Jan 13Portfolio Insights: Enabling Omni-chain Liquidity with Rage TradeQuick bites Rage Trade is an omnichain perpetual trading protocol powered by LayerZero, aiming to be capital efficient with deep liquidity Its innovations such as Recycled Liquidity and 80–20 Vaults allow it to be competitive and sustainable when compared to other perpetual trading platforms Delta Neutral Vaults minimize market exposure…Blockchain10 min readBlockchain10 min read
Dec 31, 20222022 End of the year review — Bixin VenturesPreface With Bitcoin and Ethereum hitting all-time highs in 2021, along with DeFi summer and the subsequent NFT boom, the outlook for 2022 was arguably optimistic. Alas looking back, it has been a tumultuous year for crypto to say the least. The year started with a bleak macro outlook as…Cryptocurrency9 min readCryptocurrency9 min read
Dec 23, 2022What happens to Solana now?Preface Solana has always been closely associated with Sam Bankman Fried, FTX and Alameda Research, encapsulated by SBF’s famous tweet back in January 2021.Solana Blockchain15 min readSolana Blockchain15 min read
Dec 15, 2022The road ahead for the NFT marketplacesWith increasing entrants into the NFT marketplace space, Opensea’s dominance as the leading NFT marketplace has been constantly challenged. The increased competition in the space has led to transformative trends, such as marketplaces like X2Y2 and Magic Eden initially choosing to forego royalty requirements. After Opensea opted to enforce royalties…Nft21 min readNft21 min read
Nov 4, 2022GenesysGo: the crucial infra provider on Solana you don’t know aboutOverview GenesysGo is a blockchain infrastructure provider on the Solana network. Their three core areas of operations are (1) Shadow Operators, the RPC layer, (2) Shadow Drive, the decentralised data storage layer and (3) Shadow Cloud, a decentralised Cloud Computing platform. In this article, we look to shed light into each…8 min read8 min read
Oct 25, 2022Censorship Resistance in Bitcoin & EthereumThe Backdrop Earlier this August, the decision by the US treasury department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to add Tornado Cash to its sanction list has put the question of censorship resistance firmly into the spotlight. To remove themselves from any criminal liability, RPC service providers Alchemy and Infura…20 min read20 min read
Oct 21, 2022Portfolio Insights — SwitchboardThe Future of Permissionless Oracles Why do we need a permissionless oracle? Oracles are one of the key components of web3 infrastructure stack that act as a bridge between on-chain and off-chain worlds. Various forms of off-chain data such as market price feeds, exchange rates, weather information and more can be queried by oracles to…Cryptocurrency5 min readCryptocurrency5 min read
Sep 19, 2022Portfolio Insights: AptosBixin Ventures is thrilled to announce our strategic investment into Aptos as part of a broader fundraising round announced by the team in late July, led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto, with further participation from Apollo, Griffin Gaming Partners, Franklin Templeton, Superscrypt, Circle Ventures and continued support from a16z…12 min read12 min read
Sep 18, 2022Structure.fi: Bringing TradFi assets into blockchain through TokenizationFounded in 2020, Structure.fi introduces traditional assets to the blockchain in the form of tokens. It is a centralized trading platform that offers 24/7 trading of cryptoassets, US stocks and ETFs across the globe with fractional trading support on a clean, intuitive mobile UI rarely seen in Web3 applications. Through…Defi11 min readDefi11 min read
Sep 8, 2022Portfolio Insights: Sui By Mysten LabsFor creators & developers; building for the next billion Web3 users On 8 September 2022, Mysten Labs announced the closing of a $300 Million Series B funding round led by FTX Ventures at a $2 Billion valuation, with participation from ourselves, Bixin Ventures, alongside other investors such as A16Z, Jump Crypto, Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures etc. …Mysten Labs12 min readMysten Labs12 min read
