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The crypto wallet has won the Solana ecosystem. Itâs now coming for Ethereum â and MetaMaskâs throne.
Brought to you by PhantomThe first time I used Phantomâs crypto wallet, I was blown away. Founders Brandon Millman, Francesco Agosti, and Chris Kalani have built a beautiful, intuitive product with leading-edge safety features.
It makes interacting with web3 â whether youâre sending tokens, staking SOL, or buying an NFT â 100x less stressful and more enjoyable. Thereâs a reason the company has racked up millions of users in less than two years.
After becoming the standard in the Solana ecosystem, Phantom is taking its next big step, expanding to Ethereum and Polygon. This is big news with the potential to positively impact mainstream crypto adoption.
To get started with Phantomâs one wallet for everything, sign up here.
To find the original piece, published Dec 18, 2022, follow this link.
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The worldâs largest semiconductor foundry is expanding beyond Taiwan, investing $40 billion in a U.S. factory. Itâs a move with immense political and commercial ramifications.
Brought to you by SardineIf youâre a fintech shooting for âdefault alive,â fraud prevention should be at the top of your priority list.
Fraud is a huge, growing threat. Last year, losses to scams increased by as much as 70%. Companies that donât have adequate fraud prevention may find themselves in trouble quickly. Especially now that most fintech scams come from customers that have been âverified.â
One way to combat fraud is to assemble an expensive, dedicated team of experts whose entire job it is to stay one step ahead of ever-evolving fraud.
Another option? Use Sardine.
Itâs like having the best fraud team in the world, available as an API. Sardine uses machine-learning, extensive transaction data, and intelligent rules to stop fraud before it happens. Companies like Brex, MetaMask, AtoB, and Blockchain.com trust Sardine to reduce fraud by as much as 700%. Better yet, thanks to its superior risk modeling, Sardine also improves conversion rates, reducing the number of good customers you turn away. Thanks to Sardine, Blockchain.comâs conversion rate improved by 10% (and itâs still going up).
Take control of your survival and scale without the scams by implementing Sardine today.
To find the original piece, published Dec 18, 2022, follow this link.
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A look back at the highs, lows, and lessons of running a media company.
Brought to you by Vauban from CartaTo succeed as an angel or VC, you need the right platform
Thankfully, Vauban from Carta has you covered â whether youâre writing your first check or running a $1 billion fund. Though thereâs a lot of power under the hood, here are three key features investors should know about:
Scale your VC. Start by launching a Delaware SPV from your couch and graduate to running a billion dollar VC fund in Luxembourg all from the same platform. Your own team of structuring experts. Have the support of 200+ fund admin specialists at your fingertips, ready to support you through exit and beyond. Papercut-free operations. Top investors use Vauban to launch global vehicles in 5 minutes. We take care of your back office, you focus on being a value-add investor and building relationships.Start your VC today.
To find the original piece, published Dec 18, 2022, follow this link.
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ChatGPT is the latest step towards a world of infinite, customizable content, all generated by artificial intelligence. Its advent will impact how we create, consume, and commercialize media.
Brought to you by MasterworksThe Ultra-Wealthy Are Falling in Love with This Secure Investing App (Hereâs Why)
Masterworks.com, the $1B fintech unicorn, lets you invest in the booming art market. Millionaires love this app, but you donât need to be one to sign up.
In fact, membership is 100% free. Even better, all offerings are SEC qualified, insured, and vetted by their experts.
In case you didnât know, contemporary art outpaced the S&P 500 by 131% from 1995-2021 with near 0 correlation to stocks according to Citi.
So, whatâs their track record like?
Theyâve recently returned a net +21%, +27% and +32% to members. Thatâs pretty impressive if you ask me.
Investing in art isnât a new concept. The ultra-wealthy have invested in art for centuries. And while the economy may be shaky, theyâre still purchasing art at a record pace.
Want to see whatâs available? My subscribers get early access right here*
To find the original piece, published Nov 13, 2022, follow this link.
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The $600M fintech grew rapidly by digitizing an existing behavior. CEO Ravish Naresh shares his lessons and why profitability is his new focus.
Brought to you by Vauban from CartaTo succeed as an angel or VC, you need the right platform
Thankfully, Vauban from Carta has you covered â whether youâre writing your first check or running a $1 billion fund. Though thereâs a lot of power under the hood, here are two key features investors should know about:
Easy SPVs. There are different ways VCs get the capital for their investments. One of the easiest and most efficient is with an SPV platform like Vauban from Carta. Spin up an SPV from your couch, share with your network and start collecting small ticket checks to make your investment in the future. VC dashboard. Keeping track of your investments can become a full-time job in and of itself. Vauban offers an elegant dashboard that helps take care of all the boring bits including legal, compliance, and tax. Better yet, youâll get the support of more than +200 VC specialists ready to help you win.âStart your VC today.
