We're looking for a few key people to join our team and help us build out the future of france
You'll be surrounded by world-class talent working on some of the most interesting problems in the space
More below 👇
COO
@lukedelphi and I are entrepreneurs at heart and we like to move fast. We need a detail-oriented operations exec to complement our skill-set, bringing a bit of structure/discipline to our workflows
This is a key role for a Wags like character to take ownership of
Games Economist
We've been intimately involved with the P2E space from the get-go, designing the token econ and leading seed rounds for @AxieInfinity, @YieldGuild, and others. We're now looking to leverage these learnings and build a FT gaming econ team
NFT Strategist
We see NFTs as a new token econ primitive and are interested in using them to develop gamified experiences across incubated projects. We believe the design space is wide open and are looking for a lead to help us define and execute our strategy
Quantitative Analyst
We're building a risk team to provide quantitative input to governance decisions for protocols we incubate. We're looking for an experienced quant to work with big brains @ayana_eltai, @JonathanErlichL, @michal_crypto to help pioneer new models
Entrepreneur in Residence
We're always looking for great founders/leaders interested in starting crypto projects while leveraging Delphi Labs's infrastructure, brand and network. Whether you have an idea or want to tackle one of ours, we'd love to talk
What do we offer?
Delphi Labs is a builder's paradise. You'll be surrounded by top talent across economics, development, product design, risk, legal and more.
You'll also benefit from the broader @Delphi_Digital hive-mind of 60+ top researchers and big brains
More perks
🔶The culture is relaxed and informal (don't say in words what could better be expressed with a meme)
🔶Work remotely and on your own schedule
🔶Competitive salary + direct ownership upside on projects you work on
🔶Meritocracy
If you're interested, please head over to our job board and apply. You can also DM me but I can't guarantee a response
We'll also be paying 5000 $UST for successful referrals so if you know a good fit for any of these roles, send them our way
Tbh Initia is one of the rare teams I'd back without seeing a deck
It helps I'm also bullish af on what they're building. As @SmokeyTheBera put it: "Betting on these dudes to facilitate the appchain future that Cosmos fumbled"
Thread on Cosmos, what it got right and wrong, and how Initia fixes this 👇
Cosmos had the right core idea: sovereignty and customisability matter
Developers want to control the ground they build on, and I continue to believe that most successful dApps will end up migrating to their own chains/L2s
We've already seen this happen many times with the likes of Ronin, Flow, and Stepn last cycle, dYdX, Hyperliquid and Blast this cycle, and others like Ethena, Maker, and Synthetix launching their own chains/L2s soon
Since this post, I've been speaking to OTC brokers to try and understand secondary market structure for the assets I'm shorting. The findings were pretty revealing so thought I'd share
Many of these assets have active sellers but very few have bids even at ~70% below market price (we're talking standard SAFTs with a 1yr cliff + 2/3yr vest )
In terms of volume, my very rough estimate based on speaking to various brokers is that there's been ~$100m in combined SAFT volume. Considering these are assets with cumulatively tens of billions of dollars of unrealised gains unlocking over the next few years, this is basically dust
To be clear, what you'd want to see for "bullish unlocks"to happen is as low an unrealised gains to market cap ratio (UG2MC) as possible, as explained in the linked post
Most tokens are sitting on massive unrealised gains from team (0 cost basis) and early investors (you can calculate this yourself using something like )cryptorank.io
$ENA is live! @ethena_labs is one of our highest conviction bets this cycle both @delphi_ventures and personally
I believe:
- sUSDe will offer the highest dollar yield in crypto at scale
- USDe will become the largest stablecoin outside of USDC/USDT in 2024
- Ethena will become the highest revenue generating project in all of crypto
Thread on what Ethena is, why I'm excited, and the risks as I see them
@ethena_labs @Delphi_Ventures This turned out pretty long, so if you want to read it in a cleaner format I published it on my Medium here:
I’m back! Took longer than expected, but retreat was followed by a near-death experience while surfing my local break last weekend
Spent the weekend in hospital and the rest of the week recovering at home. Feeling very privileged to be here
Story below for those interested
To celebrate being back home, I went surfing at Guincho beach with a friend - a break I've probably surfed over 200x since I was a young kid
It was pretty big and stormy and after the first set wave kept us under for 15+ seconds, my friend wisely decided to get out right away
I tried to do the same, but the wave I caught ended up pushing me out in front of the rocks on the Muchaxo side. Getting out on the rocks on a day like this is pretty much certain death, so there was no way to get out without first getting out from in front of the rocks
FDV is not a meme - many of you will learn this the hard way this cycle as unlocks hit the market
However, not all FDVs are created equal. The single most important factor in comparing FDVs is figuring out what % of a token's FDV is unrealised profits for investors/team. The higher the % the worse for you as a tokenholder
Very simple example to illustrate this:
Token A and Token B both trade at $10b FDV. Token A raised $200m at $1b and has a 30% team allocation. Token B raised $5m at $100m and has a 20% team allocation
Token A has $1.8b in unrealised profits from investors + $3b from team. Almost 50% of the FDV is unrealised profits
Token B has $500m in unrealised profits from investors + $2b from team. 25% of the FDV is unrealised profits
Token A is a much "heavier" FDV than Token B and you should proceed with care
One confounding factor is volume of secondary transactions since these reset the cost basis and changes the unrealised gains math
However, it's hard to get good data on this and in any case the volume is pretty small compared to where a lot of these are trading rn
In the past I’ve stayed out of Cosmos politics. But, given where I perceive the ecosystem to be and some of the stuff I found out at Cosmoverse, I feel it important to share some thoughts and spur some discussion amongst the community
Thread 👇
At Cosmoverse, I learned that the Interchain Foundation (ICF) spent $50m in 2022. For reference, this is more than the Ethereum foundation (EF) spent during the same time period
Given the state of Cosmos rn, it seems to me this was an ineffective use of capital
Most of the funding was distributed to a small number of development orgs who each focus on different parts of the stack, building out whatever they think is interesting with no clear, centrally coordinated ecosystem vision or strategy that I can discern