# alliance.xyz

> AI-optimized mirror of alliance.xyz containing 51 pages totalling 18,119 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://alliance.xyz/. Last updated: 2026-04-26T18:21:38.565Z.

Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG).

## Homepage

- [site-root.html](/site-root.html) (1 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [essays/the-case-for-parallel-processing-chains/index.html](/essays/the-case-for-parallel-processing-chains/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/how-can-popw-networks-win/index.html](/essays/how-can-popw-networks-win/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/lending-protocol-taxonomy-part-1-interest-duration/index.html](/essays/lending-protocol-taxonomy-part-1-interest-duration/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/index.html](/essays/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/real-world-assets-real-world-adoption/index.html](/essays/real-world-assets-real-world-adoption/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/intents-are-just/index.html](/essays/intents-are-just/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/zkps-fhe-mpc-managing-private-state-in-blockchains/index.html](/essays/zkps-fhe-mpc-managing-private-state-in-blockchains/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/removing-web3s-friction-pt-1-progressive-onboarding-and-games.html](/essays/removing-web3s-friction-pt-1-progressive-onboarding-and-games.html) (1 words)
- [essays/lending-protocol-taxonomy-part-2-interest-rates/index.html](/essays/lending-protocol-taxonomy-part-2-interest-rates/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/where-whales-went-to-work-in-h2-2023/index.html](/essays/where-whales-went-to-work-in-h2-2023/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/how-to-scale-app-rollups/index.html](/essays/how-to-scale-app-rollups/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/the-convergence-of-ai-and-web-3-opportunities-and-challenges.html](/essays/the-convergence-of-ai-and-web-3-opportunities-and-challenges.html) (1 words)
- [essays/whale-songs-explained/index.html](/essays/whale-songs-explained/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/zkps-in-web-3-now-and-the-future/index.html](/essays/zkps-in-web-3-now-and-the-future/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/unblocking-on-chain-games-pt-5-bat-channels/index.html](/essays/unblocking-on-chain-games-pt-5-bat-channels/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/unblocking-on-chain-games-part-one-throughput/index.html](/essays/unblocking-on-chain-games-part-one-throughput/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/the-appchain-universe-the-risks-and-opportunities/index.html](/essays/the-appchain-universe-the-risks-and-opportunities/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/a-maze-with-no-exit/index.html](/essays/a-maze-with-no-exit/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/how-to-leverage-zkps-as-a-web3-builder/index.html](/essays/how-to-leverage-zkps-as-a-web3-builder/index.html) (1 words)
- [Unblocking On-Chain Games: Part Four — Food Chain Magnate](/essays/unblocking-on-chain-games-part-four-food-chain-magnate.html): Last month, I presented at ETHDenver on the five major problems facing fully on-chain games. The last, and perhaps thorniest is in finding game design patterns that are appropriate for blockchain’s as a medium. In the first post of this series, I mentioned a few games that might be particularly suited to being built on-chain. (1,521 words)
- [essays/gen-zs-american-dream/index.html](/essays/gen-zs-american-dream/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/the-bitcoin-l2-opportunity/index.html](/essays/the-bitcoin-l2-opportunity/index.html) (1 words)
- [Unblocking On-Chain Games: Part Three — The Dogfighter Genre](/essays/unblocking-on-chain-games-part-three-the-dogfight/index.html): While there have been several aerial combat boardgames, the branch that interests me here stems from Wings of War: Famous Aces (Angiolino & Paglia, 2004). (1,364 words)
- [essays/four-reasons-why-crypto-startups-fail/index.html](/essays/four-reasons-why-crypto-startups-fail/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-good-crypto-founder/index.html](/essays/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-good-crypto-founder/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/how-to-get-exposure-to-us-real-estate/index.html](/essays/how-to-get-exposure-to-us-real-estate/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/understanding-mcp/index.html](/essays/understanding-mcp/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/shopping-is-dead-ai-is-taking-over/index.html](/essays/shopping-is-dead-ai-is-taking-over/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/what-are-ai-evaluations/index.html](/essays/what-are-ai-evaluations/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/youre-vibe-coding-wrong/index.html](/essays/youre-vibe-coding-wrong/index.html) (1 words)
- [essays/do-things-that-dont-scale-crypto-edition/index.html](/essays/do-things-that-dont-scale-crypto-edition/index.html) (1 words)
- [Unblocking On-Chain Games: Part Two — The 18xx Genre](/essays/unblocking-on-chain-games-part-two-the-18xx-genre/index.html): Francis Tresham was a brilliant, if oft forgotten, designer who pioneered the 4X genre and introduced the game pattern “technology trees.” Sid Meier’s Civilization (1991), despite its auteurist title, was actually an adaptation of Tresham’s board game, Civilization (1980). (1,074 words)
- [Can an NFT be Art?](/essays/can-nft-be-art/index.html): Non-Fungible Tokens are acting as deeds for artworks and other valuable objects (be they digital or in meatspace), but what would it mean for a token to itself be the object of aesthetic value? How do we imagine works born and living on blockchains in any meaningful sense? (1,264 words)
- [18 Months Until Autonomous AI](/essays/timeline-to-autonomous-ai/index.html): The autonomous AI revolution isn't science fiction anymore, it's here now. Founders who start acquainting themselves and adopting these workflows, will have a lot of competitive advantage moving forward. (1,411 words)
- [Ethereum is the Only Institution-Friendly Smart Contract Chain](/essays/ethereum-is-the-only-institution-friendly-smart-contract-chain.html): Some have recently come to doubt where Ethereum sits in the crypto ecosystem. With Bitcoin as the clear “digital gold” store-of-value chain, and Solana as the fastest, cheapest, and bridgeless smart contract chain, this leaves the 100-IQ crowd viewing ETH as awkwardly stuck in the middle. (1,228 words)
- [Decentralized Energy: Crypto-Enabled Virtual Power Plants](/essays/decentralized-energy/index.html): A growing number of Californians have already begun to receive compensation for their contributions to grid stability. These individuals have partnered with innovative companies like OhmConnect, SunRun, Tesla, and others to participate in what is known as "virtual power plants" (VPPs). (1,072 words)
- [20 Lessons for Crypto Founders](/essays/lessons-for-crypto-founders/index.html): I recently gave a keynote at Solana Breakpoint with the goal to pack as much actionable information for crypto founders into the time I had as possible. It was pretty well received so figured I’d take some time to elaborate a bit and give people a quick place to find each piece of advice. (1,684 words)
- [Single-Agent vs. Multi-Agent](/essays/single-agent-vs-multi-agent.html): o3 vs Manus

