Viktor Bunin

Viktor Bunin

By Medium August 08, 2023 In Algorand, Aurora, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Ethereum

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Investing in Alluvial

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment into Alluvial’s Series A via Credibly Neutral, our new early-stage venture fund investing in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS (learn more here). The round is co-led by our good friends at Ethereal Ventures and Variant. Alluvial is a software development…

Announcing Credibly Neutral

Lisa Cuesta and I are incredibly proud to launch Credibly Neutral, a $5.5m builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50–250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS solutions. The Future is Crypto The world is pretty good today, but we think it’ll be even better when it’s powered by decentralized technologies. When we got into…

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Investing in EigenLayer

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our angel investment into EigenLabs’ seed round (the team behind EigenLayer) led by Polychain and Ethereal. EigenLabs has since also raised an A led by our friends at Blockchain Capital, which we’re extremely excited about. EigenLayer enables Ethereum validators to do more…

Investing in Turnkey

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our angel investment into Turnkey’s seed round led by Sequoia, with participation from Variant and Coinbase. How many transactions per second do you think will occur in the crypto ecosystem once we reach broad adoption? For reference, Visa does a max of…

Investing in Towns

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce that Credibly Neutral, our new early-stage venture fund investing in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS, invested in Towns’ Series A led by a16z with participation from Benchmark and Framework Ventures. What’s wrong with web2 communities? *Gestures wildly at everything* Walled gardens, inconsistent…

Investing in Monad

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment in Monad’s seed round to scale the EVM to a billion transactions per day. We’re making this investment out of Credibly Neutral, our new early-stage venture fund specializing in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is…

How to fail upward after being laid off

Other than my current role, I’ve been laid off from every full time job I’ve had since graduating from college. …

Investing in POAP

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment in POAP to increase the depth of peoples engagement with our social surroundings under conditions of scale. Describing POAP has levels; there’s the lowest level (NFTs for doing stuff), the highest level (accelerating human development), and everything in between. …

Investing in Entropy

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment in Entropy’s pre-seed round to build the first ever truly trustless Decentralized Asset Custodian protocol. …

Investing in KYVE

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment in KYVE’s second funding round, alongside the incredible Ashley Tyson of Hypersphere Ventures and Garrett MacDonald of Permanent Ventures, and strategic ecosystem partners including protocol founders and foundations. When Pierre Chuzeville interviewed me on my angel investing as part of…

Advising Obol

Today I am proud to announce that I am joining Obol Network as an advisor, with a focus on incentive design, protocol development, and community. I’ve known Collin Myers for over three years and I am incredibly excited to support him and the team on this breakthrough technology. Obol Network…

Investing in Aurora

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment in Aurora’s first funding round alongside Pantera Capital, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and over 100 other investors from the broader crypto ecosystem. The Ethereum ecosystem is at an inflection point as dapps, wallets, users, exchanges, and everyone else, works to…

Code is Law and Cultural Code

Last week a ‘free money’ bug on Compound caused some users to be able to claim far more COMP than they were supposed to, creating an estimated potential max loss of $147m / 490k COMP to the protocol. …

Investing in Goldfinch

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment in Goldfinch’s seed round alongside a16z and existing investors including Variant, Slow Ventures, and Coinbase Ventures. While the benefits of using a decentralized lending network are available today, friction in the user experience and a steep learning curve limit usage…

Proof of Stake’s security model is being dramatically misunderstood

Proof of Stake’s security model is being dramatically misunderstood. The biggest obstacle to understanding its security model is applying existing security frameworks to it. More specifically, the only security model we’ve come close to understanding is Proof of Work (PoW) so we take its security characteristics and transfer them over…

Bison Trails

Bison Trails is supporting Algorand’s mainnet launch

After working with the Algorand team for close to a year, we are proud to announce that Bison Trails will be supporting the Algorand mainnet launch! We will democratize access to the Algorand network by making it easy for anyone to run enterprise-grade Algorand nodes using the Bison Trails platform. …

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The Challenges of Running Blockchain Infrastructure

Running a node is almost like magic — anyone can be part of a special cohort securing the chain, participating in consensus, and having an unstoppable entryway to a global economy. …

Token distribution in perspective: Livepeer’s merkle mine not as successful as portrayed

Token generation & distribution has always been a top concern for anyone seeking to establish truly decentralized networks. We’ve seen many methods attempted, but it remains quite challenging to distribute tokens fairly to real users (not speculators) while avoiding concentration of wealth. So as a token designer, I was very…

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