All journeys must start somewhere. In this case, it’s the voyage to bring Bitcoin into Web3 and a future with programmable money. As a Co-Chair, the $165 million Bitcoin Odyssey Pledge was designed to propel Bitcoin builders into this future and what comes next. …

May 2022 At Stacks Ventures, our mission is to make Bitcoin the settlement layer of Web3 by investing in outstanding startup teams building new use cases for the world’s first and most secure cryptocurrency. The Stacks ecosystem saw significant growth since the mainnet launches of Stacks (Jan’ 21) & CityCoins…

June 2022 Closing out last year [2021], the Web 3.0 industry was preparing for a year set to provide the next massive expansion from new technical advances to maturing categories & infrastructure upgrades to recording-breaking metrics in venture capital dollars & active users. On the capital side, the investors poured…

June 2022 It’s been exactly a year and a half since the Stacks Foundation released the highly anticipated Stacks 2.0 Whitepaper, which built on two years of R&D and brought utility to Bitcoin via Stacks that would see mainnet launch thirty-one days later. Fast forward to 2022, the ecosystem continues…

June 2022 Arriving in Austin this week began with a sense of reflection on what the web 3.0 industry has provided us throughout the last five years, specifically the summer growth spurts — each themed with the likes of “DeFi/2020”, “NFTs/2021”, “DAOs/2022ish”, etc. When looking ahead this summer, something feels…

Masa’s decentralized credit protocol bridges off-chain data with on-chain data to create the world’s first Hybrid Credit Protocol & Decentralized Credit Bureau — May 2022 Following our investment in PngMe, we continued to double down on the ecosystem being built by contributing to Masa Finance, a first-of-its-kind hybrid credit protocol, Pre-Seed funding round for $3.5 million USD (closed in November 2021) with Unshackled Ventures, executives from GoldenTree Asset Management, Flori Ventures (Celo-focused fund)…

Continuing my deep-dive series into the ThreeFold ecosystem, I sat down last week with Scott Yeager, a DIY ThreeFold Farmer who leads the Technical Community at ThreeFold, to go beyond the surface of the Decentralized Internet and speak about his Yield Farming journey from beginning to ThreeFold and the lessons in between for those just getting started to expand future internet capacity. Enjoy. —

April 2022 The digital assets landscape continues to evolve with improved infrastructure, new use-cases and growing adoption as the total market cap now surpasses $1.8 trillion dollars. Today, stablecoins themselves represent roughly ten percent ($187.0M at the time of publishing) of that total industry market cap and only growing as…

Continuing my deep-dive series into the ThreeFold ecosystem, I sat down last week with Sacha Obeegadoo, who leads as the Head of Marketing and Ecosystems for the ThreeFold, to go beyond the surface of the Decentralized Internet and speak about the network's efforts around farming and expanding the future internet capacity. Enjoy. — Kyle: What is ThreeFold’s Role in the Future of the Internet? Sacha Obeegadoo: As many know, Bitcoin has transformed the way we exchange value. It’s a decentralized alternative to banks, doesn’t require intermediaries, and permits people to exchange value across borders. In a way, ThreeFold was inspired by the spark of Bitcoin. In its early days, between 2010 and 2015, the…