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Orb just joined the 🌐 Mask ecosystem — and it’s changing the game for onchain creators. Read more about the acquisition in the blog post below.

What app has the best shot at bringing 1 million people onchain next cycle? That’s the question I keep coming back to at Mask. Here’s why I led the acquisition of orb.club — the dominant app for creators to bootstrap their communities (aka clubs) and go viral on Lenschain.

8 months ago there had been 0 $1B+ acquisitions in crypto There have been three since Circle just IPO'ed Genuinely do not understand how you can not be excited about what is happening in the industry rn

$CRCL venture investors were the real winners today: 2013 Series A @ $0.26 → 319x 2014 Series B @ $0.96 → 86x 2015 Series C @ $2.17 → 38x 2016 Series D @ $2.76 → 30x 2018 Series E @ $16.27 → 5.1x 2022 Series F @ $42.13 → 2x The big winners? Accel, Breyer, General

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The correct way to think about structuring a crypto scaleup

You can just build things

ChatGPT's product retention curves is a product manager's wet dream. Their 1 month retention has skyrocketed from <60% 2yrs ago to an unprecedented ~90%! Youtube was best-in-class with ~85%. 6mo retention is trending to ~80%. Rapidly rising smile curve. Generational product.

the state of vibe coding in june 2025

Crypto is about composability. Without leaning into those superpowers, we begin to recreate the original sin of web2. At Tapestry, we believe we have a responsibility to make composable infra that is easier and better for developers to build with. Job’s not finished

Institutional DeFi is beginning: there's regulatory clarity + infrastructure to match An example to follow is Keyring Network - ZK: KYC customers without the whole integration of a provider, and prove it onchain - Privacy: No need to store or know their identity

Cool article on the 3 different types of yield bearing stablecoins. One thing is clear: Stables with no baked in yield will be obsolete review.stanfordblockchain.xyz/p/69-type-iii-…

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I've been reading Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson, recommended by Nick Grossman from USV — highly worth your time. One chapter in particular struck me. It explores the idea of “slow hunches”. The quiet, half-formed ideas that persist over time. Johnson illustrates

Circles exuberance is a double edged sword Too much of it and a crash might open up opportunities for emerging stables

This slide from COATUE got me thinking on crypto Which tokens are doing 100M+ in annual rev + growing >25% + profitable? JTO, AAVE, SKY, MKR — these should have 10x+ multiples

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