1/ One week later, we're still feeling that
@SolanaConference
glow 🙌
No mopey $ETH bag holders, no boring panels, no scary lighting...new consumer use cases & tech.
Better lighting. Way better vibes.
Our recap and ideas coming out:
Highlights 👇
We did a deep dive into
#Terra
over the past couple of weeks. We believe
@terra_money
will succeed to find demand for $177B worth of stablecoins and thus will drive the $LUNA price to $170 in the meantime 📈.
Read and download our analysis below 👇👀
@Centrifuge
is launching its token tomorrow, so we prepared an analysis about the future potential of bringing real-world assets to DeFi. Read below, why we think $CFG might achieve $33 per token in the future. 👇
What to do when our portfolio company and leading
#DEX
aggregator
@1inch
has ambitions to bring the next $1 trillion into
#DeFi
? Absolutely support them in their mission.🚀
Terra is the 3rd largest blockchain by collected revenue, has a real-world usage of more than 2m users and can potentially yield 10x on invested capital. Check out our analysis of why we think Terra is a good VC opportunity.
$LUNA $MIR
#Terra
#Mirror
Thank you all for attending
#RBF
&
@1inch
rooftop party last Wednesday in Paris after
@EthCC
! Was great to hang out with our community. Cannot wait to see you all at the next event!
3/
@duskovaci
,
@deacix
@1inch
, and
@EvgenyGaevoy
@wintermute_t
, discussed opportunities for aggregators and market makers in
#DeFi
since trading in DeFi is 3% of the size of centralized exchanges and centralized exchange volume is half the level of global stock markets.
1/ We are excited to join
@wormhole
Guardian Network.
Guardians power the Wormhole ecosystem, monitoring all supported chains. What’s special about that?
1/ Last week was an eventful one for us! We hosted
@Gateway_Conf
, welcoming 600+ Cosmonauts to Prague.
If you couldn't make the trip, all the videos are now available. Even our killer workshop line-up, with hands-on training and product demos! ⬇️
Today, we announce our rebrand to RockawayX, capturing our evolution beyond investing by running independent infrastructure, developing products, and providing additional liquidity for projects to grow.
#Rebrand
#RockawayX
#Web3VC
#CryptoVC
1/ 💥 It’s official: we invested in
@AstriaOrg
.
It's building the leading decentralized sequencer (orders transactions for the L1) on top of
@CelestiaOrg
.
We are thrilled to release of our report on the State of European Crypto Startup Funding, jointly prepared by
@rockaway_x
and
@dealroomco
.
Let's dive into the key takeaways👇
Thread 🧵🪡
🔊 Last night we celebrated
@HassanB1069
joining our team as Partner (VC).
Hassan's unique skillset complements our dynamic approach. He invested across both venture & liquid crypto markets at Nima Capital &
@arca
. He's a big Lakers fan & low-ego workhorse w/ degen spirit 🙌
It's the use case we've been building towards the longest...the crypto payments boom is soon here.
Excited to back Stijn, Jim, and the
@helio_pay
team as they get the payments stack prime-time ready & change how value moves around the globe. 🚀
We're thrilled to announce our $3.3m Seed Round led by
@vc_peak
&
@Factionvc
, with participation from
@Rockaway_X
,
@SolanaVentures
& an amazing group of leading angels, to power merchant payments for the Web3 economy...
Our
@RockawayX_Infra
team had an awesome time at
#StakingSummit
by
@StakingRewards
!
TLDR: crypto infra is levelling up 👉 top networks are more distributed & performant & new ones can bootstrap launches (more) painlessly 🚀
We have decided to fund the first-ever solady audit, because we believe in public goods and we’re impressed by the solady codebase.
To clarify, the proceeds will be dedicated solely to supporting solady contributors and funding future audits. Amazing project! 🤝
Ok, send ETH to vectorized.eth
0x1F5D295778796a8b9f29600A585Ab73D452AcB1c
I can't guarantee that you will get anything in return.
But I will use it to pay Solady contributors, auditors.
#FreeTheMarkets
;
@vegaprotocol
has just launched Alpha Mainnet, a significant moment for the ecosystem of decentralized derivatives protocols!
Congratulations to the community, with much more to come! 🎉
Check out
@barnabee
’s appearance on
@CoinDesk
’s First Mover earlier today, where he discussed the deployment of Alpha Mainnet.
Next up is the launch of decentralised markets on the Vega network
#FreeTheMarkets
We are less than two days away from the
#RockawayBlockchain
Investor Summit in
#London
. Looking forward to a great lineup of distinguished speakers for a discussion of Why
#Web3
: Facts vs Fiction. 1/👇
Yesterday
@Bil_ko
joined a stacked panel at
#SolanaBreakpoint2023
to talk novel on-chain asset types.
