Jack Longarzo
@JackLongarzo
Investor @variantfund
The idea of DOJ prosecuting investors for funding and supporting software developers is morally reprehensible, politically disastrous, and comically devoid of legal rationale. There is no excuse for DOJ making a threat like this in open court. I hope the White House is watching.
Dragonfly invested into PepperSec, Inc., the developers of Tornado Cash, in August of 2020. We made this investment because we believe in the importance of open-source privacy-preserving technology. Prior to our investment, we obtained an outside legal opinion that confirmed that…
In crypto, moats are weak. Open supply lets new apps piggyback on incumbents, aggregate demand, and then spin up their own stack. This recursive loop plays out again and again. @JackLongarzo and I call it the fractal pattern — and this piece is a playbook for defending against…
Improvements in security are a key driver of mainstream adoption. This trend is the most underrated catalyst for onboarding more capital and users to crypto.
top 10 smart contract vulnerabilities in 2025 by OWASP 10
Decentralization is quickly moving from a spectrum to a barbell
The delta between tokens and equity will converge as we figure out neither structure is inherently better than the other and it depends on what you’re building and how you’re building it. As a result those who have not been thoughtful about governance, operational efficiency,…
Today’s focus on revenue is largely a response to the lack of clarity as to what most tokens do or what the intentions of the teams behind them are. The easiest way to provide clarity on both is to pour cash into buying back the token on a public blockchain.
Love it or hate it sparking controversy to get attention and then launch a product is a playbook that isn't going anywhere
Excited to announce our seed investment in @qdayclock Imagine waking up in a decade to find your Bitcoin wallet drained. Not because of a hack, but because the math that once protected it has silently broken down. No alerts. No patch. Just physics, catching up. The financial…
For those ready to seize the challenge: Felix Labs is hiring for three roles: 1. a senior frontend engineer 2. a senior full-stack/generalist engineer 3. a senior (or hungry junior) BD Want to come build out the future of Hyperliquid and @felixprotocol? Comment / DM me or…
Congrats to @_yakovsky and the @3janexyz team. 3jane is a novel DeFi protocol pioneering crypto native credit expansion and I'm excited to see this play out.
1/ 3Jane is excited to announce our $5.2M seed round led by @paradigm to enable the first scalable credit-based money market on Ethereum. This funding accelerates our long-term vision of driving cryptonative credit creation & economic growth.
Bitcoin showed us how to coordinate resources at massive scale. Now Decentralized AI can leverage that playbook to unlock an even bigger opportunity: Collective Intelligence. Here’s why I'm excited & the principles Decentralized AI can borrow from Bitcoin. Link below
Variant is hosting co-working with Phantom on May 21 at our office. If you're at @SolanaConf sign up here: lu.ma/xqouspi6
There are three pillars to crypto x AI: aggregation, verification, and self-custody. Loved diving in to this with @jeffwilser - excerpt below and full podcast for the brave here: open.spotify.com/episode/6bNXc4…
1/ 3Jane is excited to announce our $5.2M seed round led by @paradigm to enable the first scalable credit-based money market on Ethereum. This funding accelerates our long-term vision of driving cryptonative credit creation & economic growth.