The New Scarcity: Theses for the Post-Foundation Model World

By Harrison Dahme, Research Partner at Hack VC We're in the early-medium stages of a phase shift in the labor market. Programmatic execution is no longer a scarce resource. GPT-3.5 was only ~2.5 years ago and the stochastic flow of attention has crystallized into an undeniable

Why Hack VC Invested in Stable: The Future of Stablecoins

By Rodney Yesep (Partner) and Alex Pack (Founder & Managing Partner) At Hack VC, we invest in crypto projects building at the technical cutting-edge, in the markets that matter the most, and that are most likely to change the world. Stable, a blockchain designed specifically for stablecoins, fits all three,

Why Hack VC Led SOON’s Seed Round

By Alex Botte (Partner), Alex Pack (Founding Partner), & Harrison Dahme (Research Partner) For years crypto developers have faced a dilemma. If they wanted to optimize for user experience (fast finality, low fees), they shipped on Solana. If they wanted the deepest pools of assets and the broadest wallet distribution,

Tari Investment Thesis

By Ed Roman and Alex Pack, Managing Partners at Hack VC We’re excited to announce that the Tari protocol has launched its mainnet.  We are proud to have supported this project from its early days. Our first investment was nearly four years ago and was one of the first

Initia: Appchains As They Should Be

Why Hack VC Co-Led Initia’s Seed Round By Sean Brown, Partner at Hack VC The Issue with Appchains Over the past few years, hundreds of projects have chosen to spin up their own application-specific rollups or “appchains,” searching for customizable infrastructure, isolated blockspace, and tighter verticalization of value capture.

Why Hack VC Led the Series A of Hyperlane

By Sean Brown and Alex Botte, Partners at Hack VC At Hack VC, we believe in partnering with visionary founders who address the fundamental barriers impeding the broader adoption of blockchain technology. Hyperlane is tackling one of the biggest challenges in Web3 today: interoperability, which is why we led their

Why Hack VC Led Babylon's Series A: Our Investment Thesis

By Ed Roman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Hack VC Today we are very proud to see Babylon's network launch. In late 2023, we at Hack VC led Babylon’s Series A financing round, and we’ve been proud supporters of the team since those early days. At

Hack VC Is a Community-Aligned VC: Why We Launched an Echo Group

By Alex Pack, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Hack VC Last week my crypto VC firm launched an Echo group. We are one of the first U.S.-based, regulated, large fund managers to do so. We did it for a simple reason: we believe in democratizing access to crypto

Why Hack VC Led Nillion’s Series A: Our Not-So-Private Investment Thesis

By Alex Botte, Partner at Hack VC At Hack VC, we partner with the boldest founders in Web3 – folks who are building the most cutting-edge blockchain technology. This is exactly why we led Nillion’s Series A. Nillion is developing "humanity's first blind computer," tackling privacy-preserving

Why Hack VC Led the Series A for Berachain

By Peter Hans and Rodney Yesep, Partners at Hack VC At Hack VC, we invest in early stage Web3 infrastructure, AI and decentralized finance projects, backing founders that push the boundaries of what’s possible. Berachain is a great example of this dynamic across Web3 infrastructure and a perfect fit

Why Hack VC Co-Led Solayer's Seed Round

By Alex Botte, Partner at Hack VC At Hack VC, we focus on investments that drive innovation and scalability in the blockchain sector. Over the past few years we have made several investments in the shared security / restaking category. These projects allow users to stake the same tokens they’ve

Hack VC 2024 Wrapped

By Alex Botte, Partner at Hack VC 2024 was a big year for Hack VC. Our mission is to back hackers at the earliest stages that are building the future of the internet. In this recap, we highlight some of the bets we made in that pursuit, and the work

Crypto

Making Moves: Hack VC’s Movement Investment Thesis

By Ed Roman, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Hack VC Today marks an important milestone for one of our portfolio companies, Movement Labs, which today launched its mainnet beta and native token. At Hack VC, we joined its Series A financing round.  This post shares our investment thesis on Movement.

