HIGHER

Social Graph Ventures

1/ Some personal news 🥳  

I've joined 1kx network to lead social investments!

In 2022, I transitioned from life sciences to crypto. At the time, I wasn't sure where I would land in the crypto space; I just knew I wanted to be an investor. I was building The Symmetrical, a Gen Z investment and consulting DAO. 

After participating in a few oversubscribed rounds, I conceived the idea of launching a Gen Z fund. I cold DMed over 50 different investors and even publicly called out some, asking for 15 minutes to discuss my idea.

Only a few responded, but @pet3rpan stepped up and gave me a shot.

https://x.com/jakub_rusiecki/status/1531623549613531138

1kx supported me through critical steps in my career, from launching and sponsoring a consumer grants program at The Symmetrical to inviting me to join Hydra Ventures and helping me launch /socialgraphvc

Partner @ 1kx, investing in consumer crypto.

vietnam

Landed in HCMC and will be organising a founder’s meet up next Wednesday. Who’s in town?

Data

Does anyone have any stats on FC’s retention?

@dwr.eth can you help out? Purely for internal research

animals

In case you’re wondering Moo Deng is only a 1.5h drive from Bangkok ❤️ bullish devcon

never heard @lucanetz before but now a fan of him and Pudgy Penguins after hearing him at @jakub’s onchain social day. 

here are some good sound bites.

“the PFP game is a status game. i’m in the business of winning; i’m focused on scale and i wake up every morning and i wanna be the biggest and the best. 

crypto needs to cross the chasm and it’ll come down to the communities and products and brands built on top of these protocols. 

people think selling jpegs on crypto rails makes them a web3 business; no, that’s a web2 business.

a web3 business is building with your community and the hivemind with aligned incentives, rather than building in your own silo and making money on blockchain rails. those that embody those ethos will find success.

there is a weird thing in crypto where they build for crypto users and alienate web2 users, but crypto users are actually web2 users — so why don’t we just build for normal users and everyone will latch on. like im building Club Penguin for 2025.”

My Top 9 on @rodeodotclub featuring @antonis-tsagari, @luigistranieri, @jrobabstract, @oneloudimage, @evanmann6, @thebc12, @francoisegamma, and others

Photographer, Visual Artist | on WEB3 since 2021 https://foundation.app/@Klunk22?tab=owned | 

Android developer of TopHattr DEGEN widget, author, vector and AI artist. I like to live dangerously safe.

https://linktr.ee/fraim.10


Painter+Digital+Ai | Collector | Degen | Exploring art in the Metaverse with Spatial 🇦🇺🇨🇦 
https://linktr.ee/jrobabstract

Father of 2 creating in NYC ⚡️

"Glitch" now available on Zora // https://zora.co/collect/base:0x80018331df5b5bf7c301ea056cb4bab493c480ec/1?referrer=0x4fd3bf4b2

Digitally embodied entity using the internet to draw animated GIFS (for Netscape 3.04).

https://linktr.ee/francoisegamma

The creative social network. ✳︎ rodeo.club

«⠀𝗧𝗢𝗞𝗬𝗢⠀𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗧⠀𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗧𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗬⠀»
   Photographer⠀×⠀Creator⠀×⠀Degen

JokeRace

A couple of weeks ago I was awarded 3rd place in the Onchain Bear Cage contest hosted by @socialgraphvc and won 2000 USDC for Farcastles in huge part thanks to the love I received from the community (and totally not for my terrible performance haha).

To return the favor and hopefully inspire more action in our budding ecosystem, I am giving all of the winnings away in the first Farcastles Hackathon. 

See more details in the quoted cast below.

It's heartwarming to see winners from Onchain Bear Cage that 1kx and SGV hosted 2 weeks ago go on a put up their own /jokerace contests to seed their ecosystems.

Bullish

proud to announce @dotdotfan is officially part of @a16zcrypto CSX 2024 cohort of 21 startups!

over the next 10 weeks, we’ll be learning from the best and working alongside fellow founders to bring our pixel-powered, onchain gaming platform to life.

6 months ago, I took a leap of faith and moved to NYC. It's simply the best place to build something new onchain.

I'm grateful for the early support and utterly inspired by the other builders, thinkers and creatives I meet every week.

big shoutout to our day 0 supporters and angels:
@rhynotic @tradernoah @garrett @surfcoderepeat @faultproofben @socialgraphvc @jakub @janehk + friends & fam

supercast

customer support @supercast

trying to sound smart /doingnumbers

Check out FlappyCaster composer mini game! I just scored 11 points!

Check out FlappyCaster composer mini game! I just scored 11 points! https://flappycaster.com/api/frame/share/score?score=11&usersPlayedCount=2553&t=1725625396296

Singapore

Founders

Hosting a small founder's dinner during Eth Warsaw. Who will be in town?

@jakub @bayramov.eth @sathaxe great job bear hunters! Very cool highlights & pitches! Loved seeing new & old faces behind these cool projects @caddi @targetonchain @checkin @kiwi @farcastles @playmini

Voting & project summaries 👇  https://www.jokerace.io/contest/base/0xec8b6c179f2ec9ab9a6d71dfb42699b9bd586b0a

Farcastles

Base

🎉 Big congrats to our 7 finalists!

@checkin - @yuki 
@caddi - @jaimin 
@kiwi - @macbudkowski 
@playmini - @pjm 
@targetonchain - @gonzalomelov.eth 
@farcastles - @raulonastool 
Kiss or Slap - @julieshi 

Now, it’s up to YOU to decide who will win the grant! Tomorrow, as part of Onchain Summer with @base we're running a live stream at 12 PM ET! 🌞

Tune in on @unlonely for the live pitch session. Each finalist will showcase their project, but the final decision is yours. Cast your vote on Joke Race and help us choose the most impactful onchain social projects! 🗳️

Huge thanks to our partners @livepeer and /jokerace  💕💕

Building @kiwi 
Writing @ https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/

founder /playmini @playmini / ex @superrare / pjm.fyi

Co-Founder of @checkin @beyondclub - Onchain <> IRL primitive 🗺️ 📍
icebreaker.xyz/yuki.fc

Fun maximalist // Founder - @caddi // Ex-Quant having fun on-chain https://normie.caddi.fi 

Highly curated news & content for web3 builders. New link every 4 hours. All links handpicked by the Kiwi community.

https://kiwinews.xyz/

What if fun was allowed in the future of finance?
 
https://normie.caddi.fi

Checkin and Earn on Farcaster - Check into spots, explore what’s nearby, and connect with your friends on the go!

📍https://app.checkin.gg

Montevideo Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Social Gaming Company // Creators of MiniSweeper // Follow along at /playmini

Personalize Your Shopify/Slice Store: Onchain Data for Targeted Recommendations on Farcaster

Social and consumer investments @ 1kx network. Founder of /socialgraphvc

https://www.seam.so/socialgraphventures