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What will the verifiable web look like?

What is the verifiable web and what will it look like? Here, we explore web proofs (aka “zkTLS”) and its use cases. Web proofs enable cryptographic verification of data authenticity and provenance over HTTPS without requiring cooperation from centralized platforms. Zero-knowledge proofs augment web proofs with selective disclosure and privacy. We highlight diverse use cases for web proofs across four key areas: credentials, data integrity, data portability, and data monetization.

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Make Ethereum Whole Again

Based rollups utilize Ethereum’s infrastructure for "based sequencing," improving composability and reducing centralization issues. To overcome Ethereum’s block time constraints, preconfirmations provide fast transaction assurances like centralized sequencers. Based rollups with preconfirmations can reduce fragmentation, improve UX, and balance economic benefits between Ethereum L1 and L2. Not only is this approach highly composable, it is optimal in terms of credible neutrality and security.

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Announcing Our New $70m Fund

We are excited to launch our new $70 million fund, with a clear mandate to help exceptional early-stage projects at the cutting edge of Web3 innovation scale at pace.

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Breaking Down Walled Gardens: Farcaster and Decentralised Social Media

In today's digital ecosystem, users find themselves confined within 'walled gardens' characterised as closed systems under the strict control of monolithic entities. These so-called digital platforms hold sway over user identities, data, and even the relationships between users, unilaterally setting

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Lemniscap Spotlight: Why we are investing in Puffer

Why we are investing in Puffer. Puffer built on EigenLayer, addresses the prevalent challenges in the LSD space through the incorporation of their unique Secure-Signer technology, a remote signing tool specifically designed to bolster validator security and mitigate slashable offences.

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Economics of Play to Earn Gaming Economy

Play to Earn (P2E) Games is the new paradigm in video games that combines DeFi and entertainment to create a new game genre that allows players to make money while playing.

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Collateralised Stablecoins

The topic considered for this research is Collateralized Stable Coins, research downloadable here. Together with Algorithmic Stable Coins, these digital coins are attracting lots of attention from investors and are greatly innovating the world of DeFi with increasingly efficient protocols creating new use cases for users.

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Algorithmic Stablecoins

The topic considered for the first chapter of our research collaboration with Economics Design is Algorithmic Stable Coins. Without going into the details of their operation and the reason for their existence, a topic widely discussed in the research downloadable here, these coins and related projects are attracting a lot of attention.

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Cryptoassets in DeFi derivatives

Along with the research group of the Bocconi Student Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Association, a long time friend of Lemniscap, we stepped back for a moment and turned our attention to the mechanisms of those cryptonetworks, their business models, and their long term sustainability.

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Our brief review of 2018 and outlook for the future

At the start of a new year it is a good time to reflect briefly on what we learned and achieved over the past year and also share some thoughts on what we expect to come next.

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