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We’re excited to announce our investment in Arweave, a decentralized platform that enables anyone to store documents and applications forever. While there are other decentralized storage platforms out there, Arweave is offering something completely unique…permanent storage. The protocol does this by using a novel consensus mechanism called proof of access where “miners compete to provide […]
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We’re excited to announce our investment in Arweave, a decentralized platform that enables anyone to store documents and applications forever.
While there are other decentralized storage platforms out there, Arweave is offering something completely unique…permanent storage. The protocol does this by using a novel consensus mechanism called proof of access where “miners compete to provide as many replications of the data held in the system as they can.”
Current and future use cases for permanent storage include:
Arweave is the brainchild of Sam Williams and has one the most active communities out there with over 30k members. More than 50 applications have already been created on top of the protocol, powerfully organized as profit-sharing communities that make it easy (and potentially financially attractive) to contribute to the development of those applications (you can think of these profit-sharing communities as “open source companies” that pay out dividends on profits).
As we are getting more and more excited about the rapid rise and potential of a decentralized web (web 3.0), we are looking forward to seeing Arweave play a crucial role in this process.
Crypto / Blockchain, Portfolio, Version One
We’re excited to announce our investment in Loon, a Canadian company building the country’s first regulated digital dollar. Version One led Loon’s $3M pre-seed round, alongside Garage Capital and a group of strategic Canadian angel investors. Loon is on a mission to create trusted, transparent payment infrastructure for Canada’s digital economy — starting with CADC, […]
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