.16.23

A Theory of Justice for Web3

Li Jin + others

Katie Parrott

Crypto DAOs NFTs Social Media Web3 Article

05.10.22

Paid Groups and the Passion Economy

Li Jin

Consumer Social Media Thread

10.20.19