Naval Ravikant

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Blockchain Payments Platform Chia on an ‘Accelerated Timeline' to IPO
Amid the plans for its "near-term" IPO, the company plans to roughly triple the size of its workforce by year’s end.
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Coinbase, Naval, Framework Ventures Back $19M Raise for a Capital-Efficient Stablecoin
The soon-to-launch Fei Protocol would mint stablecoins by simply selling them directly to users.
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'Passwordless Login' Startup Magic Raises $4M From Naval Ravikant, Placeholder
Ethereum startup Magic just raised $4 million from investors like Naval Ravikant, SV Angel, Placeholder and Volt Capital to make passwords less of a pain.
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InstaDApp DeFi Site Raises $2.4 Million From Prominent Crypto Investors
The fourth-largest dapp in DeFi, InstaDApp, is now backed by Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Coinbase Ventures and others.
Instadapp co-founders Sowmay Jain and Samyak Jain in a photo from 2019.

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Will Facebook's Libra Be an On-Ramp or Dead End for Crypto?
Cryptocurrency insiders share their thoughts on whether Facebook's ambitious Libra project will help, or hurt, the broader industry.
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Crypto Reckoning? Industry Vets Strike Humble Tone in San Francisco
Many at San Francisco Blockchain Week are warily reflecting on the lessons of the 2017 token boom, the pride that came before the bear-market fall.
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Better Bitcoin Relay? Crypto VCs Back BloXroute Funding
BloXroute's founder worries relay networks that speeds data between crypto miners are not censorship resistant and too slow to foster scaling now.
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Don't Use a Blockchain Unless You Really Need One
Blockchains are inefficient, and worth the cost only when censorship-resistance is required. For money, it clearly is; for identity, it just might be.
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Most Influential in Blockchain 2017 #4: Naval Ravikant
If crypto assets really are the "Craziest Bubble Ever," then Naval Ravikant is the movement's elder statesman. The founder of AngelList, Ravikant didn't talk much about startu...
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