From Startup to Firm: Scaling with a Late Co-Founder!
In the startup world, the concept of a "Late Co-founder" often marks a turning point for companies looking to scale. A Late Co-Founder typically joins a company after major milestones have been achieved, such as the launch of a product, initial sales, funding rounds, or even an ICO. The often senior profile of a Late Co-Founder brings significant added value to a company already experiencing strong growth.
Revolutionizing Workplace : Remote Working
The advent of remote work has changed the lives of employees and companies. Beyond the creation of new jobs and opportunities, it has significantly altered the way businesses operate and how teamwork is conducted.
Startup Studio: The Ideal Co-Founder for Startups
The Startup Studio model has established itself in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, redefining how startups are created and developed.
Insights from +500 projects applying at PyratzLabs #1 - The Typical Candidate
Should I have a brilliant MVP? A brand new website? A hundred-page long whitepaper? Should I have a complete founding team? Are they interested in this topic? Should I pivot to “The next new thing”? In this article, we analyze the typical candidate profiles that we receive at PyratzLabs Incubation Program.
From Corporate to Startups, Which Model to Choose?
The Opportunity of "Spin-Offs" for Corporates
Meet Alexandre Vannucci: Co-Founder & CEO at Lezar
If the non-physical has been for long a condition of crypto art, this is not its full nature… This is where physical experiences make it achieve its limitless potential.
Meet Kevin Serou: Founder & CEO at DEFIT
Get paid to walk, run, cycle, or swim ? 🤔 GM Frens, today we invite you to meet Kevin Serou, Founder and CEO at DEFIT, Web3 lifestyle app gamifying and rewarding fitness activities.
Re-thinking the Art Gallery : "Let Art Be"...
Let Art Be. Could be the most accurate headline representing the journey in the art industry at Lezar. Transforming the industry, (by) transforming the experiences. "Art first" is our "Product first".
Meet Louis de Bonnecaze: Co-Founder & CEO at InterCellar
When Wine and Spirits meet blockchain technologies?
Meet Dounia Sitayeb: Co-Founder & CEO at New Society
GM Frens, ever wondering about the life of being an entrepreneur in the Web3 Media Space? Today please meet Dounia Sitayeb, co-founder & CEO of New Society.
Meet William Bailey: Co-Founder & CEO at Bolero
GM frens, ever curious about founders from the Pyratz startup ecosystem? Today please meet William Bailey, co-founder & CEO of Bolero.
Market Insights, Q1 2023
What happened in the Web3 fundraising world during Q1 2023? Despite a 80% drop compared to Q1 2022, there was still 2,4bn$ that was injected into Web3 start-ups, with 439 deals and 14 new crypto funds.
The Blockchain Trilemma
THE BLOCKCHAIN TRILEMMA Introduced in 2017 by Vitalik Buterin in one of its blog posts, The “Blockchain Trilemma” is one of the biggest issues to a wider adoption of decentralized blockchain. In the middle of a massive bull run, the Ethereum network couldn't deal with the growing number of users and it caused very high transaction time and fees, especially when big events took place like the mint of the Crypto Kitties in 2017. These problems led the founder of ethereum to think about the Trilemma, which states that a blockchain can’t be fully decentralized, safe and highly scalable at the same time.** Is it still true ? Is it essential to gather these 3 characteristics ? Let’s try to figure it out !
Why do Web3 founders need to participate in IRL events ?
TOP 6 reasons why Web3 entrepreneurs should participate in IRL events The advent of Web 3 has brought about new opportunities for entrepreneurs, investors, and technology enthusiasts. With innovations such as blockchain, IoT, and smart contracts, Web 3 has the potential to transform industries and create new sources of value. However, to fully realize this potential, it is crucial for Web 3 stakeholders to build a strong community and a powerful brand image. This is where events come into play. In this article, we will explore why Web 3 events are important and how they can help Web 3 builders achieve their marketing goals, build strong networks, and inspire innovation.
UX & Web3
For the introduced community, Web3 is everywhere. We talk about the perspectives and dream about the moon. > Web3, also known as the decentralized web, is the next generation of the internet that aims to give users more control over their online data and interactions. It is built on blockchain technology, which allows for decentralized, secure, and transparent systems that do not rely on a central authority. > It means dApps have the potential to offer a more seamless and reliable user experience, as they are not dependent on a central point of failure. But how is it going UX (User Experience) wise? How can we design the future of our online interactions?
