I’m launching Topology, an early-stage venture firm dedicated to frontier technology. We've raised an oversubscribed $75M Fund 1.

Topology backs founders who put everything on the line to bend the arc of human progress.

Meet us at the edge.

@topology_vc For the past 8 years, I’ve been investing in frontier tech: brain computer interfaces, agents, distributed compute, decentralized protocols, semiconductors, new cities, thought decoding etc.

Topology brings institutional scale to this style of investing.

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Gas consumption tells many stories, from the rise of DEXs to the rotation of capital from DeFi to NFTs.

I coded up a viz to explore the top gas guzzlers on Ethereum with data from @nansen_ai.

Some insights below but even better, see what you can find!

gasguzzlers.wtf Rise of MEV.

2022 was the first year a MEV searcher broke into top 10 gas consuming contracts.

research.paradigm.xyz/MEV
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I've been investing in crypto for the last 6 years and angels frequently ask me how to evaluate projects. Here are the steps I generally recommend in running a diligence process for an early-stage crypto investment.

*disclaimer: these are my personal views* 1/ Founder References

In the early stage, the most constant variable in the equation is often team. Find people you respect who know the founders and ask about their strengths, weaknesses, etc.

Ask yourself: Would I work with this person? If yes, that's bullish.

Wrote a bot this weekend to mint NFTs programmatically on Ethereum. Can assure you that using #Flashbots is the neatest way to go about it. 🤖

Huge thank you to @epheph for releasing an awesome tutorial walking through it step-by-step.

Wanna see it in action? Learn more? 👇 Tech Stack:
>> @AlchemyPlatform or @infura_io to access nodes
>> ethers.js to interact with the chain
>> #Flashbots to create and submit transactions

Tutorial:


FakeArtMinter: goerli.etherscan.io/address/0x20ee…