Archive - Li's Newsletter

AI and the "Why Now" of Data DAOs

Data DAOs represent one path to generating new high-quality data sets and overcoming the data wall in AI

Jun 17

April 2024

Art in the Age of Crypto Reproduction

Aura, value, and politics in the age of crypto art

Apr 17

March 2024

Crypto as the next iteration of the attention economy

Memecoins, NFTs, and tokens are new “attention assets” that measure the value of attention in real time

Mar 29

Memecoins as the new GTM strategy

The next big thing may start out by piggybacking off a popular memecoin

Mar 25

February 2024

Dissecting the points meta: best practices for user loyalty

Takeaways from a recent conversation hosted by Variant

Feb 14

January 2024

Multi-Hit Wonders: Embracing Apps With Short Shelf Life

In today's consumer app landscape, aiming for smaller, fleeting hits can be a winning strategy

Jan 25

December 2023

Lessons on Points Programs for Crypto Apps

Points are taking web3 apps by storm, but what can they learn from web2 precedents?

Dec 19, 2023

November 2023

Progressive Ownership: A Model for Application Tokens

By Li Jin and Jesse Walden We founded Variant on the thesis that the next generation of the internet would transform users into owners through…

Nov 14, 2023

Love vs. fame: A framework for social applications

While “social” is often generalized as a single monolithic category, there’s actually a ton of variance in today’s landscape of social apps.

Nov 9, 2023

May 2023

Introducing the Variant Newsletter: Building in web3 social

Hi readers, the following is an excerpt from the inaugural issue of the Variant Newsletter, out today. To read the full newsletter, as well as stay up…

May 25, 2023

April 2023

Building Psychological Attachment — Not Just Ownership — Into Web3

User interest in crypto projects is often transactional, mercenary, and short-lived. Here’s how to change that.

Apr 4, 2023

March 2023

Announcing the Variant Founder Fellowship

A new three-month cohort-based program for web3 founders at the earliest stages

Mar 24, 2023

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