How to create a decentralized application (DApp) on the Tezos
In this tutorial, we will explore how to create a decentralized application (DApp) on the Tezos blockchain using ReactJS. ReactJS, is a popular and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. In this tutorial we are going to build a decentralized TicTacToe based on this smart-contract that we’ve written in Pymich. This is a pretty simple smart-contract that allows user create games, join & leave games and play games. The rule is that each player pays 5 XTZ to play the game and the winner gets 10 XTZ and if it’s a draw then you will get your money back. You can find a demo [here](https://tezos-tictactoe.netlify.app/). By the end of this tutorial, you will have a basic understanding of how to create a DApp on the Tezos blockchain using ReactJS, and be equipped with the necessary skills to continue exploring possibilities of decentralized application development on the Tezos network. Let's get started ! If you get lost in the code during the tuto, you can find a full version of the App on [githhub](https://github.com/nicobuchet/TezosDappTuto) !
Tokenomics - State of the art & best practices
**Tokenomics - State of the art & best practices** The word tokenomics has become trendy these recent years in the blockchain space despite an often misunderstanding and a weak implementation in the ecosystem. Although it is a crucial step for web3 projects, many do not understand what makes an efficient token-design, and what made the success of the previous ones.
An introduction to the Arbitrum ecosystem (part 2)
In the first part of this article, we explored the basics of the Arbitrum ecosystem and its unique features, including its use of optimistic rollups and its compatibility with Ethereum. Now, we'll delve deeper into other protocols that are building on top of Arbitrum. Let’s take a closer look at some of the most promising projects in the Arbitrum ecosystem and explore his own token $ARB.
Product Management from high velocity to stable organisation
In this article we will go through the basics on a very macro level of how at Pyratzlabs we quickly build a tech-team to bring the idea of our start-up founders to market and test our product very quickly during the first year until we gain enough traction to raise more funds and organise/grow the tech-team and prepare them for the second year. In this part 1 of a series of articles we will discuss the overarching idea of how we build and manage a start-up’s tech-team during the first 2 years. In future articles we will dig deeper inside how we built, grew, managed the tech-team at our fastest growing start-up “DOGAMÍ” on a micro level (and we’ll make sure to share some hilarious anecdotes along the way ;) )
An introduction to the Arbitrum ecosystem (part 1)
The year 2021 saw the rise of Layer 1 blockchains like Solana and Fantom, which experienced significant growth in valuation. However, in 2023, the focus seems to be shifting towards Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) technologies like Scroll and Starkware, as well as Layer 2 solutions like Optimism. Despite this trend, Arbitrum, a Layer 2 blockchain, appears to be leading this new generation of blockchain technology.
Meet Bilal El Alamy, the Pyratz Captain / CEO ! 🏴☠️
As our Pyratz Crew spotlight series comes to a close, we are excited to introduce Bilal El Alamy, our proud Captain / Co-Founder / CEO of the Pyratz ! 🏴☠️ In this blog post, Bilal takes us on a journey through his Web3 adventure. He is much more than an entrepreneur, investor, blockchain enthusiast, or builder. Over the past few years, Bilal has been leading a revolution in special investment vehicles (fintech), DeFi, Web3 Gaming, NFT art, Blockchain education, and Web3 media. Join us as we take a behind-the-scenes look at Bilal's groundbreaking contributions to the Web3 ecosystem.
Meet Julien Wedeux, HR Manager at PyratzLabs
Introducing Julien WEDEUX, HR Manager at PyratzLabs ! Joined PyratzLabs in September 2022.Did you know Julien invested in #bitcoin as early as in 2013? Discover his journey below! Julien is a huge crypto enthusiast and despite his young age, he’s already a true veteran in the industry! He loves sharing all sorts of awesome stuff about NFTs, crypto, blockchain, and the financial world on his Twitter account @LeGourmandNFT. Congrats to him for hitting the 2k follower milestone - it just goes to show how much people love his content!
Meet Yanis Mekhfi, Investment Analyst at PyratzLabs
Are you also a young person looking to start a professional journey in the Web3? You’ll find the adventure of Yanis inspiring! Discover here Yanis started his journey in crypto in March 2020 during the Covid 19 pandemic and it has been a rollarcoaster since then. In the beginning, he was trading Bitcoin and Ethereum without a specific strategy which meant he missed out on the maximization of profits, but it was also thanks to this period that he was continuously learning and growing and that he discovered his passion for crypto and blockchain technologies. In addition, his educational background in economics and management helped him to jump start the adventure.Yanis has always been a person that learns from his past experiences and he is never afraid to iterate. So after missing out the boom of Binance Smart Chain, Yanis decided to become an OG on Elrond (now MultiversX). He also started to create content on his Twitter account, yame3_, to be more involved in Web3 in another way than just investing and speculating. Yanis's account quickly grew to 1.2k followers, thanks to high-quality educational content, top analyses, and tutorials on topics such as "how to spot a nice project" and "top projects on Elrond." Yanis is also a true entrepreneur at heart despite his young age. By talking to people in Discord, he got to know a founder who wanted to launch a risk-to-earn game on Avalanche. Yanis decided to join the team and since then he contributed to various dimensions: whitepaper writing, moderation on discord, competitors benchmark, marketing plans, etc. In the beginning of 2022, Yanis also created his own NFT project on Elrond, a scholarship guild based on NFTs around the pirate universe.
