In addition to the finalists mentioned in our summary post, the Gitcoin team wanted to take a moment to highlight a few projects that didn’t quite make it to the top 7 that we believe were strong contenders, whether in terms of their vision or in terms of the deep and thoughtful quality of their […]
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The top seven proposals, visualized by @peace_node Two months ago, Gitcoin put out a call for proposals for new kinds of public goods. We sought proposals that went beyond open source code, to address different types of public spheres driven by a wide range of values. We received over 70 responses from organizations of all […]
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Two months ago, Gitcoin put out a call for proposals for new kinds of public goods. We sought proposals that went beyond open source code, to address different types of public spheres driven by a wide range of values. We received over 70 responses from organizations of all kinds, and from across the world. We […]
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Fabric Ventures is doubling down on our portfolio company Axie Infinity (Sky Mavis) by joining a $152M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Accel & Paradigm.May 2021 — $3M in monthly revenueJune 2021 — $12M in monthly revenueJuly 2021 — $197M in monthly revenueAugust 2021 — $364M in monthly revenueThese were the monthly (not cumulative) revenue figures for a company in which we had invested at the beginning of the year, when they were making under $500k in monthly reve… … More

Overview Gitcoin was founded in 2017, there are a number of podcasts and blog posts written about why @owocki started Gitcoin, how Gitcoin has grown into the amazing community, and project that it is today. Core to the Gitcoin thesis, funding public goods and specifically funding public goods through quadratic funding are now a critical […]
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Dear Funders League and Community stewards,  Grants Round 11 (GR11) came to a close on September 23rd, 2021, and it is time to once again take the journey to the Quadratic Lands where we honor our sacred agreement to support public goods in the Ethereum ecosystem. We do that by ratifying the round, and then […]
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Fabric Ventures at Money20/20 Europe: Where Open Banking and Crypto became Mainstream and also met RegulationFor those not familiar with Money20/20: As they like to promote on their website, “it’s the world’s leading, premium content, sales and connections platform for the global money ecosystem”. In reality, as a premium conference, it’s heavily concentrated with payments and established financial institutions. After two years in absence, due to Covid19, not only was it a pleasure to be back ne… … More

Fabric Ventures is joining Andreessen Horowitz in backing the team behind Angle Labs in a $5m seed round alongside Wintermute, Divergence Capital, Global Founders Capital, Alven, Julien Bouteloup and Frédéric Montagnon.Extreme volatility was amongst one of the fiercest criticisms leveled by the mainstream at digital assets until a few years ago. We are now swimming in solutions from which to choose: USDC, DAI, USDT, TUSD, BUSD, UST, USDP … the list goes on. Stablecoins have been the lifeblood of… … More

As cryptocurrency has grown, its users have become an increasingly hot target for phishers. Each time we make one type of phishing harder, the phishers come up with new techniques, and so it’s in everyone’s best interest to stay aware of the latest scams, and consider how you can keep yourself (and friends and users) safe from these attacks.One approach that has been growing in popularity lately is what we’re calling “Airdrop scams”. A typical airdrop scam involves minting a new malicious token,… … More

Take this as a little piece of science fiction; the chances the future looks like this are small, but of all the possible futures I think this has as good a chance of any of happening: Imagine: it is the year 2061. The BTC price is six million US dollars– equal to about a million 2021 dollars because of inflation. Miners are being rewarded 0.006103515625 BTC per block, plus transaction fees of about 5 BTC for 4,000 or so transactions ($7,500 per transaction). But most BTC transactions don’t … … More

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At Fabric Ventures we want to go the distance for potential founders, and perhaps the best person to exemplify this is Solenne Niedercorn-Desouches, our Executive Director, based in Luxembourg. A podcast host, experienced trail runner and with an impressive proven track record in private banking and start-ups, Solenne is the go-to for learning more about regulation, compliance and critical processes in the Fabric Ventures team.With degrees from Paris Dauphine and La Sorbonne in Management, Finan… … More

Immutable — $82M Series B to bring Ethereum L2 NFTs to the worldAt the market level, NFTs are emerging as a new asset class and mainstream intrigue has well and truly arrived. Currently, interest is predominantly concentrated in Collectibles (~$300bn) and Art (~$50-$100bn), but the future of NFTs will be much more than just collectibles — verticals with inherent utility, demand and liquidity, with trillion dollar potential, such as in games (~$100bn). There were $98B of in-game items sold in 202… … More

Introducing the Auto Router, an advanced smart order routing algorithm to find better prices for traders in the Uniswap app … More

A rare Cryptopunk NFT was given away for free with support from Felt Zine and the decentralized NFT community. Explore this blog by Dev Moore of Felt Zine and read more about non-fungible tokens (NFTs) here.What’s better than buying a Cryptopunk? The opportunity to share it with your friends. Curators of culture are quickly becoming a key component to the reorganization and value of digital culture in the era of Web 3.0.FELT Zine, an experimental internet art collective (creators of the world’s … … More