Ben Lakoff (@lakoff) • Hey

Entrepreneur | Investor | CFA

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June Venture Deals 🫡 - Recap of largest web3 funding rounds - Airtable with ALL funding data - Hackathons & Demo Days - upcoming & finalists Enjoy: https://benlakoff.substack.com/p/deal-flow-digest-june-2023
If you're in LA 🌴 for a16z CSS Demo Day. Hit me up! See you there 🫡
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day. Tonight, come eat some FREE PIZZA 🍕 at Bright Moments in Venice. 18:00 Details & RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/crypto-mondays-l-a/events/zcpldtyfchbdc/ #HappyBitcoinPizzaDay #GlobalPizzaParty
April Venture Deals 🫡🔥🔥 All the web3 venture deals in a monthly spreadsheet / newsletter. - Recap of web3 funding rounds - Airtable with ALL data - Hackathons & Demo Days - upcoming & finalists Enjoy: https://tinyurl.com/zm5vswck
Hiring: Investment Analyst Intern at Bankless Ventures. 4 months long, Paid, Remote Details Here: https://bankless.pallet.com/jobs/94e296a8-d379-463e-b3bb-d97f63c846a4
Do it for the culture
Cryptomondays tonight in LA, see you there! 🫡
Each month, we scrape all the web3 venture deals and put them into a spreadsheet / newsletter. A monthly (free) newsletter w/: - Recap of web3 funding rounds - Hackathons / Demo Days - Airtable with ALL data Enjoy - https://tinyurl.com/4tcbx9n2
CryptoMondays this week in LA.... Web3 Social. Come join! 18:00, Clutch in Venice.
People who post on Lens makes Lens
おはよう @ethglobal.lens Tokyo! 🇯🇵 The Lens team is on the ground and we're so excited to bring the social layer of web3 to Japan. We have $20k in prizes for the hackathon! 🥇 1st $5k 🥈 2nd $3k 🥉 3rd $2k 🎖️ 10 best Lens Integrations for nullk each Lens is web3 native meaning it’s simple to build native payment features directly into your app. Mirrors, collects, follows and comments allow creators to monetize their content directly to the user, without intermediaries, and in a permissionless way. Premium content, token-gated rewards, tipping, crowdfunding, subscription services, referral, and affiliate programs are just a handful of the countless types of integrations you can build with Lens. Looking for some inspiration? - We're still in the early innings of AI and ML and want to see more devs utilizing the latest innovations from OpenAI, Replicate, HuggingFace, LangChain, and Dust just to name a few. Imagine the possibilities when web3 social intersects with AI/ML 🤯 - You could use AI/ML to analyze a user’s feed over the course of a few days and condense it into a single view so they can visit less often and still be up to date with what’s the latest and greatest. - Or create a social learning platform that uses AI to create personalized learning paths for users. It could assess users' knowledge levels, recommend relevant learning materials, and provide real-time feedback and guidance. - You could use Lens profiles specifically for your gaming identity. Imagine your in-game items and high scores attached to your Lens profile and you curate a Lens leaderboard for the community. - Bust a move! Build an app that lets users participate in virtual dance-off challenges. Users can record and upload their dances, challenge friends or random users, and compete for the elusive best dancer on Lens title 💃🕺 - Build a community app for @galverse.lens on Lens that utilizes the Splits for Collects feature (https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/create-post-typed-data#multirecipientfeecollectmodule) and you'll help with the development of the anime, character design, story, and more. - Imagine using the Collect module for more exclusive content such as event ticketing. - How about building a governance forum specifically for Lens users? gm DAOs 🤔 - Calling all pet lovers out there. Create a social platform where users can showcase their pets' talents, tricks, and general awesomeness. Users can upload videos of their pets and participate in virtual talent shows, with categories like "Best Trick," and "Funniest Moment" - Want to bridge that gap from web2 social to web3? Build a site that shows you the most followed people that have used a site (maybe the 🐦 app) or help users connect their web2 account and generate a ZKP for mapping. - Or a Lens creator dashboard for tracking post analytics (engagement, collects, revenue, etc) and helping you find your 1000 true fans. - Maybe you find yourself collecting every post from one of the 100k profiles already on Lens. Create a module to “subscribe” to someone and automatically collect everything the post within certain parameters. Here are some resources to support your hackathon efforts. Dev Docs https://docs.lens.xyz/docs Hackathon Guide https://lens.xyz/hackathons Lens Integrations https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/integrating-lens Lens SDK details https://github.com/lens-protocol/lens-sdk @nader.lens will be on stage April 14th at 7:30 PM JST in the Toranomon Hills Forum, 5th Floor | Workshop Room 1, for a developer-focused session on Building Full Stack Web3 Social Applications. Reach out to @nader.lens and @jessglover.lens for any questions on the ground in Tokyo. And make sure to stop by the Lens booth. Show us what you're building and you just might get some exclusive swag.