You’re being lied to about the governance of UNI
You’re being lied to about the governance of UNI@a16z could control 41.5M UNI through 11 wallets, which represents more than 4% of the supply4% is the required amount to pass any proposal 🧵↓
Meet Marie Huynh, Events & Office Manager at PyratzLabs
Marie is the life of the party! She loves connecting with people and giving them memorable experiences. When she was 18, she took off to London for a year to improve her English skills and meet new people. It was there that she realized she had a knack for organizing events and making them happen.She then headed back to Montpellier to study communications. During university, she joined an association that threw awesome techno parties all over the south of France, and guess what? She was their community manager! With her infectious personality and killer event planning skills, she's always the one to call when you want to have a good time.Marie also had a talent in writing. During her university days, she wrote articles for 33 Degrees, a trendy lifestyle and fashion media, and took the role of charge de communication at Supertripper for a year. This helped her hone her communication abilities even further.When Marie first got to Pyratz, she was like "Whoa, what language is everyone speaking?" She was not familiar with all things crypto and Web3 at all. But, you know what they say, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." So, Marie dove in and started learning all about it.
“La formation est un passage obligé pour développer le web3” : interview avec PyratzLabs
La France entre à l’assaut du web3 en produisant ses propres talents pour l’avenir. Portée par l’ambition des licornes, la start-up PyratzLabs a ouvert la première école entièrement dédiée à la blockchain sur le territoire, la Blockchain Business School. Bilal El Alamy, président de l’établissement, nous en dit plus sur cette initiative inédite.
Meet Matthis Herbrecht, Financial Analyst at PyratzLabs
Matthis was introduced to the crypto space by his big brother. At the age of 17, Matthis received the ultimate birthday present - a My Ether Wallet (MEW) charged with a small amount of Eth, and this was the start of his crypto adventure. Matthis had already shown an interest in trading and financial markets before diving into the world of crypto. The annoying part? Due to his young age, he couldn’t trade properly in the traditional financial markets. So it was almost natural for Matthis to get deeper and deeper in crypto, as you have no restrictions here: no KYC, nothing. Thanks to this passion, Matthis also began to write articles for Coin Academy and Cointribune, focusing on technical analysis of trading and DeFi.
The 5 tools & services on Ethereum you absolutely must know if you are in the Web 3 ecosystem
Between on-chain analysis, NFT (non fungible token), Metaverse, crypto-assets and so on, the world of web 3.0 and blockchain can be complicated for a classic user without a deep knowledge in computer science!To help each and every one of you to better integrate into this ecosystem, here are 5 tools and services that are essential to your success in the web 3.0 world.
Market Insight 2022
2022 was a blast for the PyratzLabs startup ecosystem! Our portfolio of 20+ startups raised 30+ million dollars and created over 100 job opportunities in the French Web3 landscape. We are thankful to our investor partners who have supported us throughout this journey and helped make it possible.
Meet Pierre Redier, UX/UI Designer at PyratzLabs
Pierre has an absolute passion for everything related to design. From crafting thumbnails for his small YouTube channel at a young age to specializing in graphic design studies at a later stage, from investigating manga drawings in his free time to testing different designs of vinyl covers, Pierre has been on a journey to hone his design skills for the past 6 years. Pierre is also a real fast-learner who has an open-mind and natural curiosity. In the beginning, he didn’t know much about crypto but that didn't stop him from diving headfirst into the world of blockchain. When he joined Equisafe 3 years ago as a product designer, he had to learn all the basics of Web3 and blockchain on the fly, but his passion for the technology enabled him to quickly absorb new information and master the skills needed for the job.
