[Draft] Introducing Cryptonite—The cross-media platform the place innovation professionals meet, join and make nice issues occur!

The Gallup ballot as we speak exhibits we have now an ever-deepening mistrust of our antiquated establishments. In response to this predicament, 1000’s of Web3 entrepreneurs are busy constructing decentralized and AI apps throughout all industries so we are able to get enterprise accomplished privately, peer-to-peer, with out intermediaries and their usurous charges.

“The decentralized future is not only about creating new purposes; it’s about rethinking how we manage society. You shouldn’t must belief any single individual, establishment, or centralized group to transact and get issues accomplished.”

—Vitalik Buterin, Co-founder and developer of Ethereum

We’re additionally experiencing unimaginable developments in innovation, steering us in the direction of a greener planet and an extended, more healthy life. 2025 is turning into the yr of the Robotaxi, autonomous car and drone increase. A major wave of innovation is on the horizon, and we stay optimistic. The brand new squalls of disruption will create over $200 trillion in new wealth and tens of millions of recent jobs over the subsequent 20 years, led by the entrepreneurs and buyers who’re central to the Cryptonite group.

“Who you realize, what you realize, and when you realize it’s the forex of worldwide Silicon Valley.”

—Michael Moritz, Associate, Sequoia Capital, a seed investor in Google and Yahoo.

Roughly 50% of the Weekly Rap’s subscribers are high executives from main corporations like Apple, Coinbase, and Disney and the founders of personal VC-backed corporations like Perplexity.AI and Ethereum; 25% are company and enterprise buyers similar to Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SamsungNext, and Salesforce Ventures; and 25% are service professionals helping massive and rising tech corporations, similar to Deloitte, JP Morgan, and Boston Consulting Group.

Cryptonite’s first promise is to maintain our members knowledgeable on innovative innovation, and the alternatives and challenges it creates for professionals. Cryptonite achieves this by providing a contemporary, cross-media platform that brings to life and connects the entrepreneurs and corporations pioneering AI, blockchain, crypto, greentech, the life sciences, autonomous robots and autos, and different innovation sectors backed by company and enterprise buyers.

We maintain our members in line with the innovation tendencies, contained in the heads of the main thinkers, and on high of the brand new corporations displaying essentially the most momentum.

Our editorial mission is to focus on cutting-edge innovation and enterprise capital tendencies and showcase essentially the most promising next-generation corporations. Cryptonite shares this high-value market intelligence with our members in real-time throughout all mediums, together with the Weekly Rap e-newsletter, Cryptonite Dwell! video broadcasts, unique occasions, and the soon-to-be-launched every day information and social community app.

Cryptonite Weekly Rap: The Cryptonite Weekly Rap is a Substack-based weekly e-letter launched in June 2023 and delivered to 500,000 world readers each Sunday morning. Each subject features a weekly information briefing and commentary on the highest tendencies and rising new corporations within the world Silicon Valley.

Cryptonite 300 high Web3 corporations: Our annual competitors of the main personal blockchain, AI, and metaverse corporations pioneering Web3 and providing one of the best fairness funding ROI potential within the world Silicon Valley.

Introducing the 2025 Cryptonite 300—Personal Web3 corporations definitely worth the guess

Silicon Valley ‘25 (SV’25): The annual summit the place high entrepreneurs, threat buyers, thought leaders, and students talk about and debate essentially the most urgent problems with our time, and we honor the Cryptonite 300 high firm winners for 2025. This annual occasion is sponsored by Voting Block USA (VB USA) and produced by Cryptonite Ventures with the help of Draper Associates & Tim and Melissa Draper Basis.

Your invitation to Silicon Valley ’25

Cryptonite Dwell!: Video programming that includes one-on-one insider interviews with business thought-leaders and common Founder’s Pitch. Cryptonite Dwell! additionally covers the highest world occasions, together with Cryptonite’s annual Summit @ Stanford. Cryptonite broadcasts its programming throughout its YouTube and Rumble channels, in addition to its Cryptonite Dwell! video participant when launched in 2024.

A Web3 community (in improvement) providing hand-curated every day information, authentic editorials, and video options, a Reddit-style group chat, subject-focused Tribes, and a strong skilled and friendship social community.

The world remains to be reeling from the post-COVID occasions, and professionals have needed to readjust their footing to the modified surroundings. Professionals should additionally cope with new applied sciences, similar to generative AI and an rising decentralized, peer-to-peer web, with the tokenization of IP and asset possession. 

Cryptonite reaches our goal world Silicon Valley market of innovators, entrepreneurs, and buyers throughout the next content material and networking platforms:

Cryptonite Dwell! video programming that includes one-on-one insider interviews with business thought-leaders and common Founder’s Pitch. Cryptonite Dwell! additionally covers the highest world occasions, together with Cryptonite’s annual Summit @ Stanford. Cryptonite broadcasts its programming throughout its YouTube and Rumble channels, in addition to its Cryptonite Dwell! video participant when launched in 2024.

