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You can find the Variant newsletter at https://blog.variant.fund.
Oct 1, 2024
How We’re Thinking About AI
Tasteful AI; the SocialFi stack; running the risk with tokens
May 31, 2024 • Variant
Of memecoins and markets
Memecoins as “attention assets”; Farcaster startups we’d like to see
Apr 2, 2024 • Variant
How Crypto Can Make an 'Impact'
Jake on "impact litigation" for crypto; what to watch for in Denver; portfolio news
Feb 27, 2024 • Variant
Headless marketplaces, Farcaster frames
Jesse on a new GTM strategy for crypto founders; highlights from our Frames hackathon in NYC.
Jan 30, 2024 • Variant and Dan Roberts
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Thinking about web3 social
May 25, 2023 • Variant and Dan Roberts
App rollups, onchain ads
Jun 30, 2023 • Variant and Dan Roberts
How We’re Thinking About AI
May 31, 2024 • Variant
Points have a point in crypto
Dec 19, 2023 • Variant and Dan Roberts
The Progressive Ownership Playbook
Nov 17, 2023 • Variant and Dan Roberts
DEXs flex their resilience
Aug 1, 2023 • Variant and Dan Roberts
Hiring, building, and playing the game on the field
Takeaways from our hiring & compensation survey with USV; our 2024 requests for startups; and Jesse Walden on memecoins.
Jan 9, 2024 • Variant and Dan Roberts
Points have a point in crypto
Plus: Wrapping the year with our best writing
Dec 19, 2023 • Variant and Dan Roberts
New signs of life for NFTs
Data shows new participants minting onchain and new use cases.
Dec 8, 2023 • Variant and Dan Roberts
The Progressive Ownership Playbook
The crypto app layer has yet to see a winning model for how to distribute tokens to users in a way that achieves sustained growth and retention. Now…
Nov 17, 2023 • Variant and Dan Roberts
Our first Founder Fellows graduates
This issue is all about our first cohort of founder fellows. Learn about their projects, hear some of the wisdom they got from VFF speakers, and check…
Oct 5, 2023 • Variant
DEXs flex their resilience
For the latest Variant newsletter, our data scientist Jack Gorman breaks down how DEXs have demonstrated their resilience during a bear market.
Aug 1, 2023 • Variant and Dan Roberts
App rollups, onchain ads
In our June issue, we closely examine the decision process Ethereum app teams face when determining whether to launch their own rollups, and propose a…
Jun 30, 2023 • Variant and Dan Roberts
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