The Goldfish Who Got Rugged
Why We Liquid Stake with ether.fi (and the Importance of Self-Custody)
by
Or Harel
October 26, 2023

Once upon a time, In the deep, Cryptocean, There swam a goldfish, His name was: Salmon Bankriver Fries.

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Rebirth of Privacy: A New Beginning to End-to-End Encryption
Our investment in Fhenix
by
Or Harel
September 26, 2023

In our digital age, data breaches and unwarranted data scraping pose significant threats, not just to individual privacy but to business potential and growth. Encryption isn't merely a tool to shield information; it serves as a foundation upon which businesses can thrive. By incorporating advanced encryption, businesses unlock new opportunities. These range from streamlined data sharing without compromising sensitive information, to confidently expanding into sectors with stringent data protection requirements, and even transforming DAOs, dApps, and other crypto-based projects and protocols.

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Guardians of the Chains: How Forta's Bots Protect Blockchains with Their New Incentive Structure
by
Or Harel
August 8, 2023

Just another day in the crypto world, and yet another high-profile exploit. The recent victim, Curve Finance, saw over $100M of crypto assets at risk, which sent shockwaves throughout the community and dragged the CRV token down with it. Such incidents bring back into focus the dire need for a robust multi-layered defense in the crypto realm.

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Control Yourself: The Key to Keeping the World Computer Running
Bringing the Web3 ethos back to liquid staking: our investment in ether.fi
by
Or Harel
February 28, 2023

Every few years, crypto gets a rude awakening about the importance of the ethos at its heart: decentralization and self-custody. We all know the mantra “Not your keys, not your coins”, but in “good times” short memory, greed, or a combination of both make some forget and think “This time it’s different”.

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Squid Router: Crossing the Cross-chain Chasm
One Click Away From Native Cross-Chain Interoperability
by
Or Harel
February 23, 2023

I love clichés. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been looking for rules that can explain “everything”. Clichés are clichés because they are universal. They are (mostly) timeless and (mostly) true everywhere (across cultures). They are so self-evident and obviously true, that “everyone” keeps repeating them, even centuries after they were first articulated.

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Part 3: Tokenomics – the AGIs
by
Or Harel
December 20, 2022

Better questions help us think more deeply, critically and creatively, expanding our perspective and leading to more innovative and effective solutions. Additionally, better questions can help us to engage more fully with the problem at hand, clarify our thinking and focus our efforts. Asking the right questions results in fully aligned project goals, values and vision.

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Taming Fire
Decentralized RPC for Uncensored Web3: Our Investment in Lava
by
Or Harel
September 22, 2022

The past year has illustrated just how important decentralization is. Canada’s authorities froze bank accounts, Ukraine's authorities limited the withdrawal limit to $3K per civilian, and Russians around the world were removed from the international SWIFT system. All of these actions were carried out with a click of a button. 

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A Journey to the Future of Blockchains
The Hero with a Thousand Use Cases - Our Investment in Odsy
by
Amos Meiri
August 18, 2022

Convergence of Exponentials: In 1965, Gordon Earle Moore, then director of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductor, discovered a wondrous phenomenon. Moore observed that the number of components (transistors, resistors, diodes, or capacitors) in a dense integrated circuit had doubled approximately every 18 months. He speculated that it would continue to do so for the next ten years.

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A Stride Across the Cosmos
Our Investment in Stride
by
Or Harel
July 29, 2022

Choice. Like fish oblivious to their surrounding water, choice is another modern ”thing” we often take for granted. Free will, and the facility to do as we please and govern our own life, is what separates us, humans, from animals, trees, and rocks.

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Part 2: Tokenomics – The Builder's Handbook: A Practical Guide
by
Or Harel
April 29, 2022

PREVIOUSLY ON TOKENOMICS… In our first post, we explained what Tokenomics is, explored some common misconceptions around Tokenomics (and Tokenmetrics), and discussed why it's such an important concept to master. If you haven't yet read it, it’s a good place to start.

