share your milestones, tales, questions from the early stage idea maze

0to1

please follow my farcaster account i will also follow back

all media onchain: crypto as port of entry

next week @variant is hosting a small event for builders in NYC on how to structure an early-stage engineering org for efficiency & operational rigor 

@jesse will be chatting with @alexatallah, co-founder of OpenSea, & @nadav, CTO at OpenSea

we have a few spots open for community builders. 

DM me to attend!

hosting a session with @alexatallah & @nadav on scaling engineering orgs next week. 

what questions do you have for them?

will do my best to summarize the Q&A and post for anyone not able to attend (few spots left for the community, beyond our portfolio--but cap is limited)

CTO @ OpenSea. Fmr. Co-Founder of Dharma Labs. 

Opinions my own

@xanderatallah on bird app. Experiments: openrouter.ai and windowai.io. Prev: co-founder of OpenSea. alexatallah.com

nook

Excited to share that we raised a preseed round led by @variant earlier this year.

We've now solidified our vision for the ideal client for Farcaster and more, /nook.

The transaction feed launch is the first step in bringing @nook more onchain. Much more coming very soon (we build quick)!

https://nook.social/

exciting times in farcaster, on /nook 🏄

Crypto as culture / crypto as tech ("why" vs. "how")

For the past few months, we've been hosting intimate group dinners for builders across the full crypto stack who are beginning to think about their next things (-1 to 0 stage).

Now, we're taking these dinners to the West Coast! Apply below ⬇️

Tokenized managed marketplaces

Onchain credentials -- incentivized through a token network -- could enable new marketplaces to exist that currently don't

Thinking about some events this spring… what areas of infrastructure are people here most eager to learn more about?

some current areas I’m thinking about: interoperability, account abstraction, building MEV aware applications…

what else? 👇

It's been 4 years since I left Coinbase to start Zora.

I remember it being Friday the 13th, and thinking I had funding locked. Covid immediately ramped up and it took 3 hard months to get funding after we'd already all left our jobs and were scattered in different timezones.

I started Zora peak dunning-kruger lol:

the whiplash of March 2020 was memorable for most anyone fundraising at that time. I was raising the first Variant fund and remember believing it was game over, but kept at it. 4 months later the fund was oversubscribed.

Been doing Farcaster Fridays: meeting with builders in the ecosystem all day. Energy is contagious. 

My favorite part of focusing on seed is thinking through the early idea maze, trying new product experiences. 

Reach out if you’re getting started with building headless first, clever client idea, or other.

farcaster fridays: tx frames edition 

if you're looking for feedback on yr tx frame (or idea) drop me a DC

excited to see z headless marketplaces :)

tag a founder who should come to our next thing dinner in NYC on 3/20!

https://warpcast.com/li/0xb552447c

Playbooks for days

We compiled this catalog to be a go-to resource for all things progressive decentralization

Playbooks for days

We compiled this catalog to be a go-to resource for all things progressive decentralization

https://variant.fund/articles/whole-crypto-catalog-progressive-decentralization/

if you’ve asked me about meeting IRL @ /ethdenver this week, a great place to have a coffee chat is our build with @variant event on 2/29!! 

I will be around all day eager to meet folks :) so sign up if you haven’t already: https://lu.ma/gcq8nxy8

Will be dishing coffee and product feedback along with most of the team on Thursday at our co-working coffee space.