Posts tagged BitClout
User-Generated Finance and Cultural Financial Instruments, via Snoop Dogg, Dapper Labs, and $1.5B Decentralized Social
User-Generated Finance and Cultural Financial Instruments, via Snoop Dogg, Dapper Labs, and $1.5B Decentralized Social

The structure of capital markets precedes the innovations that come from it. High frequency trading, passive ETF investing, SPACs, and crypto assets all telegraphed their value proposition before becoming large and meaningful in scale. We are now seeing a new market shape emerge, one that starts with community and builds up into financial instruments that are cultural and social. This analysis looks at the most recent developments in the overlap between decentralized social and cultural work and related financial features.

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exchanges / cap mkts, visual art, NFTs and digital objects, metaverse, identity and privacy, social & community, marketingLex SokolinSnoop Dogg, Gordon Gekko, Flashbots, Chromie Squiggle, Crypto Punks, Legg Mason, TikTok, Sorare, Palm Protocol, Dapper Labs, Friends with Benefits, Lil Miquela, BitClout, DeSo, Loot, Nouns DAO, SharkDAO
Getting paid now for future performance with Pipe's $150MM raise and BitClout's $200MM of Bitcoin
Getting paid now for future performance with Pipe's $150MM raise and BitClout's $200MM of Bitcoin

This week, we look at:

  • Pipe’s $150 million raise at a $2 billion valuation to turn annualized revenue run-rate into a new peer-to-peer asset class

  • BitClout’s $200 million of Bitcoin contributions and its mechanisms to turn social media profiles into digital assets

  • How both projects trade future performance for current monetization

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crypto, digital lending, monetization / commercial, social & communityLex SokolinPipe, BitClout, Bitcoin