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Gas Gas Revolution

Tom Tunguz

As storage & compute became less expensive, the economic viability of new use cases became increasingly apparent & developers built software on the cloud. The same cost-reduction phenomenon is occurring with blockchains, though it’s not nearly as well publicized. The cost to save data to a blockchain is called gas.

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Web3 in SaaS Clothing

Tom Tunguz

The cloud (web2 software & infrastructure) has captured 40%+ of a $1.5t In that transition, web3 software & infrastructure companies will shed their language of wallets, blockchains, & tokens for terms most buyers understand : accounts, databases, & credits. annual spend on software.

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Which Categories of Seed Startups are Thriving? Which Aren't?

Tom Tunguz

Blockchain - another exponential curve that shows growth from 0 to 200 startups in eight years. Blockchain is clearly the category with the steepest slope. The world has moved on from MapReduce jobs and is reverting to other data sources that speak SQL natively or are cloud-native. Social Media - Facebook went public in 2012.

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What's Better than a Cookie? A Wallet - How Crypto Will Revolutionize Marketing

Tom Tunguz

The wallet architecture also eliminates the opaque sea of intermediaries clouding the ad marketplace. Obstacles exist: Blockchain transaction costs are real, but fees will fall over time. The incumbent marketing hegemons aren’t prepared for this new world with limited knowledge of blockchains and systems architected for cookies.

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Tokens as CAC - Are Crypto Companies More or Less Efficient in Acquiring Customers?

Tom Tunguz

When a user spins up a validator to verify transactions on a blockchain, stresses the testnet and is rewarded with tokens, stakes tokens to generate yield, burns tokens to transact, or receives an airdrop for tweeting, a cryptoco expends tokens to acquire a customer. Until then, buidl and hodl. – Footnotes. [1]

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia. It provides smart hardware self-development and cloud service. Based in: Hong Kong.

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How QuikNode is Handling Growth in the Blockchain Industry

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QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. Table of Contents. Where Web 2.0