Trust people, not companies
So, as people come to trust institutions less and peers more; the pitch could be: trust people, not Big Tech. Or trust people, not companies. Blockchains are a part of a much bigger social movement, the changing nature of trust.
Thick Clients, No Servers aka Web3
The logical extension of “Thick Clients, Thin Servers” is non-existent servers. Go full peer-to-peer.
Base Camp Application Guide
Outlier Ventures opens applications for the Base Camp accelerator programs twice a year per city in various locations. After the success in London, we are expanding to Berlin!
18 Predictions for 2020
Over 11 years since the creation of Bitcoin, 2020 will be the year we follow the S-Curve of technology diffusion out of the period of Installation and into Deployment, where we see ‘synergy’ and ‘consolidation’ of the technology begin to take effect. Blockchain will finally grow up, with institutional money trickling into the market based on fundamentals – real traction and usage.
Investments in Blockchain 2019: $23.7 Billion raised by 3738 blockchain companies since 2013
A new study of blockchain investments by Outlier Ventures in early-stage rounds reveals that $23.7 billion has been raised since 2013 with focus moving from purely cryptocurrency to new applications.
Diffusion 2019: 15 Protocols, 25m+ lines of open source code, 2 days of hacking
For the first time since 2013, Outlier Ventures and 15 protocols including Fetch.AI, Cosmos, IOTA, Chainlink, Enigma, Sovrin, Evernym, Haja Networks, Agoric Systems, Ocean Protocol, FOAM, Alkemi, RightMesh and SEED have come together for a combined dev con, “Diffusion” to build an alternative web.
