Ash sits down with Archetype’s newest team member, Dmitriy Berenzon, for a wide ranging conversation. The two discuss the crypto ecosystems of NYC and SF, hardware becoming cool again, weird stuff at the intersection of AI and blockchain, and being both thesis and founder driven.

Dmitriy is the newest Partner here at Archetype, and will be driving research, investments, portfolio support, and fund strategy. He was previously a Research Partner at 1k(x), where he focused on research, investments, and working with founders on fundraising, business development, and token model design. 

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⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

1:05 Dmitriy’s background

3:18 NYC vs. SF crypto ecosystems

8:30 What Dmitriy is on the lookout for in 2024

10:49 Today’s crypto infrastructure

12:46 UX and abstraction

15:17 Building for consumers and crypto-natives

19:13 DePIN, DeVIN, and hardware becoming cool again

23:47 Digiphysical

27:16 Modular vs. monolithic

30:34 Will Solana become modular?

32:46 ZK potential

39:16 AI meets crypto

44:31 Being thesis and founder driven

47:49 Outro

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Ash: https://twitter.com/AshAEgan

Dmitriy: https://twitter.com/dberenzon

Archetype: https://twitter.com/archetypevc

🌐 LINKS

Archetype: https://www.archetype.fund/

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Another rollercoaster of a year in crypto has come and gone. To kick off 2024, we reached out to some founders and builders to get their takeaways from 2023 and perspectives on where crypto is headed in the new year. 

Our guests for this episode are:

• Ash Egan, Founder of Archetype
• Asta Li, Co-founder of Privy
• Nick Johnson, Lead Developer of ENS
• Sheila Warren, CEO of Crypto Council for Innovation

There’s a lot to be excited about, but some common threads formed around web3 social, onchain gaming, continued progress on the UX front, and crypto finally reaching consumers in a meaningful way. 

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0:00 Intro

1:15 Biggest crypto developments

12:03 Themes we’re excited about

14:25 Predictions for this year’s crypto apps

15:18 What keeps us excited

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Ash: https://twitter.com/AshAEgan

Asta: https://twitter.com/asta_li

Nick: https://twitter.com/nicksdjohnson

Sheila: https://twitter.com/sheila_warren

Archetype: https://twitter.com/archetypevc

Katherine: https://twitter.com/katherineykwu

🌐 LINKS

Archetype: https://www.archetype.fund/

Privy: https://www.privy.io/

ENS: https://ens.domains/

CCI: https://cryptoforinnovation.org/

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DISCLAIMER: The information in this video is the opinion of the speaker(s) only and is for informational purposes only. You should not construe it as investment advice, tax advice, or legal advice, and it does not represent any entity's opinion but those of the speaker(s). For investment or legal advice, please seek a duly licensed professional.

On this episode of Archebyte, Katherine Wu and fellow Archetype team member, Nick Pai, are joined by the CEO and co-founder of Risk Labs, Hart Lambur, to talk bridges, L2s, and interoperability.

Hart and Risk Labs are best known for creating UMA, an optimistic oracle, and Across Protocol, a crosschain bridge. In the multichain future that is quickly becoming the present, infrastructure like oracles, bridges, and sequencers play crucial roles. But, these tools that are meant to facilitate interoperability between blockchains still have plenty of room for improvement.

During our conversation, we dig into the problems that bridges currently face, how Across is designed to mitigate them, and what a safer multichain ecosystem looks like. Hart and Nick give their thoughts on centralized, decentralized, and shared sequencers, intents, and the role aggregators play in regards to bridges. They also answer the loaded question - are bridges L2s?

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0:00 Intro

2:10  The bridging problem

5:30 How Across works

8:15 Making safe bridges

15:31 L2s and centralized vs decentralized sequencers

20:05 Sequencer misconceptions?

23:35 Aggregators in bridging

27:03 L2 metrics for success

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Hart: https://twitter.com/hal2001

Nick: https://twitter.com/mountainwaterpi

UMA: https://uma.xyz/
Across: https://across.to/

Archetype: https://twitter.com/archetypevc

Katherine: https://twitter.com/katherineykwu

🌐 LINKS

UMA: https://uma.xyz/ 
Across: https://across.to/

Risk Labs: https://risklabs.foundation/

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