Notes from the frontier.

We're excited to participate in Infinia's $13.5 million Series A led by Bain Capital Crypto and Variant.

Announcing our Pre-Seed Investment in Daya

Investing in Charms' Pre-Seed Round

Kairos is building a first of its kind on-chain interest rate swap protocol.

A look back on crypto seed investments made in 2023.

Today Takenos announced their seed round co-led by Lattice and Variant.

Crypto and Coala Pay can eliminate aid dollars lost to intermediaries, increasing the amount of funds reaching those in grave need.

Today we are excited to announce our co-lead investment alongside VanEck Ventures into Manifest, the protocol bringing institutional-grade U.S. real estate on chain.

Today, we are proud to announce our investment into Accrue, dedicated to revolutionizing cross-border payments in Africa.

How ZK will usher in the next generation of crypto applications, networks, and users

Today, we are proud to announce our investment into Glow, an incredibly ambitious project to power the planet with the power of the Sun.

We're excited to announce our investment in Blockcast, a community-driven content delivery network (CDN).

An analysis of the 2022 Seed Stage Projects

We are electrified to announce our investment in Daylight’s Series A, led by a16z Crypto. Daylight is building a distributed energy platform powered by crypto rails.

We are thrilled to announce our investment in Caldera’s Series A, led by Founders Fund. Caldera is the leading rollup deployment platform.

Chainlink Empire Vulnerable to Uprising Oracles

We're excited to announce our investment in Unstable, a LST/LRT native lending protocol.

We’re excited to announce our investment in Midas, which is building the mTBILL token, that tracks short-dated U.S. Treasury securities 1:1 via an ultra-liquid BlackRock Treasury Bond.

We’re excited to announce our investment in Coala Pay, which is building a stablecoin protocol for last-mile delivery of international aid.

Today, we’re excited to announce a collaboration between Lattice and CoinList Seed.

We’re excited to announce our investment in Rhinestone, which is building blockchain infrastructure for modular smart account wallets.

It’s the million dollar question: how will crypto benefit real world users?

An analysis of the 2021 Seed Stage Projects

Karate Combat is a professional sports league that focused on full-force, striking-only karate tournaments. 130 fighters compete for championship belts across 10 weight classes. The league, founded in 2017, has targeted the next generation of sports fans by tailoring content to entertain on mobile devices, free-to-watch cross-platform distribution and immersive 3D VFX environments.

We are excited to announce our investment in Ensemble, which is building a platform where artists can sell the artifacts from their creative process and tell the story behind it. Artifacts are often referred to as ephemera — pieces from the creative process of a project. Artifacts are created for a specific purpose and aren't meant to last after their original use.

There is a new type of airdrop emerging; the DAODrop. Airdrops are the single most important marketing tool at the disposal of crypto teams today and they are no longer just for retail. More infrastructure and middleware projects are getting on the airdrop train by offering airdrops as a way to reward and incentivize continued development by other protocol & application developers leveraging their infrastructure.

We’re excited to announce our investment in Tholos, which is building the next generation of crypto-native financial infrastructure. Today most crypto-native organizations run their businesses on top of SAFE multi-sig wallets. Multi-sigs have become a mainstay of crypto - project treasuries, DAO’s, groups of friends all use multi-sigs to jointly store assets.

Decentralized governance has been a long-discussed topic – it aims at helping to prevent corruption, empowering a community to have a voice, and ensuring that a crypto network is run fairly and transparently.

With the advent of general purpose blockchains, notably Ethereum in 2014, a diversity of decentralized applications emerged from the primordial on-chain soup. While we experienced the rapid development of new sectors starting with DeFi summer in 2020, we haven’t seen a new sector contender since late 2021 push for DAO Tooling. Today I am going to talk about the emergence of what I believe will be a massive new sector of the burgeoning crypto economy, what we are calling Token Incentivized Physical Infrastructure Networks (TI-PIN).

DeFi has been in the doldrums for the better part of the last year. As liquidity mining has faded from focus, investors and retail have shifted their attention elsewhere. DeFi winter started months before the broader market sell off and most DeFi tokens are down 90%+ from all time highs.

Over the last few months Lattice has been building a position in $NOTE, the governance token of Notional. Notional has been at the forefront of the fixed-rate lending market, pushing the vertical forward and driving the next wave of DeFi adoption. We’re excited to share our thesis more broadly.

Lattice Capital is excited to announce our investment into DIMO, a web-3 enabled crypto network that will power the world’s machine-based data economy. We believe that DIMO has the potential to change how data is collected, used, and most importantly monetized in the increasingly internet connected world. The DIMO network is focusing its initial go to market plan on the massive $10T mobility market with a particular emphasis on electric vehicles which is expected to balloon over the next 10 years as OEMs rush to electrify their fleets.

Let’s stop talking about Web3. Breakout apps need to speak for themselves.

Lattice is excited to announce our investment into Lit Protocol, we believe Lit will be a key piece of the rapidly expanding infrastructure stack within Web3. The Lit Network provides web3 developers with a decentralized access control protocol for gating digital and real world experiences based on on-chain data including ownership of both fungible and non-fungible tokens.

Layer3 is helping DAO’s and Web3 projects better engage their communities and turn them into cheerleaders. These communities are filled with incredibly passionate early adopters who want to make these projects successful and Layer3 is helping to leverage that energy for marketing purposes. For example, an Index Coop community member claimed a bounty to skydive wearing Index Coop merch (the video was viewed more than 3000 times!)

We're excited to announce that we've co-led a $2M round into xToken, alongside their existing investors. xToken is an on-chain asset management platform that offers passive and composable DEFi strategies. Their initial product focused on liquid staking derivatives of popular ERC20 tokens, but they've since expanded into Uniswap V3 LP strategies (and so much more!)

Growth in Web3 is a challenge; Web3 has no app stores, no targeted Facebook ads, no email marketing, no re-marketing, no affiliate marketing...yeah, you get it. The tools relied upon by Silicon Valley growth marketers over the past decade have largely evaporated in our industry, and we've been left with only a couple arrows in the quiver. Beyond meme contests and an active Twitter account, Web3 teams have relied mainly on token incentives for early adopters. Using tokens as an incentive, while successful in some instances, is more recently being called into question as it has trained parasitic behavior as users rush into projects with liquidity to earn tokens only to dump them and when the incentives dry up, say goodbye to those users.

Interest in Web3 has exploded over the past twelve months. NBA superstars are paying six-figures for NFT's and proudly displaying them. OpenSea is doing more volume than Etsy. The fastest growing game in the world runs on Ethereum. While this surge in interest has driven new users into the space, usage of crypto products still dwarfs that of their predecessors.