Alana Levin

@alanadlevin

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In the future, every app will have an embedded wallet It's just an easier, lower-cost way to send and receive payments online (especially as stablecoins grow in prevalence) Doubly true for tools that let anyone, anywhere build and sell products. Eg a 16yo vibe codes a cool app that people around the world are willing to pay $3/month for? Far easier to spin up a wallet than navigate the financial sausage of current international payments + banking

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Neil Mehta (Greenoaks) on the unit economics of investing in foundation model companies

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The two most consistent pain points I hear from founders building crypto apps: on-ramps and bridging

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It's finally frozen grape season (ie it's warm out again)

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SAVE THE DATE Come hang at the Variant HQ during Farcon in NYC. Good food, good vibes, good fun Register here: https://lu.ma/e3eclbmi

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ITAP while on a run in Central Park

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New Essay: What We're Looking for in DePIN (Pt 1.) When evaluating a DePIN project, the core question one should ask is: what coordination challenge does crypto help solve? There are really only three: 1. Solving verification 2. Overcoming barriers to centralized supply formation 3. Accessing financial services Full piece below, focused on the supply side of networks. Pt 2 (how we're thinking about demand) will come out next week https://blog.variant.fund/what-were-looking-for-in-depin-pt-1

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Warpcast gripe: it's really hard to navigate the mini apps tab - no ability to search - no categorization for the apps / ability to easily preview what each app does - the featured mini app doesn't update frequently enough (it has consistently shown an app I'm not interested in)

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Shopify storefront integration in Warpcast would go hard

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I'd love to reinvest the money I earn on Farcaster each week (prob $10-$20) back into the ecosystem by trying different mini apps / features. Ideally things that don't involve simply buying & selling tokens. What should I check out?

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Seeing so many mini apps experiment with good growth hacks

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Incredible turnout yesterday at our Protocol Security event cohosted alongside Blockaid, Anchorage, and Spearbit Thank you to the fantastic speakers for sharing best practices for securing all parts of the protocol stack When it comes to security, even too much is never enough!

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Does anyone know how this is being calculated / tracked? I opened the Eggs mini app and it seems like there's nothing to do in it? How is it #1

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I was 0 km away from today's mystery location 📍. Two days in a row 😎

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I was 0 km away from today's mystery location 📍. Can you beat me?

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Different way of answering the question "why hold a token?" is to ask "what belief does holding this asset enable the owner to express?"

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Read a fiction book for the first time in a LONG time and was able to concentrate for 5 hours straight Checked my phone once, and ended up staying up way later than normal to finish the book

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Would have expected significantly more volume on prediction markets this week given they seem the purest play way to make bets on - rate cuts - probability of a recession - almost anything about the tariffs

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This is really cool from Ohara. One of the newer things I’ve seen in crypto over the past few months https://x.com/tryoharaai/status/1907841494767333501?s=46

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Maybe this time the fundamentals really did change overnight

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