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Part 1: Tokenomics – the Engine, the Fuel and the Generator
by
Or Harel
April 20, 2022

What is Tokenomics? Like many concepts in the crypto world, Tokenomics is an ambiguous concept with different interpretations, depending on whom you ask. In this series of “essays”, we will try to demystify, explain and present (as simply as possible) a framework for understanding and designing an optimal tokenomic model. We’ll examine the many filters we use, when assessing a project’s prospect, to better understand what are the building blocks. Finally, we will show how we bring together these blocks, to build and optimize an ecosystem’s Tokenomics.

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The New Ad Inventory - Embed.xyz
Introducing Embed: Our First Protocol Incubation
by
Amos Meiri
April 13, 2022

NFTs will be the new ad inventory of the internet. That's a hypothesis we’ve had at Node for a while. But how will it play out? Is the timing right? What's the most relevant business/protocol? ‍We’ve realized that marketing in the metaverse is all about brands building web3 communities. ‍While exploring this hypothesis, we’ve been waiting to see two important milestones:

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The Robot Revolution
DnD - On Vocation: Our Investment in Rebel Bots
by
Or Harel
January 18, 2022

Who Has the Biggest Brain? was a brain training social video game by Playfish, published on Facebook in early 2009. It was played 500 million times by over 15 million Facebook users, which was, at that time, a massive success. The game consisted of 4 minigames focused on memory, math and spatial games to get a “brain score”. Once completed, a leaderboard showed both the player's Facebook photo plus core, and that of their nearest competitors and friends.

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Combine & Conquer
Our Investment in C3 Protocol
by
Or Harel
November 23, 2021

For many people, money and finance are loaded terms. Leading thinkers in both the financial and education fields have raised the interesting, yet perplexing query of why we still don’t offer financial education as part of everyone’s 12-year journey throughout the school system. Though it’s hard to imagine, not so long ago in the human evolution timeline, only the selected few knew how to read, write or use basic arithmetic.

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- And Enjoy the Process
Play with Your Monkey on the Sun: Our Investment in MonkeyBall
by
Or Harel
November 3, 2021

Follow your passion. Such a cliché, right? If you watched some motivational videos in the past decade you must have encountered Steve Jobs’s commencement speech for Stanford’s graduating class of 2005. It was not long after Jobs had recovered from cancer, which gave the speech an even more epic effect. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle”. Mic-drop.

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Loot Past & Future
A deep dive into the LootVerse
by
Eyal Alsheich
October 31, 2021

Over the past month I’ve taken a deep dive into the LootVerse, as a developer/gamer/investor, and here’s what I found in a three min read.

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The Algorithmic Liquidation-Protecting Yield-Optimizer
Higher yields and added safety: Nexus Protocol launches with Node Capital investment
by
Or Harel
October 6, 2021

Morning. Your phone’s snooze function failed you (again). You frantically get ready for work, haphazardly throwing yesterday’s leftovers over the stove while you complete the rest of your rushed morning routine.

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A SubQuery to Supercharge Your Insights
How to become wiser in the money-information era: our investment in SubQuery
by
Or Harel
October 1, 2021

Data has been, is, and will continue to be the linchpin resource. It’s the element separating the good from the great. the Alpha(bet) and the Omega. You get the point. But, as data keeps growing exponentially, we are drowning in data - but starving for wisdom.

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Add Forta to your protocol
Our investment in Forta
by
Amos Meiri
September 30, 2021

The crypto industry is built upon a new, decentralized foundation whereby the code is the law. This allows innovation, in the form of new types of contracts, to replace the old, centralized system with its friction-prone, single point of failure. Code (compared to traditional agreements), enables much more creativity and flexibility to generate value. At the same time it’s open, which means the best talents in the world can take advantage, with tangible and immediate rewards for anyone who can identify a vulnerability.

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Hello world.
by
Amos Meiri
October 1, 2021

Our story begins with the Satoshi White Paper. In 2012 we saw the banks collapse in Cyprus; we saw lines of people - unable to withdraw their own money - waiting to withdraw just 50 Euros as their daily budget. We realized that, while we understand how today’s financial industry works, it’s a whole different thing to be personally impacted by it.

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