A MESH incubated company spins out. We are thrilled to announce that MESH incubated media company Decrypt has spun out at a $50 MIL valuation with $10 MIL in Series A funding. Decrypt was founded by Josh Quittner, Ryan Bubinski, and Ilan Hazan in 2018 during crypto winter. Four years later, Decrypt is now a company…

TreeTrunk is a new NFT marketplace and ERC standard — ICYMI NFT royalties platform TreeTrunk is officially in beta-launch! Proving NFT authenticity has been a major thorn in the side of the NFT industry, as has been the failure of centralized platforms to pay royalty payments from secondary sales. TreeTrunk aims to help solve this. While the NFT boom has…

Spotlight on Mesh’s latest investment in UnicornDAO — As the latest web3 initiative spun up by PussyRiot’sNadya Tolokonnikova two months ago, UnicornDAO has drawn a considerable amount of attention. Via our membership seat as part of the founding team, we at Mesh are looking forward to collaborating with the activists and art lovers who form the backbone of…

A spotlight on Community Gaming’s latest Series A and how they are evolving the P2E industry. — Recently portfolio company Community Gaming announced it is closing its Series A round at $16 million. The all-in-one play-to-earn (P2E) platform is expanding globally and with it, players’ sovereignty and ownership rights. Community Gaming is an all-in-one earnings platform offering esports tournament infrastructure to guilds, game developers and players of…

Our history since 2015 and our future building in Web3 — Our mission at ConsenSys Mesh is to champion the global adoption of Web3. Not only does Web3 create new ways to share information and value, it also creates opportunities for new communities to flourish. Through the investment, incubation and acceleration of decentralized projects, Mesh is helping build the age of…

Join us February 17th to 20th in Denver Colorado for the premier Ethereum developer conference. — First things first, a few introductions are in order. 👋🏽 If we had a penny for every person who has asked us if we are a portfolio company of ConsenSys, we’d have more jars than we could count (although who wants pennies anyways when you can have crypto?). In fact…

Communities existed long before crypto. People have been pooling assets and expertise to share risk and co-invest since at least the Age of Exploration. It’s a model that has built relationships and fortunes over the centuries. Coven, an incubated project within ConsenSys Mesh, was built to find a better way…

Our Explorations & Investments Since 2016 — By Shawn Cheng, Partner, ConsenSys Mesh Change is the only constant in life. - Herclitus Across Telegram groups, Discord channels, and Twitter threads, many communities are asking themselves, “Should we start a DAO?” Sometimes it’s a joke, but most of the time it’s not only serious, it happens. From Wall…

The Ownership Economy begins when NFTs tokenize their rights, gain a (decentralized) identity of their own, and start to act, just a little, fungible. — By Mike Kriak, Managing Operating Partner, ConsenSys Mesh What a sight! Herds of NFT unicorns, fresh off their mainstream media highs, are crashing down the centralized value-sucking platforms that built the internet as we know it. Creators, artists, musicians are FINALLY getting the proper value they deserve. Welcome one and…