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The Future of Privacy Tech in Blockchain

By Duncan Nevada, a Hack VC Research Partner 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

Announcing Our Investment in Goldilocks

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 set of DeFi primitives within the Berachain

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

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 protocol that connects DeFi participants with institutional-grade

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 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

Announcing our Investment in (and Alignment with) Aligned Layer

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 entrant into the modular ecosystem. This enables cheaper, more flexible

Investing in Movement Labs

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, and user experience in web3. Background – the Move language To

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

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

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

The Back Door For Crypto Or The Front Door For Walmart?

By Ro Patel, Partner at Hack VC Introduction Crypto has a pervasive problem to which participants have grown numb. While largely ignored, the pressure continues to mount between three key parties: investors, founders, and regulators. The eventual solution will likely be a big bang in the evolution of crypto as

Hack VC Closes $150M Venture Fund I, Bringing AUM to $425M

By Alex Pack and Ed Roman, Co-Founders and Managing Partners, Hack VC We announced today that we have raised $150M for our first venture fund. We raised this fund opportunistically, in a bear market, as a natural extension of our initial $200M seed fund. Collectively, this fund gives Hack VC

Hack VC Leads Series A for Elixir Protocol

We’re pleased to announce that Hack VC has led the Series A financing round for the Elixir Protocol. Elixir is a decentralized Proof-of-Stake network purpose-built to power liquidity across central limit orderbooks. Through Elixir, LPs can provide capital directly to the orderbooks for specific pairs – creating a backbone of

U.S. Crypto Law and Regulation Update: Checks, Balances, and Some Major Questions

By Daniel Bulaevsky, GC at Hack VC, and previously partner and GC at Klaros Group, attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, consultant at Promontory Financial Group, and investment banker at J.P. Morgan. If you’re the founder of a crypto company with some nexus to the U.S.

Hack VC Invests in Nocturne Protocol

We’re pleased to announce our investment in the seed financing round of Nocturne, a next-generation protocol for private Ethereum accounts, along with our friends at Polychain and Bain Capital Ventures. The Demand for Privacy To understand Nocturne, let’s first discuss privacy. Historically in Web2, institutions have been accustomed