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Part 1 - Design Space for Parallel Blockchains

Part I: Design Space for Parallel Blockchains

TLDR: This research piece provides an overview of parallel design architectures for blockchains, using three relevant examples: Solana, Sei, and Monad. It highlights the differences between optimistic and deterministic parallelization and examines the nuances of state and memory access across these chains. Introduction In 1837, computer scientist and mathematician Charles Babbage designed the “Analytical Engine,” […]

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Investing in the Diffusion of Blockchain

Insight / By Craig Burel

Our History It’s been almost eight years since Reciprocal Ventures was founded, and Michael and I began investing in crypto. At that time, the concept of building anything on a blockchain, let alone high quality applications, was still in its infancy. User experience on blockchain was slow and clunky, reminiscent of dial-up internet, crypto conferences

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How Crypto is Changing the World

Leave a Comment / Insight / By Craig Burel

Much has been written about bull market manias in crypto and their ability to draw capital to new ideas, but it’s bear markets where the real work is done. Despite their financial and psychological toll, bear markets are critical to furthering technical innovation and economic opportunity. The dissipation of hype surrounding a technology enables two

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With “FedNow” do we need Crypto Payments?

Leave a Comment / Insight / By Jush Kuzon and Elle Leemay Chen

The recent launch of FedNow in Q3 of 2023 has sparked optimism that there will be a surge in real time payments in the U.S. FedNow has been long awaited but it is unknown if this new program is overhyped or if we truly are on the verge of a payments transformation. This new, advanced and faster payments system also raises the question if crypto has a place in the future of payments? We’ve been investing in the payments sector at Reciprocal Ventures for the past seven years and wanted to address this interesting question.

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Web3: The Age of Abstraction

Leave a Comment / Insight / By Craig Burel

We believe the future of Web3 lies in the hands of developers, the creative innovators who will leverage the unique composability features enabled by smart contract platforms to create novel, killer applications. In order for this to happen, we need to make it easier for developers and companies to build, deploy, manage, and upgrade on-chain

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MEV 2.0: The Rise of MPSVs

Leave a Comment / Insight / By Ali Sheikh

Maximal Extractable Value, or “MEV”, has experienced several major innovations since 2017. The advancement has revolved around two players, Miners and MEV Searchers. One of the largest leaps forward in the MEV space was the creation of Flashbots, which was designed to democratize MEV for these two players. However, as MEV exists today, it still

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TealBook to Power Supply Chain

Insight / By Reciprocal Ventures

Tealbook’s Data Foundation is the single source of truth for a company’s entire supply chain.

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