To find the original piece, published Nov 13, 2022, follow this link.
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Reflections on crypto and trying to make sense of a nonsensical week.
Brought to you by Masterworks
Microsoft Co-Founderâs $1.5B+ Sale Highlights Real Asset Resilience
Last week, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allenâs historic art collection shattered the record for largest ever sale in auction history.
The fact that the blue-chip art market is still setting records amid major drawdowns in financial markets, and macroeconomic turmoil, highlights why it can be such a strong alternative diversifier. In fact, the high-end art market also remained resilient through downturns like the dot-com bubble and Great Financial Crisis.
But this time around, itâs not just the ultra-wealthy benefitting, thanks to Masterworks.
This unicorn investment platform compiles the results of thousands of auctions like this, generating millions of data points, and builds custom indices to find artist markets with the most momentum. Then it acquires works from those artists, securitizes them, and allows everyday people to invest in shares.
So far, seven of Masterworksâ eight exits have realized a net return of +17.8%.
To invest in works by top-performing artists like Picasso and Bansky, skip the Masterworks waitlist with my referral link.
See important Regulation A disclosures
To find the original piece, published Nov 13, 2022, follow this link.
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Reid Hoffman, Saam Motamedi, Sarah Guo, Lan Xuezhao, Matt Turck, Leigh Marie Braswell, Nathan Benaich, Rob Toews, Cat Wu, and Michael Dempsey highlight the AI trends to keep an eye on.
Brought to you by SardineScams only work if people believe theyâre real.
Scams hide in plain sight. The email outlining an investment opportunity or the phone call promising paid work may seem like good fortune. But more likely than not, theyâre attempts to defraud you.
The sophistication of these scams means that anyone is at risk. Last year, fraud losses increased 70%, suggesting that fraud is outstripping our technological defenses. Itâs a problem that is constantly evolving. While people like me and you are at risk, so are companies. Businesses lose billions every year in scams, sometimes without realizing it since theyâre often defrauded by âverifiedâ customers.
Sardine protects businesses from such threats. Leveraging sophisticated machine learning, Sardine stops the scammers from winning. You can think of them as the worldâs best fraud team that you hire as an API. Compliance, onboarding, transaction monitoring, and fraud detection are all handled through Sardineâs simple API and SDK.
The impact is major. Sardine helps businesses like FTX, Brex, Metamask, and Blockchain improve their conversion rates, raise order values, and lower fraud losses.
Scale without the scams. Implement Sardine today.
To find the original piece, published Oct 30, 2022, follow this link.
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The Midas List investor talks about religion, cyber warfare, and David Swensen.
Brought to you by SardineFraud isnât a problem until it becomes your only problem.
Getting better at fraud prevention is mission-critical to scaling revenue. That means you need the right tools for customer onboarding and compliance to protect your business while also ensuring a top-notch customer experience.
But doing all these things is hard, and they typically require months of implementation across multiple vendors, which comes with headaches and increased costs.
Sardine was created to scale your business.
Combine risk, compliance, and payment protection to increase your customer satisfaction, trust, and loyalty â all from one API.
The leading fraud prevention and payments provider protects your customers from malicious scammers while improving your conversion rates. Companies like FTX, Brex, AtoB, MoonPay, Autograph and others use Sardine to stop fraud and increase revenue.
âImplement Sardine today and scale your revenue without the fear of fraud.
To find the original piece, published Oct 30, 2022, follow this link.
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The e-commerce and gaming conglomerate was worth more than $200 billion a year ago. It has since lost $177 billion of its peak market cap and is leaving key geographies â but it still has one of the highest ceilings in the business world.
Brought to you by SardineFraud isnât a problem until it becomes your only problem.
Scaling your business for growth means strengthening fraud prevention, having the right tools in place for customer onboarding and compliance, and creating better customer experiences.
But doing all these things is hard and they typically require months of implementation across multiple vendors which comes with headaches & increased costs.
Sardine was created to scale your business.
Combine risk, compliance, and payment protection to increase your customer satisfaction, trust, and loyalty â all from one API.
The leading fraud prevention and payments provider protects your customers from malicious scammers while improving your conversion rates. Companies like FTX, Brex, AtoB, MoonPay, Autograph and others use Sardine to stop fraud and increase revenue.
âImplement Sardine today and scale your revenue without the fear of fraud.
To find the original piece, published Oct 23, 2022, follow this link.
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The rapidly scaling startup is more than just a fearsome fraud prevention platform for fintech and crypto. Itâs laying the foundation to become a payments giant.
Brought to you by SardineIf youâre a fintech or crypto company, you should be using Sardine. It is that simple.
The fraud prevention and payments provider protects your customers from malicious scammers while improving your conversion rates. Companies like FTX, Brex, AtoB, MoonPay, Autograph, and others use Sardine to stop fraud and increase revenue.
