The 2023 Chain Catalyst Year in Review

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Hi folks 👋,

This is the last issue of Chain Catalyst in 2023.

I can’t believe it has been a year since we started this publication. What started as a project has turned into 120,000 words over 200 issues, generating 857,000+ impressions and counting. Not too shabby.

Today, I want to take the opportunity to recap what we’ve achieved.

Consistency is key, and I am proud and grateful to have reached this milestone. This publication also wouldn’t be possible without my partner, Karon, and the other team members who help us with day-to-day operations.

The 5 Most-Viewed Articles by Page Views

1. Etherscan: The Master of Block Explorers

2. Creating the Google of Web3

3. SBF’s $250M Christmas Present

4. Chain Venturer: Sachi Kamiya of Polygon Ventures

5. Top Crypto VC’s Liquid Holdings

The 5 Most-Viewed Articles by Email Opens

1. Grayscale $17 Billion Victory

2. More DCG Problems

3. Uncle Sam Wants Your Crypto

4. Helio Protocol: Building a Next-Generation Stablecoin

5. VC is hard: Paradigm GC & CFO Depart

Chain Venturer Interviews

Starting in mid-2023, I began interviewing crypto investors to gain better insights into their background and investment theses. In total, I’ve chatted with:

• Sachi Kamiya of Polygon Ventures

• 0xSmac of Compound VC

• Richard Galvin of Digital Asset Capital Management

• Phil Bonello of Plaintext Capital

• Michael Tiew of Longhash

• Hassan Bassiri of Nima Capital

• Arthur Cheong of DeFiance Capital

• Katie Talati of Arca

• Ash Liew of Signum Capital

• August Ilag of CMT Digital

• Jacob Ko of Superscrypt

• Qin En Looi of Saison Capital

• Melody He of The Spartan Group

• Rain&coffee of Maven 11 Capital

• Edward Tan of Hashed

• Jakub Rusiecki of Social Graph Ventures

• Joeri & Simon of NxGen

• Mona Tiesler of Tokentus Investment AG

• Ash Arora of LocalGlobe

• William Kurniawan of Caballeros Capital

• Tze Donn Ng of Tioga Capital

I’m extremely grateful to all of you subscribers who have made it possible for us to continue developing this publication into 2024.

Personally, it has been a rewarding year of writing and connecting with various crypto builders and investors. 2023 is also the year when I began connecting with more Asia-based crypto professionals, having spent the majority of my professional working career in the US crypto scene prior.

We have many other things planned out next year. Some will work, some won’t, but I’m confident that we’ll continue to bring the most value to our readers with new products and content initiatives.

Until next time,

-Marco

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