Over the past couple months I've taken time to catch myself up on all that's happened in crypto since my time with Onward Labs, and all I can say is my goodness - the amount of experimentation and innovation has been staggering this year. This is exciting because we are seeing financial services get completely … Continue reading Introducing: Crypto Por Favor

Last week MetaMask, the browser wallet incubated within ConsenSys, announced a public beta of their mobile wallet. This release makes it the latest offering competing to win the mobile crypto wallet / browser use case alongside projects such as Opera, Brave, Coinbase, Cipher, and Trust Dapp. Ease of Use I took MetaMask's wallet for a … Continue reading MetaMask Mobile

A recent AVC post this past week got me thinking about the power of innovative business models to create massive value. We've all heard of the slew of unicorns applying tech to solve problems across virtually every industry. Many big winners of the web 2.0 era have been crowned and it is getting more and … Continue reading Crypto-Native Business Models

Chainlink caught my attention when Coinbase announced a couple of week ago that it will be available for trading soon. Given that it is the new kid on the block on one of crypto's most mainstream trading platforms, I was curious to learn more about what it is and what it's aiming to accomplish. Chainlink … Continue reading Intro to Chainlink

This past Tuesday, Facebook on its long-rumored cryptocurrency project, Libra, unveiling details on how it will work and its push to decentralize it through the Libra Association. Things I Believe 1) This will be the single biggest boost toward mainstream crypto adoption Facebook's ability to roll out a product instantly to its 2.4 billion monthly … Continue reading Facebook’s Libra

Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against messaging platform Kik claiming that it illegally raised $100M through a token sale in 2017. This stems from the SEC's guidance that any token offering that checks all the boxes of the Howey Test qualifies as a security and cannot raise money from retail … Continue reading Kik’s Battle

Spencer Bogart recently released a great post on blockchain's history and where he thinks things are headed. The history section is a great overview for those new to the space but where I'll focus on for this post is the future of where it's going. Spencer mentions that we are headed from a period of … Continue reading Blockchain: Looking Ahead

Source What if you wanted to trade non-crypto assets, but had limited/no access to do so through traditional brokerages (basically most people on the planet)? Wild developments are taking place in the blockchain ecosystem that will hypothetically enable the average person in a country like Venezuela (or any other underbanked population for that matter) to … Continue reading Intro to Crypto Synthetic Asset Trading

Source Last week, Forbes published an article on how a16z is restructuring to better position itself to take advantage of opportunities in today's markets. It got me thinking about investment structures I've seen and how GPs are maneuvering existing regulation in conjunction with the rise of cryptoassets. In what follows, I'll explain the different routes … Continue reading Crypto & VC Structures

Radix is another protocol that is proposing a solution to the scalability challenges that popular blockchains today face. Unlike other smart contract platforms such as Ethereum, EOS, IOTA or Hashgraph, Radix is not a blockchain nor a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). Rather, it is a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) that proposes an alternative consensus algorithm … Continue reading Intro to Radix