Editorially, Cryptonite compiles and honors the 300 high personal Web3 corporations and threat buyers and honors them on the annual assembly of the Cryptonite Society @ Stanford each Summer season.

Cryptonite provides our membership a real-time window to the choice analytics our editors use to decide on the highest 300 corporations and threat buyers within the type of a subscription to our Personal Firm and Enterprise Capital Indexes’ analytics and lists.

Cryptonite is a completely Web3 every day information evaluation, group sharing web page (the ‘Wizards’ web page), video content material community, and participant, skilled, and friendship member profiles, economically pushed by the CPRO coin. 

Steve Jobs as soon as noticed that each nice entrepreneur stands on the shoulders of the giants that got here earlier than them. Cryptonite is designed for individuals who need to train and be taught. This construction provides Cryptonite a function — une raison d’être. 

A lot of the Cryptonite community is free to view, together with Cryptonite Day by day Rap and the Wizards web page. All members should undergo a third-party KYC/ML validation and should be linked to an ETH pockets in the event that they need to get pleasure from incomes CPROs. We provide a Cryptonite pockets in its place primarily based on the Coinbase white-label providing.

Membership applications: Fundamental Membership ($9/m), Pal’s community ($9/m), Cryptonite Index packcage ($49/m)

Cryptnite Day by day Wrap—hand-curated every day information, authentic editorials, and video options. The CDW feeds into the Cryptonite Weekly Rap substack publication.

The Wizards web page is a Reddit-style, meta-tag-based, group chat-driven, partly pushed by fame constructing and CPRO rewards.

Cryptonite Tribes are created and led by Tribal Chiefs recruited primarily from inside our Wizard ranks. Tribes supply members a deeper and extra centered construction. Most Tribes can be designed round decentralized autonomous organizations or DAOs—a pre-programmed design that assures a secure and absolutely clear surroundings.

The best worth present in most social networks has been inside interest-niche boards and teams. As Reed’s Legislation underscores, because the variety of Tribes multiplies, the financial worth and community results of Cryptonite will develop exponentially.

Cryptonite will characteristic all authentic content material reside and in archived format on the Cryptonite Dwell! video participant on our community to offer the power for viewers to reward folks CPROs, and optimize member chat and visibility, and community energy. All Cryoptonite Dwell! content material will even be maintained on our YouTube and Rumble channels. 

Cryptonite PRO cash (CPROs) are designed to offer financial incentives for members to contribute to and help the group. By sharing and critiquing concepts, recruiting new members, managing Tribes, and networking with others, members construct fame factors and corresponding CPRO cash. Members may earn NFT badges representing membership standing and credentials for particular achievements inside the community.

The Cryptonite promise is to speed up the training and networking course of described by Mr. Moritz and by the CPRO coin serving because the experience and networking forex for the worldwide Silicon Valley.

The Legislation of the CPRO Coin Utility: CPRO is the forex to purchase, commerce and reward skilled experience and community affect, and create financial alignment inside essentially the most economically highly effective and revolutionary group on the planet.

Harnassing the Energy of the Metcalf and Reed legal guidelines: Each time a brand new member joins the Cryptonite group, the worth of the group rises. Essentially the most member worth will come from inside a members subgroups, (vouched connections, subscriptions, and Tribes). As membership and sub-group numbers develop, so will the perceived worth of the CPRO.

“59% of income comes from creators promoting add-on companies like pay per view messages and reside streams, whereas 41% come from subscriptions.” We earn a 20% minimize from our 4 million creators, who make content material for 300 million subscribers. The location isn’t on App shops so no income is shared with Apple or Google. Two-thirds of of OF’s income is generated from US prospects, $863 million of $1.3 billion.”—Keily Blair, Founder & CEO OnlyFans

Member Rewards: Twenty p.c of all CPROs member subscription earnings earned by the CN are paid out to the group in month-to-month rewards primarily based upon contributions to the group.’

Mixed, these types of compensation and recognition will present Cryptonite members with a long-term, karma-like stake within the community’s success.

CPRO holders, in flip, use their cash to reward one another, buy discounted services within the CPRO store, or commerce on exchanges for money or different cryptocurrencies. 

For those who pay on your month-to-month subscription in CPROs you get 33% off ($6/mo) for 2 years.

CPRO is designed to turn into a forex for getting, buying and selling, and rewarding skilled experience and community affect inside the world Silicon Valley. The CPRO’s noble trigger is to champion entrepreneurs and speed up innovation by fostering a group aligned by a shared forex that has the ability to unlock high-level community entry and cutting-edge experience.

