05 Jan 2023

This Christmas break I finally got around to watching the Arsenal: All or Nothing documentary released earlier this year on Amazon. The series follows Arsenal for the duration of the 2021/2022 season, which on the surface ended in disappointment but was also one of under-appreciated progress in my view....

21 Dec 2022

Over the past few months we’ve seen the emergence of the decentralised science (DeSci) stack. For simplicity's sake, I’ve broken it down into 3 core layers - infrastructure, middleware and applications. Infrastructure. Putting scientific research on-chain, not just online, enables anyone to access it. Most of...

29 Nov 2022

At Cherry Crypto we share the view that web3 comprises a set of technologies that will ultimately underpin every industry. Smart contracts, fungible tokens, non fungible tokens (NFTs), DAOs, are new tools that founders can leverage when building the next generation of companies. So far, these tools have mostly been...

14 Nov 2022

A couple of years ago I bought a Sorare card of the Japanese football player Kaoru Mitoma. Sorare is an NFT-based fantasy sports game and collectibles platform. At the time Mitoma was playing for Kawasaki Frontale in the Japanese League and considered a promising, young talent. A few months later...

28 Oct 2022

Our portfolio company Courtyard recently launched a sneaker marketplace called Sneaks. Differently to other sneaker marketplaces, buyers and sellers on Sneaks transact in physically-backed NFTs. Physically-backed NFTs are NFTs that grant holders ownership of an underlying physical asset. When buyers come onto Sneaks they can browse the marketplace of sneakers...