TLDR: (Esp. in a modular blockchain future w/ high-performing bridges) Solana can play an imp role in the RWA scene doing what it does best: decentralized infra + execution.
We gathered our portfolio founders at ETHCc last week.
Any of these folks could have had front row seats in (some empty) auditorium, but they chose to lunch with us. Exciting times ahead.
According to
@McKinsey
, the
#metaverse
is a $5T opportunity by 2030, which represents 130x market growth from current levels. Although, in its current form, the metaverse lacks use cases. We think
#games
and social apps will provide beachhead markets.
Thank you to
@TheTieIO
@NYSE
for a bang-up, button-up crypto event yesterday.
cc Bea O'Carroll &
@samantha_bohbot
rep'd @ The Bridge & had a blast.
✨ Hiring for our VC team & we like NYers 👉 get in touch 🍎
Proud to back the
@xverseApp
team as they build the leading
#ordinalsBTC
wallet.
For us and others in this raise, it's our first move into the Bitcoin web3 ecosystem 👉 Rising dev activity + new use cases + most secure and global network = 🚀
Awesome milestone for
@AckeeBlockchain
that are some of the 'unsung heroes' of the audit space:
✅ Meaningful contributions to open source tooling (i.e. Solidity VS plug-in, Woke framework)
✅ Track-record of finding vulnerabilities others missed
✅ No hacks
Onwards 🚀
We backed
@RiscZero
b/c it could unleash far-reaching verifiable compute use cases.
Zeth is a big step. Proofs of entire Ethereum blocks now take minutes & devs can easily bring ZK tech's scalability & privacy benefits to protocols & apps.
Let the experimentation begin 🚀
Introducing Zeth: A Fully Open Source Type 0 zkEVM 🚀
Built on the RISC Zero zkVM and Bonsai, Zeth is a performant, upgradable, and scalable way for developers to ZK prove any Ethereum block ushering in the next generation of ZK and EVM
🧵 1/8 Learn More Below!
#javascript
is the most widely used programming language in Web 2.0, and
@agoric
is bringing it to
#web3
. Very proud supporters of Agoric in their mission👏
🎉Agoric Featured on
#Coindesk
The article covers our public chain, the recent private sale, and how we plan to expand our reusable governance, lending and trading components for
#JavaScript
developers around the world.
#HardenedJavascript
#DeFI
#NFTs
"Europe already has a plurality of crypto startups, and a top early-stage ecosystem”
@viktorfischer
Check out our 1Q23 State of European Crypto Funding Report 👇
A report from
@Rockaway_X
and
@dealroomco
showed that European crypto startups raised a record $5.7 billion in VC funding last year despite the severe market turbulence.
@BrandyBetz
reports
Unleashing ZK's potential will be one of web3's big wins &
@gevulot_network
can play a major part:
✅Permissionless deployment of provers and verifiers
✅Decentralized infra 👉 robust, credibly-neutral provers
✅Distributed proofs 👉 faster & cheaper
Devnet launch in March 🚀
1/ It ain't every day that you get to invest in a product that gives users fun & laughs.
Enter
@jokerace_io
: leading platform for on-chain contests.
Why we're excited:
🦄 Today is definitely one of the greatest days in
#1inch
’s history, as we’ve just crossed another milestone, reaching 1M USERS ON THE
#ETHEREUM
NETWORK!
🙌 This is just the beginning, guys, and we'll surely move to the next chapter.
🔗
#DeFi
#crypto
1/5 Today we are thrilled to announce our €12.5m Series A funding round 🤑 led by
@lightspeedvp
. We're on a mission to build the perfect mobile-first, multi-chain DeFi investing experience. We're blown away that our waitlist has surpassed 300k registrations 🤯🤯🤯 .
Excited to partner w/
@DLN_Trade
@FordefiHQ
!
MPC-integrated cross-chain platform lets us lend (HY) w/ capital transparency - funds not locked idly in smart contracts & we see balances, trades in RT.
Not possible in TradFi 👉 real innovation 🔥
Detail👇
🔊Security experts
@AckeeBlockchain
have open-sourced Wake, a battle-tested Solidity development & (code) testing framework.
It pays to be vigilant...use Wake to test smart contracts of DEXs or any protocol that plugs into your dApp.
Wake is live 🌊🌊
The new Python-based Solidity development and testing framework with built-in vulnerability detectors and printers — now open-sourced and free to use for everyone.
