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May 19

Verda Ventures: Framework for Assessing Teams

While industry and market analysis is critical to understanding the opportunity and Verda relies heavily on data and financials to support investment decisions, it’s ultimately teams that execute on the opportunity at every stage. …

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Verda Ventures: Framework for Assessing Teams
Verda Ventures: Framework for Assessing Teams

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Apr 21

Verda Ventures: Measuring Impact

This article reviews how Verda approaches measuring positive impact and the scope of our efforts thereto. Verda believes positive externalities should be systematically considered in investment decisions. We also believe considering these positive externalities is not mutually exclusive with a positive return, indeed, we look for situations where it’s additive…

Impact Investing

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Verda Ventures: Measuring Impact
Verda Ventures: Measuring Impact
Impact Investing

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Feb 26

Verda Ventures: Framework for Markets and Industries

Verda has received inbound inquiries from partners on how we look at markets. Fundamentally, we believe that for a project to reach maximum positive impact, it must first have a sustainable (profitable) business model. Thus, before measuring the impact of a ReFi project (defined here), we are looking at the…

Investing

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Verda Ventures: Framework for Markets and Industries
Verda Ventures: Framework for Markets and Industries
Investing

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Sep 1, 2022

Defining ReFi and Its Potential

I am writing this to provide a succinct reference for what ReFi is to advance the conversation beyond definitions. For a ReFi deep dive, see John Ellison’s “What is ReFi?” article here or Packy McCormick’s “Building a Regenerative Economy” here. A working definition of Regenerative Finance (ReFi), Open Finance, or…

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Defining ReFi and Its Potential
Defining ReFi and Its Potential

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Apr 5, 2021

Aligning Interests: Why “Crypto” Unravels Inequality

Interest misalignment is a core component of society’s systematic inequality. Blockchain networks offer a new incentive structure that can better align interests in which “employees” and “shareholders” are one-in-the-same. This better interest alignment could be a solution to today’s inequality. In our modern capitalist economy, parties can be broadly categorized…

Cryptocurrency

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Aligning Interests: Why “Crypto” Unravels Inequality
Aligning Interests: Why “Crypto” Unravels Inequality
Cryptocurrency

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Aug 9, 2020

Finding the Perfect Stablecoin

Alongside usability, volatility* is one of the largest inhibitors to mainstream cryptocurrency adoption. Stablecoins have the potential to make payments anywhere as easy, fast, and cheap as sending an email while ensuring that your purchasing power remains intact.

Defi

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Finding the Perfect Stablecoin
Finding the Perfect Stablecoin
Defi

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·Mar 13, 2020

Understanding CELO Allocation: Estimated Circulating Supply Over Time

In follow-up to the recent Medium Post How Much Could You Earn on Celo?, we’d like to provide a month-by-month breakdown of the anticipated circulating CELO (Celo’s Native Asset) post-Mainnet release.* …

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Understanding $CELO Allocation: Estimated Circulating Supply Over Time
Understanding $CELO Allocation: Estimated Circulating Supply Over Time

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Jul 2, 2019

Why Bitcoin (and Only Bitcoin) Needs Proof of Work

The comment I receive most on why Bitcoin won’t work is its significant energy consumption. Most comments sound something like, “If Bitcoin were a country, it’d rank XXth in terms of energy consumption. There are many more energy efficient alternatives for reaching consensus1.” …

Bitcoin

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Why Bitcoin (and Only Bitcoin) Needs Proof of Work
Why Bitcoin (and Only Bitcoin) Needs Proof of Work
Bitcoin

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Jul 2, 2019

5 Reasons You Should NOT Use Blockchain

I frequently receive the question, “should I use blockchain for [fill in the use-case]?” In many cases, the answer is no. Below is a reference to five reasons blockchain may NOT make sense for your business and a simple framework for understanding when blockchain does make sense. …

Blockchain

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Blockchain

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Oct 23, 2018

Stablecoins: Payment’s Final Destination or a Gateway Currency?

Volatility has been a large obstacle to cryptocurrencies becoming more widely used for payments. Stablecoins are an attempt to overcome this challenge by holding a steady price (usually relative to fiat). However, using stablecoins requires putting your trust in whoever is supposed to remain the peg behind the coin. This…

Bitcoin

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Stablecoins: Payment’s Final Destination or a Gateway Currency?
Stablecoins: Payment’s Final Destination or a Gateway Currency?
Bitcoin

3 min read

Alex Witt

Alex Witt

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General Partner at Verda Ventures

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