1 / We just co-led a total of $30M in investments for @GlowFND, a transformational solar acceleration protocol that’s decentralizing the electric grid.

@FortuneMagazine ‘s @CatMcGrath5 covered the news. Link + 🧵👇👇👇 2 / This funding will enhance Glow’s blockchain protocol and drive the expansion of utility-scale solar farms on Glow, starting immediately in India.

bit.ly/48KHfZD

1/ Today, web2 has tools to benchmark comp data like Glassdoor. In web3, founders and employees mostly are flying blind.

To help the community navigate, we are open-sourcing data from across our portfolio to create a comprehensive guide to comp in web3.

bit.ly/3KCUvDh 2/ We originally set out to compile this data to help our portfolio companies with hiring.

However, along the way, we became hyper aware of how lacking this data is across crypto.

Opaque data = bad placements for BOTH startups and job seekers.

1/ We just co-led a $10M round for @Jito_Labs, a MEV infra company building the first 3rd-party validator client for Solana.

We believe Jito Labs' suite of solutions will help scale Solana, curb spam, & make MEV more democratic, transparent, & accessible.bit.ly/3JKFnn2 2/ Jito's client, dubbed "Jito-Solana", gives node operators the ability to earn more revenue via MEV.

Node operators also have the option to connect to Jito's Block Engine, which builds the most profitable and efficient blocks for a validator.

1/ We just led a $10M seed round for @SpaceandTimeDB, a @chainlink-powered, decentralized data warehouse for blockchain apps that can generate analytical insights in a decentralized, low cost, & secure way.

We think Space and Time can bring trustless analytics to web3.

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https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1552641539872014343

2/ Basically, too may decentralized apps rely on centralized databases that can tamper with data, an unacceptable risk for analytics in web3.

Space & Time aims to fix this with an entirely novel protocol model called "proof-of-SQL" that shows users evidence of tampering.

1/ Today, we're excited to announce the launch of the Framework Tent, a token-gated knowledge base for @hiframework's Platform.

Over the next few hours, over 100 NFTs will be minted and provided to Founders in the Framework Ventures Portfolio.

blog.framework.ventures/frameworktent/ 2/ These NFTs will give founders exclusive access to curated lists of recommended partners, providers, and shared knowledge from across our ecosystem.

Over time, we expect this portal to grow into a full-service platform with data, content, events, partnership opps and more.

1/ We just co-led a $10 million round for Chainflip Labs, the company building @Chainflip - a cross-chain AMM with native asset swaps (no wrapped tokens).

Basically, we think Chainflip could be the protocol that finally makes cross chain swaps easy for end users.

A short 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/TheBlock__/status/1524308835539857410

2/ Most cross-chain swap solutions still rely on wrapped or synthetic counter-party assets.

This model is needlessly complex, introduces centralization risks, and results in liquidity fragmentation.