Posts tagged Dapper Labs
User-Generated Finance and Cultural Financial Instruments, via Snoop Dogg, Dapper Labs, and $1.5B Decentralized Social
User-Generated Finance and Cultural Financial Instruments, via Snoop Dogg, Dapper Labs, and $1.5B Decentralized Social

The structure of capital markets precedes the innovations that come from it. High frequency trading, passive ETF investing, SPACs, and crypto assets all telegraphed their value proposition before becoming large and meaningful in scale. We are now seeing a new market shape emerge, one that starts with community and builds up into financial instruments that are cultural and social. This analysis looks at the most recent developments in the overlap between decentralized social and cultural work and related financial features.

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exchanges / cap mkts, visual art, NFTs and digital objects, metaverse, identity and privacy, social & community, marketingLex SokolinSnoop Dogg, Gordon Gekko, Flashbots, Chromie Squiggle, Crypto Punks, Legg Mason, TikTok, Sorare, Palm Protocol, Dapper Labs, Friends with Benefits, Lil Miquela, BitClout, DeSo, Loot, Nouns DAO, SharkDAO
The $250M of non-fungible tokens and the $200MM crypto neo-cyberpunk art market for digital objects (e.g., Beeple, NBA Top Shots), with emerging financial features
The $250M of non-fungible tokens and the $200MM crypto neo-cyberpunk art market for digital objects (e.g., Beeple, NBA Top Shots), with emerging financial features

In this conversation, I talk with Matt Low of QPQ.io and InveniumX Limited, about digital collectibles, crypto art, NFTs, and all the fun decentralized things going on. The market is annualizing to $200 million in sales volume based on CryptoArt.io, and $250 million in asset issuance according to NonFungible.

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NFTs and digital objectsLex SokolinBeeple, NBA Topshots, Rarible, Fewocious, Dapper Labs, Crypto Kitties, Async Art
Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration
Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration

In this conversation, we talk with Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures. This is a fascinating and educational conversation that covers frontier technology companies and protocols in blockchain, IoT, and artificial intelligence, and the convergence of these themes in the future. Jamie walks us through the core investment thesis, as well as the commercial model behind shifting from incubation to acceleration of 30+ companies. We pick up on wisdom about marketing timing and fund structure along the way.

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metaverse, crypto, enterprise blockchain, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, NFTs and digital objects, narrative zeitgeist, decentralized finance, venture capital, regulation & complianceLex SokolinIOTA, Ocean Protocol, Aave, Aavegotchi, NBA Topshots, Dapper Labs, Nifty Gateway, Rarible