Europe has more VC-backed startups than any geography. It's early-stage game is strong, accounting for ~1/3 of global crypto seed deals.
...But Europe lags the US in late-stage raises ($100M+ rounds) and is well-behind in the Unicorn race.
This Halloween we're off to
#SolanaBreakpoint
!
Since our seed check, our belief that Solana will power awesome dApps has never wavered.
We're hunting for new projects to back (VC & liquidity).
Book time with us:
*Coming in costume ups T/S odds ~50%
There are >1m MAU in
#DeFi
now. Where do the next 100m come from? More user-friendly products is key to unlocking DeFi for the masses.
@UnstoppableDeFi
is introducing just that, and we are happy to be supporting the exceptional team alongside an impressive list of investors.
1/9 Unstoppable Finance is building the world's slickest, multi-chain, non-custodial crypto wallet with the vision to finally bring DeFi products to the mass market.
1/ As seed
@solana
backers, we've been close to the metal (literally: run validator entirely on bare metal, no cloud) since its early days.
In this article, we reflect on Solana congestion 👇
Big supporters of the team
@BCBcrypto
as they expand and build better products to fulfill their mission of helping Projects with banking services as we all transition to
#Web3
.
BCB Group is delighted to announce today that it has closed a Series A funding round co-led by
@FoundationCap
.
This is the largest Series A funding round for a company in the blockchain industry in the UK.
Find out more:
'This team's shipping!' ...
@ethena_labs
too 😉
@idlefinance
has been busy:
✨new strategies, *more coming
✅ risk tranches (Sr / Jr) for custom portfolios
🤝 Vaults offer highest passive yield (via extra Jr juice)
🚀 Sr / Jr flywheel 👉 liquidity 👉 superior products
Yield Tranches strike back!🛡️⚡
The USDe vault now offers the Senior-Junior risk diversification experience on top of the
@ethena_labs
USDe market with a bit of spicy for Senior LPs 🌶️
All details ⬇️
We are excited to officially join the
@LidoFinance
validator set!
This amplifies our
@RockawayX_Infra
focus on active participation in the ETH ecosystem and affirms our commitment to decentralization.
Lido on Ethereum Wave 5 Onboarding Update 🚀
The Lido Node Operator set will be growing by 7 operators.
➡️
Following a vote to onboard NOs proposed by the LNOSG, the Wave 5 onboarding round is complete with 9 new NOs joining the Lido set in Q3 👇
Blockchains do a lot of things well, but cheap and fast computation hasn't necessarily been one of them.
@RiscZero
is building the fix.
Its (zkVM) proving system integrates w/ any smart contract...so all devs & toolkits are welcome. Find the team
@EthCC
to get started 🚀 👇
🇫🇷 The RISC Zero team is out in full force for Paris! 🇫🇷
🔥 Come to our talks, workshops, and developer meetup to learn more about what we have been hard at work building.
🚀 You can find us at any/all of these 5 events.
Interest in Autonomous Worlds is on the rise 🚀
@0x_Clon
participated in an awesome panel discussing AW trends & VC deals to a packed crowd
@AW_Research
Day in Istanbul!
.
@BareMetalPodcst
is the brainchild of our
@observatoryzone
team.
They created the sort of podcast they would listen to: wonky, thoughtful, makes you a better guest at (crypto) (cocktail) parties.
🔊 Pumped for
#SolanaBreakpoint
🚀
@Bil_ko
actively provides liquidity to SOL projects & will speak about what he's looking for (risk scores, yield, RWAs..) Find him there 👇
..Refresher before? Check out the
@MessariCrypto
State of Solana Q323 report 👉
Leading global institutions giving asset tokenization a real go is a testament to the (issuance> security> interoperability> distribution) tech our portfolio company
@axelarnetwork
and others have been building for years 🚀
This morning,
@DeutscheBank
announced participation in
@MAS_sg
Project Guardian, testing compliant asset tokenization applications.
Institutions participating in Guardian have picked Axelar for interoperability 2 years in a row.
Thoughts on why interop is critical for RWAs 🧵⤵️
We would like to invite anyone to join our webinar with Rene Reinsberg
@followrene
, founder of Celo
@CeloOrg
on Monday 14th of December, 5:00 PM Zurich time (4:00 PM London, 8:00 AM SF).
Just register here:
Join us for Rockaway Blockchain Fund
@RockawayBlock
webinar!
Real-Life Use Cases of Blockchain Technology with Rene Reinsberg
@followrene
founder of Celo
@CeloOrg
When? Monday 14th December, 5:00 PM Zurich time (4:00 PM London, 8:00 AM SF)
Register:
It was great to host
@fintechfrank
in our Prague offices!
