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Chris Dixon
@cdixon.eth
I’m excited to announce that we’re leading the $15M seed round in @joinlegend to simplify DeFi & help bring the next 100M users onchain. While DeFi activity has grown, it has also become more complex, & remains too complicated for many people to use. Legend is pointing the way to a simpler user experience & broader adoption. Their first product is an embedded smart contract wallet that allows users to borrow, lend, or swap across chains without manual wallet connections or the risk of interacting with malicious websites. Legend’s founders @json, @hayesgm, & @mykel all worked together at DeFi pioneer Compound. Geoffrey was an inventor of the Compound protocol, and a co-founder of Compound Labs. Mykel & Jayson worked together on product and design at Compound Labs before Jayson took the reins as CEO. With their user-facing product expertise and empathy for DeFi developers, the Legend team is perfect to address the UX challenge that’s still hindering DeFi adoption. We’re delighted to support them.
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@cdixon.eth
None of the above should be taken as investment advice or an advertisement for investment services; please see https://a16z.com/disclosures/ for more information.
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trevor
@trevoranon
for a second i thought this was investing in john legend to simplify defi and was like wtf
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haha compound famously simple to use 😅 congrats on the round! looking forward to a simple defi experience myself
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@darrylyeo
Congrats. Can’t wait to see what UX improvements are in store 👀
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@amc
Sounds like a lot of improvements defi has been yearning for, congrats Chris!
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Sujit 🇮🇳 🎩
@0xsujit
I truly believe this fund will perform incredibly well
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@nirbhik
Congrats @joinlegend 🎉
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@garrett
Is this goal here basically to build a defi version of BlockFi or Celsius?
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@piffie
They will have a long way to go - countries on the waitlist are ordered wrong - emails go into the google spam folder… let’s see if the app is the same quality
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Ran Domero
@randomerror.eth
so like ehm who's running compound now?
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Chinmay 🕹️🍿
@chinmay.eth
Sounds like a great company.
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Chris Carlson
@chrislarsc.eth
What happened to the next billion?
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@helensun18
Wow! Very cool 🔥🔥🔥
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@rafaello12
Wow, legendary
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@nvs
🚀
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@nonfungibl3
Amazing congratulations chief
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Can confirm legends eat at Gus's and this team is stacked.
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@yerbearserker
Now that sounds solid! 🫡
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@bp
Legends?
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