Volt Capital is growing, and we’re excited to announce another investing role for our core team.
We’re looking for a Principal Investor to join us in our mission to elevate top shelf founders in crypto.
More details below:
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1/ We're actively expanding the Volt Capital team.
Today, we listed another open role for an investment analyst to join our firm.
Learn more about our team and apply here:
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We are incredibly excited to back
@Gevulot_network
alongside
@variantfund
.
Gevulot is building an internet scale compute network for zero-knowledge proof generation and verification. The team’s approach is the most original we’ve seen to date.
Out of hundreds of companies that applied to P2P: Paris, we invited the top 35 founders to join us yesterday.
Though we keep workshop sessions intentionally off the record (since founders often share sensitive information), here's a shortened agenda of workshops that we hosted:
JUST IN: Volkswagen is expected to change the name of its operations in the U.S. to “Voltswagen of America,” emphasizing the German automaker’s electric vehicle efforts.
Some founders in crypto have made our L2 series a part of their company’s onboarding docs.
If you’d like to as well, we’re linking them both here for convenience:
1. The State of Bitcoin L2:
2. The State of Ethereum L2:
🔥 Gauntlet founder
@tarunchitra
will be leading the P2P: Paris workshop on frameworks to use when considering zkp application/mechanism.
Founders can apply to attend here:
See you on July 17th 🇫🇷
Announcing our validator on the Celo network via our subsidiary TD Labs.
Currently standing at
#6
.
We’re excited to learn more about the network as we go. Here’s how you can also participate:
A break in the timeline to discuss *anti*-fraud:
We are co-leading
@Yakoa_
’s seed round to bring NFT fraud detection and content moderation to some of the largest NFT marketplaces today.
We are super excited to announce our integrations with
@ArweaveTeam
@avalancheavax
@cosmos
@polkadot
, and
@solana
and our $1m pre-seed funding.
This brings us one step closer to fulfilling our mission to enable infinite scalability for Web 3.0 projects.🚀
Please welcome Natalie (
@eclecticcapital
) to Volt Capital 🫡
She is researching and investing in early-stage crypto companies, with a focus on infra and NFT tooling + marketplaces.
1/ I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined
@VoltCapital
to focus on research & investing in early-stage crypto companies.
Some reflections on why I chose Volt Capital 🧵
@CathieDWood
makes a compelling case for
#bitcoin
in her keynote that resonates with many capital allocators in the room.
Watch to better understand why she views bitcoin as a strategic allocation and learn more about its appreciation potential.
Slingshot your way to the Cosmos with our
@osmosiszone
expansion.
⇀ Swap $OSMO and 50+ Cosmos tokens
⇀ Low gas fees (< $0.01)
⇀ Real-time price charts
🌜fkn SEND IT🌜
After working closely with Yan, Rohan, Nigel and
@jerryshixd
for months, we could not be more confident in their vision for the future of data connectivity and are thrilled to be on this journey with them 🤝
A regulatory panel on digital assets that’s actually enjoyable to watch thanks to our smart, engaging group of panelists:
@msantoriESQ
, CFTC’s David Oakland, Ben Reynolds from
@silvergatebank
, Yusuf Hussain from
@Gemini
&
@CMTDigitalLtd
’s Colleen Sullivan
After the break,
@tarunchitra
led the session "Mechanism Design is dead without ZK and Privacy" (we'll run the audience polls again, pseudonymously this time ;).
We’ve backed 35+ of the strongest teams building in the space since 2021 including
@nansen_ai
,
@MagicEden
,
@soundxyz_
,
@centerapp
,
@thirdweb
, and many more.
As our next teammate, you'll help us find and support more leading founders and teams in crypto🔥
We then had, as
@katiewav
puts it, our "cool, Parisian-looking" workshop leaders
@_danielmarzec
and
@SheaKetsdever
on "Illuminating the Dark Forest with MEV-aware Product Design."
Meanwhile,
@nickwh8te
and
@smsunarto
's workshop was on "Choosing Your Cult: Tradeoffs to consider when choosing your infra stack from an economic, technical, and culture perspective."
