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No. 083Venture thesisBusiness models and services

The invisible tax on the open web

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Create economic and technical mechanisms that compensate open-web publishers when AI agents extract their content while bypassing ads, subscriptions, and direct visits.

No. 073Venture thesisBusiness models and services

Prediction markets go bigger, broader, and smarter

Expand prediction markets into more domains while using crypto and AI to improve liquidity, forecasting, market design, and the resolution of new trust and governance challenges.

No. 075Venture thesisBusiness models and services

Trading as a way station, not the last stop, for crypto businesses

Use trading as an initial wedge without abandoning differentiated, durable products and business models that can outlast speculative demand.

No. 081Venture thesisBusiness models and services

Crypto offers a new primitive for use beyond blockchains

Apply increasingly efficient SNARKs outside blockchains to verify computation, data integrity, privacy, and outsourced work in conventional applications.