Gm NYC 🗽👋
Can still post substack on Lens…. Just saying.
See you NFT NYC 🧢 @gmoney.lens
Do people actually use LinkedIn? Wtf
See you at NFTLA 👋 Merch by @bankless.lenshq.lens @bankless 📸 Micah
See everyone this week at NFT LA! 👋🫡
February web3 funding rounds ⛷️⛷️ Each month, we scrape all the web3 venture deals and put them into a spreadsheet / newsletter. A monthly (free) newsletter w/: - Recap of web3 funding rounds - Airtable with ALL data - Hackathons & Demo Days https://benlakoff.substack.com/p/deal-flow-digest-february-2023
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Well done to all the people that panic sold their stables into ETH or BTC on Friday 🫡🚀
An AAVE fam 👻 Halloween 🎃 treat for you to collect exclusive artwork on Lens. Drop your ghostly Halloween costume pictures here 😱 Wishing you a fun-filled Halloween with magical surprises!
Official rAAVE Paris video drop! Collect and bottle that rAAVE feeling ✨ from Paris, with love 👻 🇫🇷 🪩 ...all proceeds will be donated to @shefi.lens
Aave News 69 Real time monitoring with Forta, Vote in @llamaxyz.lens <> Aave and aFEI AIPs & Snapshot for Chaos Labs engagement. Plus meme or remix for Bogota @letsraave.lens tickets. ➡️ Mirror this post and earn 100% of revenue from anyone who collects it (cost = 0.1 wMATIC, referral fee = 100%) - s/o @bradorbradley.lens for the idea 👻 https://aavegrants.mirror.xyz/2p3MxsBctsetBDlf7BYgmvfTxnwEiK4yVDefhGrtDq4
Congratulations to the entire Ethereum community on this monumental achievement. Remember this historic day forever by collecting this special ghost on Lens
Monday, 18-July come join us with https://twitter.com/Ray_Fuentes1111 from https://twitter.com/linqtoinc talking about Decentralized Private Investing. CryptoMondays standard format: Speaker & Q&A and then Networking with your Web3 Frens. Join us!
Every Monday in Venice, join 75+ of your web3 / crypto friends for an IRL meetup Details posted on Meetup https://www.meetup.com/Crypto-Mondays-L-A/ and Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/FW8gPEdXbCxldVsu3IRg8g
Published my first mirror article! Non Fungible Tokens AND Fungible Tokens within your web3 organization? How combining the two might open up new possibilities for improved governance designs. Check it out: https://mirror.xyz/benlakoff.eth/tkodyeBHbQyj1mB-euZlSCYBGZVVHgQg5aVtI0-K-vY
Enjoyed talking with Ryan Wyatt of Polygon Studios about blockchain gaming, where it could be going, pitfalls for game designers, valid arguments from non-NFT gamers, and things to watch out for as investors in this area. Check it out👇https://youtu.be/RYRtTUdfKCo