Why are we launching a Liquid Token Fund?

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Vicktoria Klich & Quinn Wilhelm
October 11, 2024

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💡 Fact of the Week
💰 Why did we choose a Liquid Token Fund
🎨 Good Token Design
🤑 Future of Capital Markets
😹 The new Memecoin Jesus
🤖 w3 x Worldcoin
👀 What is Unichain?

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Our Liquid Token Fund

We have decided to launch a Liquid Token Fund. But why are we doing this?

🔑 Flexibility: Our open-ended fund structure allows us to adapt to market liquidity, giving us more agility.

🚀 Access: We invest in liquid tokens, meaning we don’t have to wait for venture rounds or deal with lock-up periods. Instead, we can invest in projects once they’ve already hit key milestones and launched products.

📊 Data-Driven Decisions: By investing at a later stage, we gain access to more data, which helps us make smarter investment decisions.

How to Design a Good Token?

Our friends from Bitpanda bring your favorite event format back to Berlin - w3.pizza (spooky edition):

Here are three reasons to visit us this Halloween 🎃:

  1. Discover the art of effective token design

  2. Connect with the Bitpanda team

  3. Savor delicious treats

Register now to not miss out on our panel discussion, interactive Q&A, networking, and your favorite Web3 Berliners in Halloween costumes.

The Future of Capital Markets

KPMG is looking into blockchain tech for the finance world. They see big changes coming.

What's happening?

Blockchain is set to transform how the finance industry works:

  • It'll make trading and settling securities much easier

  • It allows for "programmable money" - think smart contracts for finance

  • KPMG believes this will create a more efficient financial system

Why it matters:

The current system is old and clunky. Blockchain could streamline everything, making markets work better for everyone.

What's next?

  • More banks and financial firms adopting blockchain tech

  • New EU regulations (MiCA) creating opportunities

  • A race to get blockchain-based financial services to market

The bigger picture:

KPMG sees blockchain as a game-changer for finance. They're helping both crypto companies and traditional banks prepare for this new world.

We interviewed Jens from KPMG in our latest podcast episode.

The Man who’s pumping your Memecoins

Murad Mahmudov is a former finance advisor who discovered Bitcoin and founded Adaptive Capital, a crypto investment group, during the 2017 bull run.

After almost going bankrupt in 2020 due to the COVID crash, he shifted his focus to memecoins. His speech at Token 2049 about memecoins went viral this week:

He published a list of his top 10 memecoin conviction plays with price targets that many consider absurd.

Nevertheless, the tokens, especially $SPX6900, have skyrocketed. Onchain analyst ZachXBT published the 13 wallets that can be attributed to Murad shortly afterwards.

The consensus of the community is that as soon as Murad starts taking profits, this will trigger a selling cascade.

w3 x Worldcoin

Artificial intelligence is emerging at every turn, and more and more work is being handed over. But who verifies human content? Worldcoin tackles this.

They are inviting you for “Proof of humanness and privacy in the age of AI”. Friederike Lumbroso-Baumgartner, the DACH GM of Tools for Humanity, the company behind the Worldcoin Foundation, is giving a talk.

She will tell you all about security and data privacy at Worldcoin, as well as introduce new features.

Unichain - A New Layer 2

Uniswap introduced its own Layer-2 solution called Unichain, designed to act as a liquidity center and enable more efficient cross-chain communication between the rollups.

Unichain is currently in testnet and aims to launch on mainnet later this year, featuring innovations like the Uniswap Validation Network and verifiable block building developed with Flashbots.

Wormhole - Multichain Deep Dive

🗓️ October 17, 2024 6:00 PM

Speed Networking for Professionals & Entrepreneurs in High-Impact Tech

🗓️ October 14, 2024 6:30 PM

Berlin Bootcamp | Hackers League Hackathon - TON Society

🗓️ October 25, 2024 10:00 AM

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