Soon after the recent release of Manus AI and my article about it, we've witnessed a Cambrian explosion of AI Agents. The agent ecosystem has expanded rapidly with numerous frameworks designed specifically for building autonomous agents. Examples include Google's Agent SDK and the A2A protocol, OpenAI Agents SDK. We have also seen new models come out like o3, which resolves multimodal prompts with impressive speed, accuracy, and a wide breadth of capabilities, clearly distinguishing itself from previous models. (1,358 words)
- [An LLM In Your Pocket](/essays/the-compact-llm-disruption/index.html): With the advent of Deepseek, Qwen and others, we are witnessing a fundamental transformation in what is attainable with AI applications. (1,024 words)
- [Degens Are Pioneers](/essays/degens-are-pioneers/index.html): A few months ago I came to a hilarious realization: “speculation” is the most contrarian idea among crypto VCs yet the most consensus idea among crypto users. (1,001 words)
- [2024 Crypto Startup Trends Report](/essays/crypto-startup-trends-24/index.html): In this report, we provide trends observed in our application data and insights as to what they indicate for the broader startup ecosystem. (560 words)
- [The Magic behind AllianceDAO](/essays/the-magic-behind-alliancedao/index.html): A few months ago at one of the dinners with ALL11 founders I had an epiphany. I realized why so many of our alumni raved about us. So I gave this talk during that dinner. (1,104 words)
- [Hard Pivot from Crypto](/essays/hard-pivot-from-crypto/index.html): Since the beginning of the year I’ve worked closely with at least 5–10 startups that pivoted away from crypto. (938 words)
- [Apply to Alliance Perks](/apply-to-perks/index.html) (248 words)
- [How AI Has Changed Startups Forever](/essays/ai-has-changed-startups-forever/index.html): When ChatGPT first came out three years ago, I wrote a wrapper to help myself prioritize emails and messages. My coding skills were rusty, so I used ChatGPT itself as a coding copilot. I instantly felt the magic. It took me maybe half a day to finish the project, while it would normally take me a few days in the pre-AI era. (700 words)
- [Strategic Investments](/strategic-investments/index.html) (23 words)
- [Perk Submitted](/apply-to-perks-submitted/index.html) (113 words)
- [Email Safety](/email-safety/index.html): Check if an email is really from Alliance (49 words)
- [ALL18    Application](/apply/index.html): Apply to the Alliance accelerator program and join the leading network for crypto founders. (49 words)
- [Fintech: Request for Startups](/essays/fintech-rfs/index.html): While it may seem that the low hanging fruit from the digitization of finance has been picked, about half of the world population is still either physical-first or outright unbanked. Furthermore, current technology waves – namely crypto and AI – have the potential to unlock greater value for consumers and businesses. (304 words)

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