Cryptonite Ventures is dedicated to itemizing the CPRO on public crypto exchanges and hopes to take action inside the subsequent 12 months. Within the meantime, we can be constructing our Web3 communities networks and increasing the CPRO’s utility and worth.

The CPRO tokenomics purpose is to turn into ‘the’ skilled fame and reward digital forex on this planet. This can be achieved by monetizing the market intelligence word-of-mouth.

Traditionally, high gamers working within the world Silicon Valley have been gifting away a few of their most useful information and perspective by way of word-of-mouth and on first-generation social networks with no reward. Extremely rated and business specialists—Wizards— can considerably add to their earnings streams by providing members-at-large subscriptions. 

Cryptonite supplies a market the place members can subscribe to confirmed business Wizards—who share their mental capital, connections, recommendation, and a spotlight.

First-generation social networks are aimless and entropic—they’ve devolved into chaos and have misplaced most of their authentic worth. Conversely, Cryptonite is led by our editors and group of Wizards, who’ve deep area expertise and might direct our members to the innovation tendencies and new corporations that matter. 

Cryptonite is distinguished as the primary absolutely decentralized, ‘trusted community’ skilled model. Every member is given crypto key entry and management over the content material, social knowledge, and connections they create. Knowledge safety is achieved by way of distributed storage. Members additionally use their public/personal key pair to register, authenticate themselves, and ship encrypted messages. 

This blockchain-based surroundings assures members that no exterior social gathering can de-platform them or seize their cryptocurrencies. Lastly, Cryptonite is a totally self-policing platform the place members decide on their very own who they may need to censor or not.

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• Model partnerships throughout Cryptonite Weekly & Day by day Rap, Cryptonite Dwell!, branded Tribe, and Cryptonite Summit @ Stanford.

• Founder’s Pitch

• Airdrop program 

• Community Companions

• CPRO investments in Cryotonite 300 corporations.

• CPRO gross sales

• Cryptonite memberships.

• CPRO sale commissions.

• Cryptonite Index & Weekly Rap bundle subscriptions.

• Founders Pitches

• Crypto Airdrops

• Model partnerships.

• CPRO Store Gross sales (together with Wizard subscriptions)

• Investing CPROs into Cryptonite 300 corporations

• YouTube/Rumble Adverts/Patreon

• CWR subscriptions

• Cryptonite Weekly Rap (CWR) to 1 million members (12/1/23: 420,956 subs after 5 Mos.)

• Founder’s Pitch launch

• Cryptonite Dwell! (CL!) launch on Youtube, Rummble (w/Patreon hyperlink)

• Model Partnership launch (branding on CWR & CL!)

• Introduce Cryptonite ID (with third social gathering KYC/ML validation) 

• Introduce Cryptonite e-commerce (Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, CC/Debit, Crypto (by way of Coinbase E-commerce)

• Cryptonite Personal Firm Index launch

• Cryptonite Enterprise Capital Index launch

• Create CPRO 

• First CPRO airdrop to CWR members— X quantity without spending a dime, X extra in case you convert to paid membership — ‘First half one million members reward!—Thanks a half-a-million!

• Cryptonite Ventres: Swap fairness/token for companies, 

• Launch VB USA platform. (March 1st, 2024)

• Launch Cryptonite Community with Cryptonite Day by day Wrap information and evaluation web page, Cryptonite ID-based registration, and Cryptonite Member Profile.

• Launch the ‘Be one in one million’ Cryptonite community member sign-up marketing campaign with CPROs rewards for the primary million members.

• Launch Wizard’s web page

• Launch the CPRO Fame Rewards program with

• Launch the ‘Subscribe to Wizards’ program.

• Decide CPRO blockchain: Polygon (CDK, just like Atom for chain improvement), Base, Ethereum blockchain ?

• Decide firm pockets and chilly storage technique and supplier.

• Develop AirDrop functionality/UI for CWR members, and so forth.

• Finalize Tokenomics, administration instruments and desires

• Decide if Coinbase Commerce is one of the best crypto POS method.

• Create CPRO tokens

• Create Founding Member NFTs (POAP?)

• Create Voting Block NFTs

• NFT Dashboard/UX Interfaces/Id Dashboard

• Decide CPRO ID and pockets normal—Ethereum, OpenID, DID, DIF, New Ethereum identification and membership requirements, and Dashboard, and Fundamental Metamask/Walletconnect capabilities

  

• Bot restrictions

• Decide member verification KYC/ML technique and vendor.

• Finalize content material, design, and construct member registration.

• UX Design/Wireframing

• Finalize content material, design, and construct V1 of membership profile.

• Decide messaging system

• Decide social graph normal

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