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

Li Jin

Consumer Web3 Article

09.26.23

Building a Truly Scalable Lending Protocol: Morpho at EthCC

Geoff Hamilton

Crypto DeFi Web3 Article

07.31.23

Why UniswapX Will Be Additive to the Uniswap Protocol

Jack Gorman + others

Derek Walkush + others

Crypto DeFi Web3 Thread

07.25.23

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

Mason Nystrom

Crypto Infra Web3 Article

07.20.23

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

Mason Nystrom

Consumer Crypto NFTs Web3 Article

06.30.23

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

Alana Levin

Crypto Infra Web3 Article

06.30.23

Overcoming ‘Token Debt’

Mason Nystrom

Crypto Token Design Web3 Article

06.15.23

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

Web3 Social Media Under the Lens

Li Jin

Consumer NFTs Web3 Web3 Social Article

05.17.23

Actionable Tips for New DevRel Teams

Alli Pope + others

Medha Kothari + others

Developers Variant Network Web3

05.05.23

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

Libraries vs. Networks

Jesse Walden

Crypto Frameworks/Theses Web3 Article

04.06.23

Building Psychological Attachment — Not Just Ownership — Into Web3

Li Jin

Consumer Crypto Frameworks/Theses Token Design Web3 Article

04.04.23

The NFT MEV Landscape

Alana Levin

Crypto Infra NFTs Web3 Article

03.31.23

Turnkey: Removing Barriers for Crypto Developers

Spencer Noon + others

Medha Kothari + others

Consumer Crypto DeFi Investments Web3 Article

03.21.23

About the Variant Network

Jesse Walden + others

Alli Pope + others

Crypto News & Updates Variant Network Web3 Article

03.20.23

Whole Crypto Catalog: Progressive Decentralization

Jesse Walden + others

Medha Kothari + others

Alana Levin + others

Nina Suthers + others

Crypto Web3 Article

02.03.23

The Next Frontier in Cryptoeconomic Business Models

Mason Nystrom

Crypto Web3 Article

02.01.23

Productive Fees: Valuable Protocols / Extractive Fees: Valuable Companies

Jesse Walden

Crypto Web3 Article

01.30.23

More Than Semantics: “Crypto” vs. “Web3” Is About What Will Be Decentralized

Jesse Walden

Crypto Web3 Article

01.30.23

Hybrid Ownership

Caleb Shough

Token Design Web3 Article

01.26.23

Canto: A Layer-1 Incentive Experiment

Jesse Walden + others

Spencer Noon + others

Derek Walkush + others

Crypto DeFi Web3 Article

01.19.23

Progressive Decentralization for Media

Li Jin

Crypto Social Media Web3 Thread

01.16.23

Cross-Chain Order Flow Auctions

Alana Levin

Infra Web3 Article

01.10.23

DIMO: The User-Owned Mobility Network

Li Jin + others

Mason Nystrom + others

Jesse Walden + others

Consumer Crypto Investments Web3 Article

12.12.22

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

The Long View: Web3 and User Ownership

Li Jin + others

Jesse Walden + others

Crypto Token Design Web3 Article

12.02.22

The New Creator Playbook

Li Jin

Consumer Web3 Article

09.27.22

Sufficient Decentralization

Marc Boiron

Legal Web3 Article

08.02.22

Introducing Variant Fund III

Li Jin + others

Spencer Noon + others

Jesse Walden + others

News & Updates Web3 Article

07.28.22

A Theory of Justice for Web3

Li Jin + others

Katie Parrott

Katie Parrott

Crypto DAOs NFTs Social Media Web3 Article

05.10.22

The Ownership Economy 2022

Variant Team

Web3 Article

04.28.22

7 Steps to Transition to Web3

Li Jin

Web3 Thread

01.06.22

The Web3 Renaissance

Li Jin + others

Katie Parrott

Consumer Web3 Article

12.20.21

Product vs. Protocol: Finding a Balance in Web3

Jesse Walden + others

Jonathan Glick

Web3 Article

11.29.21