âTo get started, book a demo here. By doing so, you stand to cut fraud by 300% and unlock $500,000 in operational savings.
To find the original piece, published October 19, 2022, follow this link.
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The âinternet of blockchainsâ believes tomorrowâs builders will prioritize specialization and sovereignty. It represents a distinct view of cryptoâs future and is gaining momentum.
Brought to you by Masterworks
After injecting trillions of dollars into the financial systemâŠWhat could go wrong? Try the worst inflation in 40 years, the stock market in a tailspin, and a dark crypto winter.
Yet, there are still some asset classes that the Fed canât print more of.
Like fine art â a $1.7 trillion-dollar asset class that's outpaced the S&P 500 by more than 2x in the last 25 years. A recent Goldman Sachs report also noted that portfolios with real assets like art have outperformed since WWII.
With Masterworks, over 500,000 members are getting access to investments in multi-million dollar art, for just a fraction of the price of the entire work.
While other assets are struggling with double digit losses, Masterworks has strategically exited six positions for a 29% average net return. The Generalist readers can skip their waitlist to join with this exclusive referral link.
See important Regulation A disclosures.
To find the original piece, published Oct 16, 2022, follow this link.
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The venture firm has succeeded by focusing on geographies in which most investors dare not tread. It is positioned to become a dominant force in emerging markets.
To find the original piece, published September 28, 2022, follow this link.
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Five years after Masayoshi Sonâs $100 billion fund shook the financial world, Softbankâs venture firm is crumbling. Can it be saved?
Brought to you by Fintech Nexus
London Calling! Join Fintech Nexus for its Merge conference October 17-18 at Tobacco Dock in London, and witness the impact web3 is having on financial institutions and fintechs. Hear from industry leaders and innovators as they reveal how theyâre thinking about â and implementing â web3 solutions to gain a competitive edge.
In partnership with 11:FS, Merge brings together a stellar lineup including, Lawrence Wintermeyer (GBBC Digital Finance), Lex Sokolin (ConsenSys), Jess Houlgrave (checkout.com), Claire Calmejane (Société Générale), Keith Grose (Plaid), Curtis Ting (Kraken), Pavel Matveev (Wirex), Jehangir Byramji (Lloyds Banking Group), Haydn Jones (PwC), a member of Parliament, and more.
To learn more and register, visit Fintech Nexus here.
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To find the original piece, published Oct 2, 2022, follow this link.
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With over $5.6 billion in total value locked, Aave is one of DeFiâs most dominant players. Its ambitions extend far beyond lending, with stablecoins and social media in its sights.
Brought to you by Masterworks
The near-zero interest rates and sub-two percent inflation that fueled the record bull market of the last ten years are gone. In their place, volatility and fear rule. How can you prepare?
Ultra-high-net-worth investors are increasing their exposure to an asset class that outpaced the S&P 500 by 164% over the last 25 years: blue-chip art. Because of this demand, Deloitte expects the asset class to grow nearly 60% in 3 years.
But investing in multi-million dollar art by names like Picasso and Banksy isnât just an opportunity for the elite anymore.
Thanks to Masterworks, the award-winning art investment platform, 500,000 other members and I have already discovered the potential of this wealth-generating asset. In fact, since inception theyâve delivered a 29% average Net Realized Return to investors across six exits.
As a Generalist subscriber, youâre invited to skip the waitlist to join using this exclusive referral link.
See important Reg A and performance disclosures.
To find the original piece, published Sep 25, 2022, follow this link.
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FTXâs CEO shares his thoughts on management, staying focused, keeping up with the competition, scaling himself, hiring mistakes, and building a generational business.
Brought to you by FTX US
Hereâs a puzzler for you: what do Tom Brady, GameStop, and chess god Magnus Carlsen have in common? The answer is, surprisingly, FTX US. The cryptocurrency exchange boasts Brady as an investor (and extremely watchable ambassador), GameStop as a new partner, and Magnus Carlsen as a player in its inaugural âCrypto Cupâ tournament. At a time when most companies are being forced to pull back and dream a little smaller, FTX is still firing at full throttle.
The reason FTX is able to do that is thanks to its exceptionally strong investing platform. FTX US is not only an easy, intuitive place to buy and sell crypto, NFTs, and stocks, it is also the most economical. No other player can match FTX USâs combination of coverage and low fees.
To get started with cryptoâs most interesting exchange, download the FTX US app here. As a reader of this newsletter, you can use the code GENERALIST, and after you trade $100, youâll get a special $15 bonus.
A final note: while FTX US is this editionâs sponsor, the interview below is not sponsored. I just really wanted to ask Sam these questions.
To find the original piece, published Sep 18, 2022, follow this link.
