ViaBTC Capital | The “Building Block” of Blockchain Progress: Infrastructure Construction
April 25 2022 - 7:54AM
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In the crypto world, distinguished institutional investors are
always making forward-looking investments that foreshadow the next
boom in the industry, which is why their investment targets have
remained at the center of the spotlight. ViaBTC Capital, a crypto
institutional investor founded just last year, boasts equally
perceptive insights. StepN, a Move2Earn application it invested in
last year, has become a successful example of gamified Web3
projects. Apart from applications, ViaBTC Capital has also been
focusing on infrastructures. Since the beginning of 2022, we have
prioritized investments in crypto categories that include new
public chain infrastructures, Ethereum 2.0, new storage, and
development tools. The significance of investing in infrastructures
As Web3 applications such as DeFi, GameFi, SocialFi, and NFT
flourish, blockchain ecosystems have also grown more diversified.
New applications continue to drive up the market cap of the crypto
world. Meanwhile, Web3 applications have kept on breaking the
record set by Web2. For instance, projects including Compound,
Uniswap, Synthetix, dYdX, Axie, and STEPN cover such categories as
finance, trading, derivatives, games, reality, etc. Developers of
decentralized applications (DApps) are going beyond blockchain
infrastructures. They are obsessed with the development and
innovation of DApps that yield high returns within the short term.
This has led to problems such as high costs and difficult
cross-platform operations, as well as terrible user experiences. As
a result, institutional investors and users have adopted a
wait-and-see attitude and are reluctant to embrace the blockchain
space. Always committed to ViaBTC Group’s vision of “being the
infrastructure of the blockchain world”, ViaBTC Capital believes
that only the constant progress of blockchain infrastructure could
enable the advancement of blockchain in the long run. At the
moment, underlying blockchain technologies and frameworks face many
challenges, such as expensive gas fees, poor interoperability,
difficult verification of data & index, and complicated
development process. The infrastructure portfolio of ViaBTC Capital
Among over 20 projects invested by ViaBTC Capital, 70% of them are
infrastructure projects (tools included). ViaBTC Capital focuses on
infrastructures related to Ethereum, including Arbitrum (one of the
most trending Layer 2 scaling solutions), Flashbots (an MEV
infrastructure), Aurora (a NEAR-based EVM-compatible protocol),
etc. These infrastructures provide more solutions for the scaling
of the Ethereum ecosystem. Arbitrum, a Layer 2 infrastructure of
Ethereum, has facilitated the extensive growth of the entire
Ethereum network, enabling exponential improvement in terms of the
speed and lower cost of transactions. Flashbots strives to build an
efficient, democratized MEV market, which plays a critical role for
Ethereum and even the whole crypto ecosystem. Aurora, a NEAR-based
smart contract compatible with EVM, facilitates Ethereum’s scaling
efforts and allows users to benefit from lower transaction costs.
Other infrastructures like DeFiYield (an innovative tool for
managing digital assets) and BlockVision (a startup focusing on Web
3.0 data infrastructure) have also attracted much attention.
DeFiYield features professional security protection, a huge Audits
Database, and REKT Database. The project allows users to manage
their digital assets and data on multiple chains/protocols in one
stop with ensured asset security. DeFiYield is likely to become an
essential infrastructure tool for all crypto users. BlockVision
offers a series of APIs to make building and running blockchain
queries more concise, straightforward, and accessible. It also
features a development suite and visual statistics designed for
developers, which makes development significantly easier.
BlockVision now supports multiple chains, covering Ethereum,
Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Optimism, Polygon, Fantom, and Avalanche.
ViaBTC Capital’s continued focus on infrastructure investments in
2022 New public chains: The multi-chain universe has gradually
arrived, and there will be vast growth prospects and huge market
demands for new public chains. Meanwhile, Ethereum and
EVM-compatible chains are also making fast strides. New public
chains such as Solana, Avalanche, and Terra are all rising stars in
the industry. ViaBTC Capital will continue to keep track of the
progress of the new public chains, as well as their innovations in
terms of the underlying architecture, consensus mechanism, and user
demands. Ethereum 2.0: ViaBTC Capital believes that Ethereum may
reshape the global financial system and become a platform for all
decentralized applications in the future. As Ethereum upgrades to
PoS, the Beacon Chain, Sharding, and Docking will all play vital
roles. At the same time, infrastructures, facilities, and tools
that focus on ETH 2.0 may stand out, and plenty of outstanding
developers and projects will emerge, serving the whole ETH 2.0
ecosystem. New storage: Storage, an essential part of
infrastructures, meets the demand for data storage of
infrastructures and ecosystem projects. Driven by the boom of NFTs,
GameFi, and new public chains, the market demand for decentralized
storage solutions will see exponential growth. As such, the market
urgently needs more established, efficient decentralized storage
solutions that come with low costs and fast responses. Development
tools: Development tools involve multiple dimensions, covering node
deployment, validation, smart contracts, APIs, data index &
access, etc. According to Electric Capital Developer Report (2021),
the number of monthly active developers in 2021 exceeded 18,000,
setting a record high. Along with the advancement of the
multi-chain universe, the deployment of more DApps, and the
introduction of more complex applications and contracts, the market
will become more demanding for developers. We can therefore predict
that developer-friendly development services will have great market
prospects. Though ViaBTC Capital’s portfolios cover multiple
categories, the projects it invested in share certain common
characteristics: they are ecosystem-friendly & visionary, with
infrastructure potentials and advanced technologies. ViaBTC Capital
will keep track of blockchain infrastructures in the long run and
is heavily invested in the sector in terms of manpower and
technology. It has provided innovative ideas for the improvement
and revolution of blockchain infrastructures while offering
constant assistance to first-class developer teams and quality
projects. Such assistance is not limited to funding. Instead,
ViaBTC Capital focuses on all-inclusive post-investment services,
covering resource support, institutional resources, consultation
about technology and business model, etc. In the meantime, it
provides in-depth incubation services in terms of marketing,
helping tech teams overcome their marketing shortage. ViaBTC
Capital respects developers who are committed to their ideals and
provides them with substantial help. It is moving towards building
the next generation of cutting-edge crypto infrastructures. ViaBTC
Capital aims to create the building blocks for blockchain advance,
and its investment in infrastructures might be how ViaBTC Capital
paves the way for the blockchain industry. * The above
cannot be relied on as investment advice.
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