.
External link for 1kx
Catch our very own Wei Dai at Permissionless IV this June in Brooklyn.
systems thinking. clean writing. real contributions. his work speaks for itself, and most of us are still catching up. Wei Dai in brooklyn | june 24-26 tickets: https://lnkd.in/eqGu44-n
1kx is proud to announce our membership in the Superstate Industry Council (SIC) to drive innovation and promote the adoption of tokenization across financial markets.
The Superstate Industry Council (SIC) expands to 50+ Members Today, we’re thrilled to welcome 20 new leading institutions to SIC’s third cohort—driving the adoption of tokenization across traditional finance and digital assets. This group of 20 new members brings deep expertise across trading, custody, lending, stablecoins, and blockchain infrastructure—further strengthening SIC’s role in shaping Superstate’s product and broader sector expansion. They include: ➕ 1kx ➕ Agora ➕ Anzen ➕ Ava Labs ➕ Bitwise Asset Management ➕ Chronicle Labs | Protocol ➕ Euler Labs ➕ Frax ➕ LayerZero Labs ➕ M^0 Labs ➕ Maple ➕ Morpho Labs ➕ Noble ➕ Omni Network ➕ Parataxis Capital ➕ Phoenix Labs ➕ Plume ➕ Resolv Labs ➕ Solana Foundation SIC members are actively adopting and creating use cases for tokenized products: ➕ Omni Network recently integrated USTB for treasury management ➕ Frax, Resolv Labs, and Anzen incorporated Superstate tokenized funds into their collateral frameworks ➕ M^0 Labs integrated USTB eligible collateral for minting stablecoins ➕ Steakhouse Financial launched a "USDC RWA Vault" on Morpho Labs, incorporating USCC as collateral Superstate Industry Council's 50+ leading institutions are actively integrating tokenized financial products across capital markets. From on-chain treasury management to stablecoin collateral & DeFi lending, members are driving real-world adoption at scale. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e3kAdGi7 #superstateindustrycouncil #SIC #tokenization #superstatecrypto #realworldassets #blockchaintechnology #tokenizedrealworldassets #realworldassettokenization
The latest in our Decentralised Physical Infrastructure (DePIN) Tokenomics Series, in which we analyse the cost and reward mechanisms of 27 DePIN networks, authored by our Head of Economics Robert Koschig, together with Mihai Grigore, PhD and Dylan Bane of Messari.
1kx reposted this
We are thrilled to announce that we raised $10 million in seed round funding! Huge thanks to our backers a16z crypto 1kx Blockchain Builders Fund | BBF Stanford Blockchain Accelerator Protagonist Apostolos Apostolakis Can Kisagun David Tse Georgios Vlachos Irene Giacomelli Luca Nizzardo Mounir Benchemled Nicola Greco Nicolás A. Pranit Garg Vangelis Andrikopoulos Waikit L. Sergey G. and Niko K. Web3 can be as fast and simple as a Google search, and pod is making this a reality! At its core, pod has a radically simple design: no blocks, no chains, no complex consensus protocols or moon-math cryptography.
1kx reposted this
Thrilled to announce that Cryptio has raised a $15m extension, bringing our total Series A funding to $25m, led by Alven. I’m excited to welcome new investors in this round with 1kx, Ledger Cathay Innovation, BitGo Ventures, and Charlie Songhurst, alongside continued support from Point Nine , BlueYard Capital, and Tim Draper. In 18 months, we’ve doubled our team across New York, London, and Paris, formed a global alliance with KPMG and partnered with leaders like Circle, Uniswap Labs, and Gemini to solve crypto’s toughest back-office challenges. With regulatory tailwinds like the #SAB121 repeal, and new institutional products coming to market, Cryptio is perfectly positioned to build enterprise-grade financial solutions that help institutions navigate reporting compliance with confidence. With this new funding, we continue to deliver on our mission to improve #financial #integrity in crypto.
Join Our Team at 1kx! We’re looking for a Community & Events Lead to execute our global events strategy, including events such as DInfra Day, Autonomous Worlds Summit, and our annual Founders Summit, and to help foster collaboration and connection across our 90+ portfolio companies and the broader web3 ecosystem. If you’re passionate about web3, have a knack for building communities, and love creating impactful events, we’d love to hear from you!
We're excited to back Predicate, the transaction prerequisite layer for onchain interactions.
