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Investment thesis.

Strategy​

Aim to make an investment look bad with critical questions:

  • How many other people are going to buy this?
  • Why are they buying?
  • What time horizon?

Creating an Investment Thesis

Thesis​

Follow the talent: On permissionless platforms for innovation with incentives of participatory capitalism, there is nothing holding collectives of great people from delivering world changing products.

Forming an investment thesis to build a portfolio strategy around.

Conviction

Every asset will have a token and every major brand will have it's own blockchains

Crypto Assets​

Different assets and narratives you can invest in.

  • Decentralized AI
  • Restaking
  • Bitcoin L2s
  • Modularity
  • Data Availability
  • DePIN
  • Alt L1s
  • Intents
  • Interoperability
  • Ordinals
  • Parallel EVMs
  • RWAs

Bankless Glossary

Valuation Model​

How do you evaluate the value of a crypto asset?

MIQ - Where Will Value Accrue?

  • Intentions
  • Leadership
  • Web3 Principles
  • Narrative and Goodwill
  • Community and Network Effects
  • Developer Experience
  • Token Economics
  • Business Model
  • Business Development
  • KPI Metrics

Intentions​

What requirements on the path financial fulfillment?

  1. What is the value of money?
  2. How do you keep your money safe?
  3. How do you protect savings from being diluted?
  4. How do you transfer money securely and efficiently?
  5. How do you gain yield on savings?
  6. How do you leverage DeFi protocols to increase yield?
  7. How do you earn crypto in return for work?
  8. How much is enough money to live happily?

Treasury operations with DeFi. What do most people need to know? What will be automated by AI?

Leadership​

Leadership comunication vs actions taken.

  1. Clear intentions
  2. Validated pain points
  3. Consistent Communication
  4. Actions align with intentions

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