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The firm has spent billions attempting to transform itself into a tech company, exploring lending, savings, investing, and beyond. The initiative shows the opportunities and challenges of innovating from within.
Brought to you by FTX USWhen I first wrote about FTX in The Generalist, I said the company was building an âeverything exchange.â One comprehensive platform to invest in different assets spanning crypto and traditional finance.
With FTX USâs launch of stock trading earlier this summer, thatâs truer than ever. From the companyâs secure and intuitive app, you can invest in more than 900 different stocks and access your favorite cryptocurrencies. If youâre already holding stablecoins, you can fund your account with them seamlessly, saving you the trouble of selling back into dollars. FTX US is charging no fees on stock trading until September 30th and does not get paid for order flow.
To capitalize on FTX USâs impressive feature set, download the app today. Use the code GENERALIST, and after you trade $100, youâll get a special $15 bonus!
To find the original piece, published Sep 11, 2022, follow this link.
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The $5 billion football club is amidst a high-risk transformation. Its strategy reveals the tricky economics of running a sports franchise and the potential teams see in web3.
Brought to you by Masterworks
Solve your âzero return crisisâ with this fintech platform realizing 27.9%
Vanguard, a $7.2 trillion money manager, calculated that stocks will return as little as 3.4% over the next ten years. With 8.5% inflation, that means negative real growth on your money. Yes, less than zero. But there's hope.
Personally, Iâm continuing to diversify into alternatives like contemporary art. Itâs outperformed the S&P by 164% over the last 25 years, and demand is so high that Deloitte expects the art market to grow nearly 60% within three years.
The smartest way for everyday investors to get in on the action is Masterworks. Despite covid, historic inflation, and the beginning of a recession, their last six exits achieved an impressive 27.9% average net return.
Join me and 500,000+ others investing in multi-million dollar paintings. As a Generalist subscriber, youâre entitled to skip the waitlist using our referral link.
See important Regulation A disclosures.
To find the original piece, published Aug 28, 2022, follow this link.
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Fifteen investors share crypto's highest-potential projects featuring Cosmos, Toucan, Farcaster, Maple Finance, Axelar, and many more.
Brought to you by Eco
Eco may be one of the most innovative startups in the world. Itâs not just improving the customer experience, itâs revolutionizing the financial system from the ground up. Built on a sophisticated crypto-native backend, Eco offers a simple way to spend, save, and earn money.
The result is a product that operates like a checking account but
with 50x better rates than the national average â up to 5%! Thatâs combined with unlimited 5% cash back at in-app merchant partners like Amazon and Uber and no minimums or fees, ever. Even better, as you use the product, you accumulate Eco Points, which the company intends to make the rewards currency of the future.
If you're looking for better interest, better cashback, and the upside of a new currency, join Eco today. Attend a welcome session and if you make a deposit, Eco will match 10% of it (up to $200), as long as you leave it in your account for 30 days. To get started, just click here.
To find the original piece, published Aug 14, 2022, follow this link.
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In this new series, we ask the most interesting, unobvious questions we can think of to one of techâs most fascinating people. Before founding crypto company LayerZero, Pellegrino played professional poker, sold a machine-learning tool to a Major League Baseball team, and published AI research.
Brought to you by FTX US
Last week, FTXâs CEO Sam Bankman-Fried summarized the company better than I ever could. He said...
Right now on FTX you can:
a) invest in stocks
b) invest in crypto
c) make credit card deposits
d) get an FTX card, spend directly from FTX
e) make direct deposits
f) make peer to peer payments
what else do people want?
A year from now, thereâs every reason to believe that Sam and his team will have added features âgâ â âzâ to their increasingly comprehensive platform. Already from FTX US, you can invest in crypto, stocks, and NFTs. It has some of the lowest fees in the industry and is a safe and intuitive place to up your investing game.
âTo get started, download the FTX US app. Use the code GENERALIST, and after you trade $100, youâll get a special $15 bonus.
To find the original piece, published Aug 7, 2022, follow this link.
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Ten habits of some of venture capitalâs most successful firms.
This piece is brought to you by FTX US.
Itâs been a tough year for the markets â crypto is no exception. Amidst the mayhem, FTX and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried have been quietly executing and stabilizing. For example, FTX provided a $250 million credit facility to BlockFi to help steady the market.
It is one of the more remarkable examples of a new business taking on an industry leadership role.
FTX is able to take on this mantle because of the incredible product and business it has built. FTX US offers one of the most complete and inexpensive investing platforms in the world. From a single application, you can invest in your favorite cryptocurrencies, stocks, and NFTs.
I am proud to have them as a partner. Get started today by downloading the FTX US app. Use the code GENERALIST, and after you trade $100, youâll get a special $15 bonus.
To find the original piece, published July 31, 2022, follow this link.
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