Thrilled for us at 1kx to back Predicate - a decentralized network for transaction prerequisites. Predicate is built on the thesis that individuals and entities care about self-sovereignty, the optionality to define who and how they interact onchain. Their product suite enables developers to define and compose pre-transaction rules into their application in a modular way. Use cases include: - AML mitigating the flow of sanctioned funds - Setting volume based limits for EOAs or contracts - Anomaly detection - KYC vendor verifications - Verifying onchain conditions e.g holding certain NFTs or completing quests - Attest to on/offchain collateral The ability for developers to granularly express transaction prerequisites ultimately improves the end UX, as users are no longer stuck with monolithic tools that require more information than actually needed. Predicate provides participants with safeguards, and promote more expressive interactions across the spectrum of decentralized financial and social applications. With launch partners like Aleo Axelar Network Plume Network NEAR Protocol we are excited to see Predicate in the wild, helping dapps stay safe and compliant without compromising on UX. We have followed the progress Nikhil Raghuveera and Jesse Sawa have made since the early days of the project, and we couldn't think of a better team to build out this vision. Full announcement on Fortune
1kx reposted this
We are thrilled to announce 1kx's lead investment in Layer. On Layer, devs can build, deploy, and manage actively validated services like smart contracts! Traditional smart contract platforms face scalability limits due to reliance on replicated execution. Actively validated services (AVS), pioneered by EigenLayer, are a new scaling paradigm that bypasses the limitation of smart contracts by relying on economic security. Yet, building, deploying, and maintaining these services remain a complex task. Layer's platform and SDK offer the best-in-class programmability and configurability for AVSes. On Layer, developers can deploy WASM containerized AVSes (CAVS) with configurable economic security, without needing to recruit an operator set. We think this is a game changer. We're excited to back Jake Hartnell, Sam Cassatt, and Ethan Frey on their mission to build out the next generation of crypto infrastructure. The founding team brings a wealth of experience: Jake and Sam brings deep product and operating experience from their past work at DAO DAO, Juno, and Consensys, while Ethan is an early contributor to Cosmos and the inventor of CosmWasm.
Layer Raises $6M to Build Incorruptible Foundations of the Internet! We are thrilled to announce that Layer has successfully secured $6 million in funding! This achievement marks a significant milestone in our journey to revolutionize internet security and bring the trust guarantees of Ethereum to everyday software applications. With our innovative Layer SDK, we aim to empower developers to create fast, secure, and decentralized applications, helping to build a more trustworthy digital future. A heartfelt thank you to our incredible team and investors, including 1kx, Fabric Ventures, Arrington Capital, and many more, for their unwavering support. 🙌 Join us in celebrating this important chapter in our company’s story! Check out our announcement on Twitter and share your thoughts in the comments below! https://lnkd.in/euAbDiE4
We're delighted to have co-led Daylight's seed round. Our Research Principal Nichanan Kesonpat shares more on our investment thesis and why we're excited about what Daylight are building in her post below.
Excited for 1kx to be coleading the latest round for Daylight - the "Onchain for you" API making our onchain experiences more relevant, personal, and delightful Daylight is the transaction recommendation engine that powers the Home and Discover tabs of wallets like MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, Zerion, and OKX Web3 Wallet. Their “onchain for you” API enables dapps to give personalized recommended txns: mints, claims, quests, and more. Why do we need a transaction recommendation engine? 1) The proliferation of protocols, assets, and dapps has made discoverability harder in web3. New users don’t know where to get started, and cryptonatives lose track of opportunities available to them onchain. 2) Creators and protocols struggle to reach their audience - often relying on minting engines and creator platforms themselves for distribution. 3) Meanwhile, wallets are competing to differentiate, retain, and win new users in an increasingly saturated market. Daylight began by building a supply of allowlisted and token-gated transactions, and launched a dapp where users can discover opportunities available to them onchain given their specific address history. By integrating with 40+ creator tools, Daylight's supply of txns and targeting data became invaluable to power a personalisation API. Daylight delivers these recommended txns through integrations with the most effective distribution channels today - wallets. By serving relevant, up-to-date, and address-targeted recommendations, the Daylight API became a retention-as-a-service tool to convert passive into transacting users, driving significant impact on the metrics that wallets care about most. Every month, Daylight makes recommendations to >6M addresses, and has driven $17M in GMV so far. Having earned the trust of leading apps, projects and creators, we are excited to see Daylight... - Expand txn categories beyond claims and mints - Integrating across more wallets and continue to drive % transacting addresses - Grow onchain GDP! https://lnkd.in/gvpApsEF
Our Partner Diana Biggs joins host Will Beeson, CFA and Laszlo S., Co-Founder and CEO of Kiln, on the latest episode of Rebank to discuss the landscape of staking, the future of digital asset rewards and 1kx's investment in Kiln.
🎧 Ep 239: Supercharging Crypto Finance with Staking Laszlo S. is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kiln, a staking infrastructure provider backed by 1kx, Crypto.com, Wintermute, GSR, Kraken Ventures, Consensys and others. Diana Biggs is a partner at 1kx, a crypto VC that has led rounds in companies including Arweave, Pudgy Penguins, Rarible, Wallet Connect and many more. In this conversation, Laszlo, Diana and Will Beeson, CFA break down the staking opportunity and Kiln’s view of the space and also use it as a jumping-off point to explore 1kx’s investment strategy. Specifically, we discuss staking as a crypto primitive, its potential to supercharge consumer and institutional crypto use cases, the investment thesis behind staking infrastructure, technical considerations and more. #staking #crypto #blockchain https://lnkd.in/gW-uhiDk