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Viktor Bunin
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Jan 20, 2022

Investing in POAP

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment in POAP to increase the depth of peoples engagement with our social surroundings under conditions of scale. Describing POAP has levels; there’s the lowest level (NFTs for doing stuff), the highest level (accelerating human development), and everything in between. …

Ethereum

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Investing in POAP
Investing in POAP
Ethereum

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Jan 12, 2022

Investing in Entropy

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment in Entropy’s pre-seed round to build the first ever truly trustless Decentralized Asset Custodian protocol. …

Ethereum

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Investing in Entropy
Investing in Entropy
Ethereum

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Oct 28, 2021

Investing in KYVE

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment in KYVE’s second funding round, alongside the incredible Ashley Tyson of Hypersphere Ventures and Garrett MacDonald of Permanent Ventures, and strategic ecosystem partners including protocol founders and foundations. When Pierre Chuzeville interviewed me on my angel investing as part of…

Blockchain

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Investing in KYVE
Investing in KYVE
Blockchain

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Oct 21, 2021

Advising Obol

Today I am proud to announce that I am joining Obol Network as an advisor, with a focus on incentive design, protocol development, and community. I’ve known Collin Myers for over three years and I am incredibly excited to support him and the team on this breakthrough technology. Obol Network…

Ethereum

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Advising Obol
Advising Obol
Ethereum

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Oct 15, 2021

Investing in Aurora

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment in Aurora’s first funding round alongside Pantera Capital, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and over 100 other investors from the broader crypto ecosystem. The Ethereum ecosystem is at an inflection point as dapps, wallets, users, exchanges, and everyone else, works to…

Cryptocurrency

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Investing in Aurora
Investing in Aurora
Cryptocurrency

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Oct 4, 2021

Code is Law and Cultural Code

Last week a ‘free money’ bug on Compound caused some users to be able to claim far more COMP than they were supposed to, creating an estimated potential max loss of $147m / 490k COMP to the protocol. …

Ethereum

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Code is Law and Cultural Code
Code is Law and Cultural Code
Ethereum

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Jun 16, 2021

Investing in Goldfinch

Lisa Cuesta and I are proud to announce our investment in Goldfinch’s seed round alongside a16z and existing investors including Variant, Slow Ventures, and Coinbase Ventures. While the benefits of using a decentralized lending network are available today, friction in the user experience and a steep learning curve limit usage…

Defi

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Investing in Goldfinch
Investing in Goldfinch
Defi

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Oct 1, 2019

Proof of Stake’s security model is being dramatically misunderstood

Proof of Stake’s security model is being dramatically misunderstood. The biggest obstacle to understanding its security model is applying existing security frameworks to it. More specifically, the only security model we’ve come close to understanding is Proof of Work (PoW) so we take its security characteristics and transfer them over…

Blockchain

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Proof of Stake’s security model is being dramatically misunderstood
Proof of Stake’s security model is being dramatically misunderstood
Blockchain

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Published in Bison Trails

·Jun 19, 2019

Bison Trails is supporting Algorand’s mainnet launch

After working with the Algorand team for close to a year, we are proud to announce that Bison Trails will be supporting the Algorand mainnet launch! We will democratize access to the Algorand network by making it easy for anyone to run enterprise-grade Algorand nodes using the Bison Trails platform. …

Blockchain

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Bison Trails is supporting Algorand’s mainnet launch
Bison Trails is supporting Algorand’s mainnet launch
Blockchain

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Published in Bison Trails

·Jun 5, 2019

The Challenges of Running Blockchain Infrastructure

Running a node is almost like magic — anyone can be part of a special cohort securing the chain, participating in consensus, and having an unstoppable entryway to a global economy. …

Blockchain

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The Challenges of Running Blockchain Infrastructure
The Challenges of Running Blockchain Infrastructure
Blockchain

9 min read

Viktor Bunin

Viktor Bunin

482 Followers

Protocol Specialist at Bison Trails. ex-ETHDenver, ConsenSys, EY.

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