Crypto

Grass - A Data Revolution

By Ed Roman, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Hack VC At Hack VC, we’re proud to have led the Series A financing round for Grass, a decentralized network that rewards users for their unused Internet bandwidth.  The following is our investment thesis on Grass. Executive Summary Generative AI is

Ethereum

Was Modular a Mistake? A Data-Driven Take on Ethereum’s Grand Strategy

By Alex Pack (Managing Partner) and Alex Botte (Partner) Executive Summary * Ethereum has underperformed peers like Bitcoin and Solana. The culprit, at least according to the haters, was Ethereum’s strategic decision to modularize. Is that true? * In the short term, yes. We found that Ethereum’s shift toward a

Cryptography

The Future of Privacy Tech in Blockchain

By Harrison Dahme, Research Partner at Hack VC The transparent ledger of cryptography has fundamentally changed the way we see trusted systems. As the old axiom goes, “don’t trust, verify,” and transparency allows us to do exactly that. If everything is open, any falsification can be flagged. However, this

Blockchain

Announcing Our Investment in Goldilocks

By Rodney Yesep, Partner at Hack VC We’re thrilled to announce that Hack VC has led the latest investment round in Goldilocks, a grassroots, community-first DAO on Berachain. Goldilocks stands out by bringing together day-one Berachain supporters, builders, and community members, all dedicated to developing and governing a unique

Crypto

Investing in Chateau: Bringing Composable Private Equities and Funds On-Chain

By Alex Botte, Partner at Hack VC We are thrilled to announce our lead investment in Chateau’s pre-seed round!  Chateau is a protocol that brings TradFi’s private equity and fund investments on-chain, providing DeFi participants with access to these private market opportunities. What is Chateau? Chateau is a

Crypto

Potential Solutions to Crypto's Vesting Problem

By Ro Patel, Partner at Hack VC The Status Quo of Token Vesting A trend in this current market cycle is tokens launching with high valuations and low initial circulating supply (in other words “low float / high FDV tokens”), which has raised concerns in the crypto community about sustainable upside

AI

AI x Crypto - Promises and Realities

By Ed Roman, Managing Partner at Hack VC AI is one of the hottest and most promising categories in crypto markets recently.  💡Decentralized AI training  💡GPU DePINs  💡Uncensored AI models Are these breakthroughs or just buzzwords? 🤔 At Hack VC, we're cutting through the noise to separate promise from

Blockchain

Announcing our Investment in (and Alignment with) Aligned Layer

By Ed Roman, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Hack VC We’re proud to announce today that Hack VC has led the Series A financing round into Aligned Layer. Aligned Layer is a protocol with an ambitious goal. They’re creating a universal proof verification and aggregation layer—a new

Crypto

Investing in Movement Labs

By Ed Roman, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Hack VC We’re pleased to announce today our investment into the Series A financing round for Movement Labs.  Movement Labs is creating a network of modular chains based on the Move programming language.  The goal is to increase the security, performance,

Crypto

10 Things to Consider When Preparing for your Token Generation Event (TGE)

By Ed Roman, Managing Partner at Hack VC This article covers a series of considerations for successful web3 protocol token launches. These ideas have been curated from hands-on experience at Hack VC assisting our portfolio companies with token launches over recent years.  The information herein is for general information purposes

AI

hack.labs() Open-Source Release: Python Uniswap Utilities to Monitor Positions and Liquidity

By Ian Masters, Senior Quant Trader at Hack VC hack.labs() hack.labs() is Hack VC’s in-house tech platform that supports our funds by operating, monitoring and testing the on-chain aspects of our funds’ portfolios. The team focuses on on-chain infrastructure and off-chain integrations, and the development of related

Crypto

Unbundling MEV Supply Chain Part 1: History and Evolution

By Chris Maree, Venture Partner at Hack VC Introduction Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) has become increasingly prevalent over the last few years, drawing parallels with high-frequency trading in traditional markets but operating within the realm of decentralized systems. At its core, MEV refers to the value that can be extracted