We are excited to be backing EtherMail as co-lead, together with Fabric, in their recent $3.25m seed funding round. EtherMail is a blockchain-agnostic email protocol that is propelling today’s email into the Web3 ecosystem, mapping any cryptographic wallet to an email address/inbox (e.g. 0x123…@ethermail.io). …

We’re excited to be leading Unbound Nation’s latest $3 million seed funding round, where we are joined by Blackpool, Daedalus, BLN Capital, and a few angel investors. …

Table of Contents: Introduction: (Generalized) Mining as a Corporate Infrastructure Provider Perspective & Incentives Investor Perspective & Proof-of-Stake Network Perspective & Enterprise Right-to-Play So… why T-Systems and telcos again? Summary & Outlook 1. Introduction: (Generalized) Mining as a Corporate In July 2020, our team at T-Systems MMS, subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom (Europe’s largest telco, parent of T-Mobile) has started providing…

The creation of a Metaverse VC, a Digital Currency Group backed venture capital fund, investing exclusively in companies building products and services for Decentraland pushed me to share an old concept of mine I came up in summer 2016 with the similar name — Metaverse. …

2018 has been a rough year for crypto in general. This is felt even stronger after the meteoric rise of 2017, which carried many people away, me not being exception of course. …

This is Part III of a series of posts dedicated to exploring the topic of staking and validation (Part II here). In this series I will argue why I see validators of a certain blockchain protocol type as future financial hubs, able to combine and capture value from several business…

This is Part II of a series of posts dedicated to exploring the topic of staking and validation (Part I here). In this series I will argue why I see validators of a certain blockchain protocol type as future financial hubs, able to combine and capture value from several business…

This is first introductory part of a series of posts dedicated to exploring the topic of staking and validation. Here I will argue why I see validators of a certain blockchain protocol type as future financial hubs, able to combine and capture value from several business models simultaneously, evolving into…

This is a repost of my old writing from 11.02.2017. This was my outlet to pour out my frustration with how big corporates are dealing with innovation and me trying to fight it (as it later appeared to some extent succesfully). …