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The Impact of Blockchain on SaaS

Tom Tunguz

The blockchain is a technical advance. Over time, the blockchain’s distributed database will find important applications in business, and funding will follow. Blockchain startups have already targeted major buyers of software, from email security products to job marketplaces, from legal products to human resources software.

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Why We'll See More New Types of Web3 Apps in the Next Year

Tom Tunguz

On the other hand, the Defi (decentralized finance) sector enjoys more consistent revenue patterns. In January, L1s (blockchains) generated 78% of revenue across public web3 projects. As blockchains look to foster healthy ecosystems, they will need to build a portfolio of application developers across different categories.

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GTM 103: Blockchain’s Impact on Finance and Investing with Annelise Osborne

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Annelise Osborne is Chief Business Officer at Kadena, a Layer 1, POW blockchain where she is focused on upgrading finance. Annelise has 20 years of experience in traditional finance and seven years in digital assets. Her book, From Hoodies to Suits: Innovating Digital Assets in Traditional Finance , hit shelves in June.

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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

Can you imagine a site reliability engineer managing 15 to 20 tokens, coordinating with finance teams to ensure proper treasury management, while ensuring high uptime? Migrate the database (blockchain) and the file system to ensure on-chain asset ownership survives the company. It’s too much complexity for a simple static blog.

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Building a $20b Behemoth : Office Hours with Steven Goldfeder of Offchain Labs

Tom Tunguz

Steven authored many of the seminal papers behind modern blockchains. Arbitrum is a L2, a layer 2, that sits atop Ethereum, improving its performance & cost to write transactions. More than innovating technically, Steven has guided Offchain Labs’ developer relations strategy in a unique way in the ecosystem.

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An Era of Fundamental and Massive Change - The Capital Markets Innovation of the ICO

Tom Tunguz

The technology innovation catalyzed by Bitcoin and Blockchain is creating many multibillion dollar economies quickly. They financed the development and deployment of switches, routers, modems and the installation of copper lines to connect new data centers. The ICO market today bears many similarities to the dotcom era.

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Five Predictions for 2022

Tom Tunguz

Silicon Valley falls to below 20% in all venture financing. Blockchain technologies become mainstream driven by the adoption of national reserve banks. Scoring last year’s predictions: Working remotely for a year changes how we work forever. Absolutely this happened. Friends have relocated to different cities.

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