Packy McCormick invests at Not Boring Capital. I manage the Not Boring Club and write the semi-weekly Not Boring newsletter on business strategy and popular culture.
Merit Systems is an open source economic infrastructure that allows capital sources to route funds to the code base and directly incentivize builders. As corporate hierarchies direct resources with nested layers of middle management, Merit distributes capital to builders in a distributed ecosystem programatically. Over time clear merit-based incentives will attract the best builders to projects where they can maximize their agency and impact.
Agora is the home of governance participants. The Agora team has previously deployed a similar governance app for other top DAOs in the space such as Nouns DAO and ENS.
jokerace is a governance platform that allows projects to launch contests and hackathons, issue grants, and offer incentives to community members on-chain. Jokerace will be using on-chain reputations to assess who should have more say in the governance process.
Den provides a self-custodial, multi-signature wallet for on-chain organizations. Teams, including both DAOs and traditional organizations, use Den for managing protocols, interacting with DeFi, conducting on-chain operations, and more. Den is built on top of the Safe Contracts (formerly Gnosis Safe).
StoryDAO is a radical experiment in community world-building. Its mission is to unlock the potential of every creator and fan around the world by building an open Hollywood production platform. StoryDAO aims to create a place where communities can come together to create, contribute to, and ultimately become co-owners of the next generation of story franchises.
Vana is an AI identity generation application that allows users to create a digital character and support its use in different applications, while the digital character is private and can only be controlled by the user who created it and their authorized accounts.
nxyz is a blockchain data infrastructure with the mission of empowering a new generation of builders and creators to build a better internet for all. Its platform provides swift access to data and infrastructure, allowing developers to quickly integrate with real-time data APIs and rapidly deploy a full range of applications.
Tally Labs builds characters, worlds, and tools with the help of their community. Through their gated web-app, The Writer's Room, they collaborate with thousands of users to create unique characters and immersive worlds. These media properties are featured in creative works, with credit flowing back to the community members who participate. Some community members even license their own characters to appear in projects and receive licensing fees in exchange.
Their most well-known character, Jenkins the Valet (50k Twitter followers), is the lead character in a book called Bored & Dangerous, written by 10x NYT bestseller Neil Strauss.
Mad Realities is a new media company aiming to become a decentralized entertainment platform that lets viewers own and co-create TV shows based on the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) they hold. In March 2022, Mad Realities launched its first proof-of-concept dating show, "Proof of Love," on YouTube, where votes on contestants for the show were chosen by a community of NFT holders.
Liquifi is building the "Carta for Crypto" to help companies automate their token vesting, tax compliance, reporting, and manage their token cap table. With Liquifi, teams can launch their tokens faster with fewer resources and save time on compliance and token distributions. Liquifi's contracts are fully secure, audited by multiple firms, and protected from loss.
DIMO is a decentralized software and hardware Internet of Things (IoT) platform that enables users to create authenticated streams of their vehicle data to share privately with applications. This can enable users to negotiate for better services, such as auto financing and insurance.
RareCircles is a membership and loyalty platform that supports creating an access pass on-chain for communities. The mission of RareCircles is to empower a new generation of entrepreneurs and brands to build deeper relationships with their communities through NFTs and blockchain technology. Its intuitive platform enables anyone to make, sell, and manage powerful NFT memberships under one operating system.
Oncyber is a metaverse platform that makes it easy for anyone to create their own 3D, immersive experience that can be accessed from a web browser. 3D artists can sell spaces to others or upload their own spaces for their own use.
Loopscale Protocol is a peer-to-peer system and on-chain matching engine for borrowing and lending tokens on Solana, combining the market structures and risk management of traditional finance with the viability and scalability of public blockchains. The protocol enables sophisticated loan structuring and supports complex collateral, including LP tokens, natively-staked SOL, and tokenized treasuries.
Sound is how music should be: driven by the relationship between listeners and artists. It creates a platform for a more collaborative music movement, built on web3 technology and values. On Sound, users support the artists they love directly and stake their claim on being there before anyone else.
Massive is a new payment layer for the internet. The company provides an SDK that lets app users choose to access premium features in exchange for their idle computing resources rather than personal attention and data. These resources are combined to form a supercomputer that compensates developers by decentralizing blockchain infrastructure, mining cryptocurrency, and performing general distributed tasks.
Meow is the bridge that enables institutional and corporate investors to participate in emerging cryptocurrency investment opportunities. It provides modern, compliant investing for corporate treasuries, which may offer protection from the risks of inflation and provide crypto-sourced yields.
XMTP is a fundamental new building block for the next iteration of the web—a permissionless, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, creators, protocols, applications, and users. XMTP will enable communication between existing crypto wallets through its own independent protocol and decentralized network.
Syndicate is a decentralized investment protocol and social network that will enable communities to raise, coordinate, and invest capital. It will level the playing field, empower communities of builders, creatives, influencers, and friends to invest in innovative ideas and technologies that can change the world, and introduce revolutionary new investment models to society.
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