What’s Possible: 6th May, 2022

We hope you enjoy this week's hand-picked selection of important and interesting stories from the frontiers of tech.

‍The Ownership Economy 2022

Li Jin and the team at Variant spent the last few months taking stock of the ownership economy — where it stands, where it fails, and where it might be headed next. (read)

‍If Paul Tudor Jones says Bitcoin is inflation hedge, does anyone hear it?

Luke Ryan at CoinJar, Possible Ventures portfolio company and Australia’s longest-running cryptocurrency exchange, discusses the possibility of using Bitcoin as an inflation hedge. (read)

Tokengated Commerce

Alex Danco and Packy McCormick explain NFTs and how Shopify is becoming wallet-aware. (read)

How to position for the upcoming ETH merge

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1/ There is lots of chatter on ETH staking and how the merge will benefit the ETH priceThat is great, we get it, post merge ETH price likely goes up, a lotBut have you asked yourself, how best to position for the MERGE?Here is how I have broken it down🧵 👇

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Interesting adjacencies

• Are we witnessing a major VC pullback? (link)
• Investor sentiment in Silicon Valley is the most negative since the dot-com crash (thread)
• Product-Market Fit in different capital environments (read)
• Why America’s future depends on the Bioeconomy (read)
• Our portfolio company, Meatable, made it to the best green innovations list of edie (link)

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