The End of Scale: Blockchains, Community, & Crypto Governance

We are excited to introduce the Outlier Ventures vision of the future and our investment thesis: The Convergence Ecosystem. The new data value ecosystem see data captured by the Internet of Things, managed by blockchains, automated by artificial intelligence, and all incentivised using crypto-tokens. For a summary of the thesis take a look at the introductory blog, today I want to take a deeper look at how important communities, governance and politics will play in this new era.
Are We In A Crypto Winter? Back To The Future II

So on 12th Jan (2018) I wrote a post saying there needed to be a ‘Crypto Winter’: a sustained minimum 50% haircut on the market. I actually wanted to say 75% but compromised with the team to not sound too alarmist. Next time I won’t be so restrained 😉
Introducing the Convergence Ecosystem

Here we introduce the Outlier Ventures vision of the future and our refined thesis: The Convergence Ecosystem. Download the full paper here.
Essential Strategies To Manage Token Velocity

The main objective in cryptoeconomics is to design token economies that will grow in utility value over the long haul.
Making Things Happen in Crypto: Developers, Developers, Developers!

The long-term success of token economies and the protocols they are built around is led by fundamentals, and ultimately adoption. How useful is the protocol, to how many end users? This question is fundamental to our vision of the Convergence Economy.
Cleaning up crypto, let’s get back to the future!

2017 has been one hell of a year for everyone in crypto. However, like all those who have been involved professionally for many years now, on the one hand we feel vindicated (and a little wealthier), on the other hand frustrated.