As soon as we returned to the office in the new year, we started talking about the projects we’d be thrilled to fund in 2024. Here are our requests for startups (RFS), spanning consumer payments UX, DeFi tooling, gaming, betting and prediction markets, and much more.

In April 2022, we announced an exciting partnership with Alephium (ALPH), an innovative and scalable Layer 1 blockchain. Since its mainnet launch on 8th November 2021, the chain has achieved key milestones, including releasing a bridge, welcoming its first dApps, such as a decentralized exchange (DEX), and launching a full wallets suite.

This is a list of high level statements, predictions and beliefs that relate to the concept of Onchain and to some extent crypto at large. A lot of them—if not all of them—are consensus, obvious and nothing new. I'll likely add to this over time.

Crypto-asset volatility reached all-time lows this summer as lingering damage to confidence from the FTX collapse saw trade volumes trend lower. It was not until August that we saw an end to the downward reaching trend and volumes and volatility began to recover.

Digital assets rebounded sharply in 2023 as market conditions improved across the board and institutional interest accelerated alongside the impending launch of a spot Bitcoin ETF. Looking to 2024, there are a number of important developments on the horizon. In this issue of State of the Network, we offer our perspective on some of the biggest trends to watch in 2024 in the digital assets industry.

As another year wraps up, it's time for that quintessential year-in-review post. For me, 2023 was a year filled with challenges and triumphs, a period of both personal growth and artistic evolution. From exploring new mediums and themes in my art to navigating the ups and downs of a my career, this year has been a challenging journey. Here's a look back at my artistic endeavors in 2023 and a glimpse into the exciting prospects I'm aiming for in 2024.

As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this time and inflation has come down. It seems that a “soft landing” is likely. That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are a necessary support system.

2023 marks 10 years since Pantera became the first institutional asset manager in the US to invest in Bitcoin, recognizing then its tremendous resilience and potential for disruption. This past year in particular has been a testament to the blockchain space’s ability to recover from even the harshest external conditions. From the depths of the “crypto winter” at the beginning of the year, the overall market cap of the crypto space has grown by 90% to $1.69 Trillion, with Bitcoin more than doubling from its yearly low of $16k in Jan 2023 to over $40k in December.

Tokenization has caught the attention this year but will it finally have its moment in 2024? Myles Milston, Co-Founder and CEO of Globacap takes a look at whether tokenization is ready for mass adoption in private markets.

The primary missing piece in DeFi is what it’s sought to avoid: regulation. But over the past 12 months, the UK and EU have made several significant steps towards creating an innovative and enduring digital economy by building out the digital assets regulatory regime.