$4 million to create broader economic opportunity and social impact for gaming communities.Fabric Ventures is thrilled to back BAYZ as part of their $4 million seed round, led by Yield Guild Games (YGG) with participation from: BITKRAFT, Delphi Digital, Valor Capital, Ascensive Assets, Arca, Sebastien Borget (The Sandbox), Aleksander “Psycheout” Larsen and Jeff “Jiho” Zirlin (Axie Infinity), Nickev (RumbleKongs and reNFTLabs).We backed YGG on their mission of arbitraging time rich players and ti… … More

Each year, we take a few moments to reflect on the progress we’ve made towards accomplishing our mission in the prior year. It’s fair to say that 2021 vastly exceeded our wildest expectations. By all reasonable measures, 2021 was an incredible year in which we made significant progress against two key themes: decentralization & impact.
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Let’s take a stab at wrapping up 2021, as Fabric Ventures continues its mission to help founders weave the fabric of the Open Economy.At Fabric Ventures, we believe that Web3 is inevitable; empowering the Open Economy, intertwining human-centric services into everyday lives with unprecedented intimacy — all whilst providing trust to our machine counterparts to not abuse the growing torrents of data generated.2021 has been a monumental year for the Web3 community: The pandemic; decreasing trust i… … More

TLDR Grants Round 12 ran from Dec 1-16, 2021. GR12 was Gitcoin Grants’ largest round ever with $6.1M raised for public goods, representing 135% round-over-round growth vs. GR11’s $2.6M. Of the $6.1M raised in GR12, $3M came from the matching pool and $3.1M came from the community. GR12 featured ten rounds:  The main round  Six […]
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By Ian Emerson, Investment Team.There are many ways to skin a cat, and there are many ways to view the web3 gaming stack. Having spoken to 10s of founders, thought leaders, and investors on the topic in the last month alone, I will describe here one perspective from which we can start to wonder:What might the Steam of Web3 look like?What follows is not meant to be an exhaustive list of projects (if it is still possible to keep up with them all), nor a definitive framework. Just my 2 cents.For so… … More

Metamatician minting is live! Visit defrag.fi now to mint yours and check out detailed walk-through below. a.image2.image-link.image2-982-728 { display: inline; padding-bottom: 134.8901098901099%; padding-bottom: min(134.8901098901099%, 982px); width: 100%; height: 0; } a.image2.image-link.image2-982-728 img { max-width: 728px; max-height: 982px; } DeFrag.fi ㊗… … More

BlackPool — $6m to deploy into the MetaverseFabric Ventures is thrilled to double down in backing and continuing to build BlackPool into the largest financial actor within the metaverse and gaming economies forming around NFTs. BlackPool has announced a sale from treasury that brought in DIGITAL, Bitkraft, Delphi Digital, Play Ventures, Backed and Cherry Ventures as new investors.The most powerful outcomes of NFT / Play-to-Earn gaming is that they create burgeoning economies: swinging the pendul… … More

TLDR Grants Round 12, Gitcoin’s quarterly funding event, is running from December 1 – 16. During this round, over $3M in matching funds will be allocated to grantees using Quadratic Funding Quadratic Funding is a novel mechanism and Gitcoin Grants is a large experiment in innovating on the QF mechanism To experiment in innovating on […]
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The last Grants Round of 2021 is just a day away. As we mentioned in the Grants Round 12 announcement post, we’re kicking off the event December 1st and running through December 16th, 2021. We’re excited for you to join us to build and fund public goods! With each quarterly Grants Round we learn a […]
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The last Grants Round of 2021 is here! As we mentioned in the Grants Round 12 announcement post, the event runs from December 1st and running through December 16th, 2021. We’re excited for you to join us to build and fund public goods! With each quarterly Grants Round we learn a lot from the previous […]
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Since joining Coinbase in 2013, I’ve been obsessed with marketplaces that make emergent asset classes more accessible. I saw firsthand the value created by a great product and strong brand that brought accessibility and trust to a new global asset class and we’ve since invested in many such marketplaces: OpenSea (NFTs), dYdX (decentralized derivatives), SuperRare, (cryptoart), Notional (fixed-rate loans), Nexus Mutual (crypto insurance), Catalog (music NFTs), Primitive (decentralized options), P… … More

Phishing for BitcoinsMetaMask is an empowering crypto wallet that allows millions of crypto users and enthusiasts to access the Ethereum and blockchain ecosystem from a web browser extension or mobile device, enabling the wallet holder to easily access Web 3.0 (the next stage of the web evolution ), store and swap cryptocurrency, tokens, and NFT’s.With this great power comes the great responsibility of safeguarding the crypto wallet and its assets. As a non-custodial wallet, MetaMask and other c… … More

The Fraud Detection & Defense (FDD) workstream of GitcoinDAO is responsible for detecting and deterring sybil attacks against Gitcoin Grants. This roadmap is designed to continue our process of paying down centralization debt by building a community centric sybil-detection process. This began with the launch of the GTC governance token. The FDD workstream budget was […]
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By Duda Pedreira & Pedro Moraes for Seeking a New Kind of Public Good Translated by Valentina Montalvo AléReviewed by Sebastián Gonzaléz de Gortari In “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” there is a fish, which you can insert into your ear to understand every language in the universe. Holaaaa, perdóname la demora en responder […]
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By Duda Pedreira & Pedro Moraes for Seeking a New Kind of Public Good In “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” there is a fish, which you can insert into your ear to understand every language in the universe. eaiiii, foi mal pela demora em responder e por mandar audio, to ligado o quanto você […]
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