Featured Writing

Crypto DeFi Article
Why Bringing Real-World Assets Onchain Is Important

Geoff Hamilton

Consumer Web3 Article
The Barrier to Mainstream Crypto Adoption Isn’t UX — It’s Product-Market Fit

Li Jin

Founder Stories VFF Article Video
Variant Founder Fellowship: Meet Our 2023 Cohort

Li Jin + others

Medha Kothari + others

Alli Pope + others

Crypto Infra Web3 Article
App-Specific Rollups: A Trade-Off Between Connectivity and Control

Alana Levin

Crypto DeFi Article
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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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

Overcoming ‘Token Debt’

Mason Nystrom

Crypto Token Design Web3 Article

06.15.23

Centralized Dapps Through Tokenized Rebates: A Modest Proposal

Caleb Shough

Consumer Crypto DeFi Token Design Article

05.08.23

Building Psychological Attachment — Not Just Ownership — Into Web3

Li Jin

Consumer Crypto Frameworks/Theses Token Design Web3 Article

04.04.23

Consumer Tokens Should Look Like Web2 Incentive Programs

Li Jin

Token Design Thread

02.17.23

Hybrid Ownership

Caleb Shough

Token Design Web3 Article

01.26.23

The Long View: Web3 and User Ownership

Li Jin + others

Jesse Walden + others

Crypto Token Design Web3 Article

12.02.22

When Tokens Shape Behavior

Mason Nystrom

Consumer Token Design

10.18.22

When to Launch a Token

Alana Levin

Infra Token Design

09.28.22

Tokens Are Products

Jesse Walden

Infra Token Design Article

08.24.22

Designing Governance Tokens

Alana Levin

Infra Token Design Article

08.16.22