Mechanism Capital

Blockchange Ventures

Cluster Capital

MetaCartel Ventures

ParaFi Capital

Garrett MacDonald

Peter Yuan Pan

Andrew Keys

Mariano Conti

Will Price

GBV Capital

Anthony Pompliano

Clara Bullrich

Serotonin

Joon Ian Wong

IDEO CoLab

IOSG Ventures

Youbi Capital

Nima Capital

Acuarela Digital

Morningstar Ventures

Axia8 Ventures

DeFiance Capital

Kenetic Capital

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The Defiant

Ebisu

Garrett MacDonald is Partner at Permanent Ventures, investing in decentralized protocols increasing the default state of freedom for all. Formerly, Director of Tokenomics at Energy Web Foundation, Founding Partner at Token Group. Passionately implementing applications of decentralized technologies that will benefit the world.

Garrett founded Cognitive, the first company to develop Field Programmable Gate Array technology for SHA256d hashing (mining cryptocurrency), which was also the first company to tokenize equity (2012). During its operation, Cognitive became the most well-renowned company in the bitcoin mining industry. Before turning 20, he served as a consultant to the German investment firm High-Tech Gründerfonds, helping determine where to allocate capital in the blockchain sector, and to the German Federal Association for Sustainability (Bundes ver Einigung Nachhaltigkeit), identifying use cases for blockchain technology. Garrett has built blockchain infrastructure and designed token models for leading financial institutions and startups in Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania, and founded a Tokenomics and Securitization Company. He works as the Director of Cryptoeconomics at the Energy Web Foundation, where he has met and partnered with hundreds of startups top energy organizations around the world to develop the Web3 operating system for energy.

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