1/ A thread of our answer to
@morgan_chittum
on how investors view the crypto market now + why it's a phenomenal time to double down on founders in the space:
2/ Responsibilities:
* Researching early-stage investment opportunities in companies + protocols
* Analyzing emerging technical and crypto market trends
* Collaborating with the investment team on due diligence of potential investments
* Supporting existing portfolio companies
1/ 💪+ 🧹 = ✨
Today, we’re excited to announce our latest $10M funding round, along with the closed beta of 💪 🧹PowerSweep 💪🧹, a first of its kind NFT leverage trading platform built in partnership with
@reservoir0x
Congrats
@0xMacroDAO
on the public launch today.
Over the last year, Macro quickly became the de facto way traditional tech devs ramp up and contribute to open source projects, protocols, and apps in crypto.
One year ago, we set out to solve the most urgent needs in
#Web3
.
Today, we're stoked to announce the public launch of Macro (
@0xMacroDAO
)!
Whether you're a seasoned builder or just getting into web3, Macro might be the best thing you've ever heard of 🧵👇
Center is indexing the NFT universe and powering search for the next generation of digital assets.
Congrats
@omarish
and team on the new round of financing!
If you’re interested in learning more, use the link below to apply.
The opportunity set in crypto is growing and Volt Capital is leading the charge ⚡
Join us
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Yan Zhang and team continue to quietly build a new depin giant -- with over 100 countries covered and counting.
As depin generates more heat as a vertical, it's important to filter for founders who have domain expertise in the infra they're building.
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The team first started designing Gevulot at Equilibrium Group, which builds core technology for the likes of
@Starknet
,
@zksync
,
@CelestiaOrg
and others.
Working with projects of this caliber gave them a front-row seat to the struggles of launching zk-based systems.
2/ There's a margin of safety baked in now that wasn't there before.
When you take on pre-seed risk at Series A prices, you assume perfection. You assume the team will execute perfectly, hire perfectly, and hit PMF perfectly.
This assumption sets a founder up for down rounds.
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Flexible – Gevulot supports permissionless deployment of arbitrary provers. Provers can be written in a variety of languages, such as Rust or C++ and can utilize optimizations familiar from centralized setups, like multi-threading and GPU proving.
Introducing the Sound Mobile App - your new home for discovering new music on Sound.
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Zero-knowledge proofs are revolutionizing the blockchain industry by facilitating succinctness, scaling and privacy.
As these applications get more usage, the demand for proof generation is increasing rapidly.
Token lockups are a fundamental part of venture funding in crypto.
We took a look at token vesting trends over the last few years in an attempt to find an optimal vesting schedule for founders.
Read on below 👇
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As we see it, there are 3 key benefits of using Gevulot:
Cost Efficiency – Gevulot aggregates proving workloads from across the industry to better utilize the hardware resources in the network, thus improving the cost-structure for all participants.
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Today, almost all proving infrastructure is permissioned and many applications rely on a single prover. As ZKPs unlock near limitless compute capacity, proving must be decentralized in order for blockchains to retain their core value proposition.
3b./ Qualifications:
* An analytical mindset, attention to detail and strong organizational skills
* 0-2 years of experience operating or investing in crypto (preferably DeFi)
4a./ How to Apply:
Choose 1 of the following topics to write a 1-page assessment on and answer the other with a brief paragraph.
1. Analyze the release of the Lummus-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act and possible implications for the future of the crypto industry
5/ Building your reputation.
You earn money in a bull market, you earn your reputation in a bear market.
Founders are going to remember the investors who helped them navigate downturns and who invested in them as the markets rotated versus the ones who withdrew term sheets.
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Gevulot’s Devnet - its first release - will be a permissioned network for testing the proof generation pipeline and other core functionality – including deployment, proving, verification, networking & orchestration.
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Performant – Gevulot is exclusively optimized for proving and verification. By removing all blockchain features that don’t serve this purpose, Gevulot achieves performance that is equivalent to centralized alternatives for many types of workloads.
3a./ Qualifications:
* Native understanding of crypto and blockchain technologies
* Ability to identify emerging themes and trends in the broader crypto market
* Intense intellectual curiosity about crypto & decentralized systems
3/ The bear market is a stress test.
It is difficult to learn what "works" and doesn't work in crypto when everything is going up and to the right. The bear market offers a stress test that gives you a front row seat to learn the fundamentals.
4/ Earning your stripes.
As the saying goes, you aren't a hacker just because you call yourself a hacker - only when other hackers call you a hacker.
Similarly, you aren't in crypto just because you invested in a crypto company - only when you've survived a crypto winter.