Is There a Middle Ground Between the Infrastructure and the Application Builders?

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Cypher pung: I think when we talk to developers, Cypher pungs, a lot of kind of investors as well, they are really excited about infrastructure and diversity of infrastructure. But so my perspective is that everyone that comes in thinking we're going to build with a web to web 2.5 mindset quickly realizes that we're not ready for that yet. We want to come into the space and they don't have to spend, you know, 10 months or a year on boarding and ramping up in terms of their knowledge. So I definitely think there's a middle ground that we need to reach. It's important to make it as easy as possible but at the

*PS* we apologize for the background noise around the 17min mark. We have already tried to minimize it to the best we can, but it is still audible. Even amidst all the blowups in the bear market, great builders continue to build and great investors continue to support them.

Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest and leading venture capital firms in the blockchain industry. Today, Blockchain Capital manages $2 billion in AUM, and has invested in some of the largest blockchain companies like OpenSea, 1inch and Aave.

Today on Blockcrunch, we have Kinjal Shah and Yuan Han Li, Partner and Associate at Blockchain Capital to share with us:

4 verticals they think will take off in 2023
Framework for investing in different verticals
Making Web 3 development more accessible for builders

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) – Introduction

(00:01:39) – Introduction to Blockchain Capital

(00:07:48) – Exploring consumer vertical

(00:12:47) – Improving wallet UX with Account Abstraction

(00:21:30) – Unlocking more use-cases in NFTs

(00:25:09) – Apps verticalizing into its own app-chain and app-rollup

(00:31:03) – Making Web 3 development more accessible

(00:35:23) – Layer 1 landscape & new developments

(00:41:26) – Value capture of dApps vs protocols

(00:44:52) – Projects to watch out for in 2023

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Blockchain Capital’s Website: https://blockchain.capital/

Kinjal Shah’s Twitter:https://twitter.com/_kinjalbshah

Yuan Han Li’s Twitter:https://twitter.com/yuan_han_li

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