Solana announced their next hackathon - Ignition. For any builders applying, I’d be happy to take a look at your application & also entrants should consider building on top of Saber too.
Amazon will be using Affirm for their buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) checkout option, in a move following Square’s acquisition of AfterPay for $29B.
Databricks raised a massive $1.6B on a $38B valuation with a (small) participation from us at Race Capital & my partner Alfred being their early seed investor from day one.
Apple and Google might not be able to maintain their tight grip over the underlying payment rails forever.
🤔 Deep Dive Posts
My partner at Race Capital, Edith Yeung, published this year’s China Internet Report (sponsored by Race Capital) which is the definitive annual report on the China tech ecosystem.
Privacy is coming whether tech companies like it or not, but do we really know what privacy means?
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