Our Chief Growth Officer joined him to talk Europe's crypto scene, VC investing, & the perks of having the best engineers who can build stuff fast 😉
2/ Real demand: It's the first and only prop platform offering crypto traders access to liquidity & notional funding - test strategies w/ no risk of capital.
The alternative for traders is bank-rolling a margin account on a CEX.
���(MiCa) is a signal that governments here believe the crypto industry has staying power."
@samantha_bohbot
spoke with
@Siftedeu
about recent regulatory moves & how our portcos on both sides of the Atlantic are navigating them 👇
1/ The amount of $1M+ transfers is steadily increasing on deBridge, and we know DeFi doesn't wait
A 🧵 on enabling decentralized access to institutional liquidity ✨
Want details on
@solana
proposal SIMD-0096?
Got you covered ⬇️
Teaser: Passed Monday; changes economic system to award validators 100% of priority fees paid by users. Strong views for and against, which we run through 👇
Exciting news that
@UnstoppableFi
's sleek Ultimate wallet has an ideal new home
@JupiterExchange
, playing a key role in the thriving
@solana
defi ecosystem.
👀 Unstoppable is building a DeFi bank, w/ big things ahead 🚀
Congratulations to both teams!
Great to see old friends and make new ones
@CFCstmoritz
. Thanks to everyone who joined our
#DeFi
workshop with
@viktorfischer
and
@Mark___Kobal
. And a special thank you to the CFC team for hosting a great and safe event!
An insightful presentation on the future direction of tech by
@benedictevans
!
#cryptocurrencies
help build decentralised and permissionless networks leading to market reset! As
@fredwilson
wrote on his blog, if only it could be played at a 2/3 speed!
"The use of crypto as a democratising tool during this war demonstrates that Ukraine, and Central and Eastern Europe, has long been a burgeoning epicentre for blockchain and crypto technology development. The
#blockchain
revolution is part of the region’s DNA."👇
Rockaway Blockchain Fund has invested in 1inch - leading aggregator of decentralized exchanges. We’re very glad that we can help founders Sergej
@deacix
and Anton
@k06a
on their road to become a leading player on the field of decentralized exchanges.
Excited to back
@Ingo_zk
as it makes ZK ready for certifiable compute primetime 🚀
@RockawayX_Infra
is in the weeds here, running Icicle SDK on GPUs - faster proofs, less electricity.
👉Details:
👇Prover network after efficient compute? Door's open!
Join our
#AMA
tomorrow at 8am UTC!
@tjfanta1
is ready to dish on:
👉what we're seeing in the market & fired up about
✅ how we evaluate deals
🔷 Our theses & how we stick to them in an opportunistic, fast-moving space
✨Best (&worst) pitch he's fielded & why
📢
#AMA
Announcement: Top VCs Tell All - Finding Unicorns, and Secrets to Getting Your Project Funded!
Join our conversation with investment veterans from
@geek_cartel
,
@Rockaway_X
, and
@NGC_Ventures
as we delve into project success indicators and the VC funding perspective !🚀💰
It's hard to run a trading platform. It's even harder to (re)architect one from the distributed ground up.
Since
@dydxfoundation
resolved to go decentralized, it's put TLC into every (token, governance, infra) design detail.
We're proud to partner 🚀
cc
@RockawayX_Infra
Introducing DYDX the L1 token of the dYdX Chain 🎆
DYDX once migrated has expanded utility;
⏰ Staking
🔒 Security
🤝 Governance
All fees generated by the dYdX Chain protocol are distributed to Validators & Stakers every time a new block is committed 🙌
Our Managing Partner
@viktorfischer
will be speaking on 2 panels at
@wdas2018
tomorrow - Finding Alpha in a Bear Market and Outlook on Europe. Will be sure interesting!
We are proud to continue with yet another great partner announcement for our upcoming conference: Welcome
@RBF_cap
!
➡️ Managing Partner,
@viktorfischer
, will be representing the Rockaway Blockchain Fund on our stage in a panel discussion around the scale of the DeFi market.
Awesome partnership between our two portfolio companies
@xverseApp
and
@helio_pay
that brings easy payments to
#Ordinals
& lets creators focus on producing unique collections 🚀
🟧 Say hello to Helio for Bitcoin!! 🟧
Where Web3 payments unite with unparalleled decentralisation💰🌐 Connect your
@xverseApp
wallet, create a Pay Link effortlessly to offer the following.....
🟧 Ordinals Pre-Sales on or
@MagicEden
(
@MEonBTC
)
🛍️ Helio