Meet Minyoung J., Front-end developer at PyratzLabs
Introducing Minyoung J., Front-end developer at PyratzLabs ! Joined PyratzLabs in January, 2023 ! The life of Minyoung has been a true adventure. Born in South Korea, Minyoung went to Japan for university study in international law. She then came to the understanding that she did not want to become a lawyer: it was simply not her true passion despite the fact that she liked the study. Instead, Minyoung has always been a creative person and is interested in design, so after graduation, she started working as a UX/UI designer in Japan for 4 years. During this period, Minyoung discovered her passion for pastry. As an adventurer, she decided to pursue this passion by moving to France to learn the craft and worked as a patissière for another 4 years. These years were filled with joy as Minyoung had the opportunity to work with one of the top French patissiers in Michelin-starred restaurant, palace, and 5-star hotel.
Anaïs Le Roux, Head of People at PyratzLabs
Anaïs is a truly dynamic and outgoing person who thrives in environments that involve adventure and interaction with others! At a young age, Anaïs went on an adventure to unveil her hidden talents to the world. While studying law in school, she discovered that the structured and restrictive nature of the field wasn't for her. "I wanted more," she said.
Meet Marc-antoine Ourradour, Front-end Developer at PyratzLabs
Passion has always been in the DNA of Marc and is what makes Marc stand out from the crowd. Marc discovered his interest in the blockchain world after buying a master node in 2019. He quickly decided to take his skills one step further by specializing in the fintech major at Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci.
Meet Hugo Canis, UX / UI Designer at PyratzLabs
Hugo has always been an adventurer. During his study at ESC Clermont Business School, Hugo wanted to explore a culture that is completely different from the one where he was born in. As a result, he decided to pursue a double degree by going to Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Indonesia.After the bachelor degree, Hugo was taking 1 year to prepare for master degree submission. During this period, he also discovered his interest in design: actually, he self-taught how to master the different design tools!
Mi-cho-coq tutorial • Proving a minting contract
Let’s now continue our Mi-Cho-Coq journey by proving an actually useful contract. In the previous chapter, we saw how to prove that conditions were properly implemented, we’ll now see how to prove that Michelson mode that makes use of maps are properly implemented by proving a contract that mints tokens.
Meet Nicolas Buchet, Front-end Developer at PyratzLabs
4 years ago, after realizing that his true love is in computer science rather than chemistry (in which he was specializing at the beginning of his university study), Nicolas quickly made the decision to change his major. He then followed the track of Computer Science and Mathematics from bachelor degree in University of Montpellier to master degree in Epitech.
Mi-cho-coq tutorial • Proving if conditions
Now that we’ve proven a few trivial contracts, let’s prove something a little bit more complicated, a contract containing an if statement. More precisely, we’ll be proving a contract that fails if it is not called by the contract owner, defined by the storage. Moreover, we won’t be crafting the contract in Michelson like we have been until now, but we’ll be using Ligo, a high level language that compiles to Michelson.
CEX vs DEX: What are the differences?
This is an article for beginners in crypto trading to understand the differences between Centralized Exchange (CEX) and Decentralized Exchange (DEX) and that explains how Securd comes into play.In the jargon-filled crypto world, CEX and DEX are likely two of the many words that you encounter often. Let’s start with a quick explanation of what each term refers to.
Meet Aharon Lando, Senior Blockchain Developer at PyratzLabs
After finishing his bachelor degree study in mechanical engineering in Jerusalem College of Engineering (Israel), Aharon realized mechanical engineering wasn’t the career that he wanted to pursue. Therefore, Aharon went to Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and started research in quantum computing.
Meet Mohamed Frihat, Co-Head of DeFi at PyratzLabs
Mohamed has a deep passion for different fields of mathematics. From financial mathematics to operational research, from fundamental Mathematics to applied mathematics and scientific computing ... Mohamed wanted to learn them all to solve real-world problems. As a result, Mohamed has a combined academic background in scientific computing (Master degree at @CentraleSupélec), applied mathematics (PhD at @École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay), Economics and Finance (Master Degree at @Université Paris Dauphine - PSL), Financial Mathematics (master’s degree at @Université Paris Cité) and MBA (@IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School).
Meet Baptiste Roubieu, Lead Front-end Developer at PyratzLabs
During his master's degree specialized in computer science at Epitech, Baptiste had the opportunity to go to California State University-Long Beach - College of Business. During this period, Baptiste worked as a freelancer at a startup studio and helped over 25 startups build their projects all the way from conception to the Beta / V1 stage. One of the most successful projects was an algorithm based solution that helps people reduce stress through music therapies. Together with the team, Baptiste also presented the project at CES Conference.
Bubblemaps joining the Pyratz Startup ecosystem
We're proud to welcome Bubblemaps joining the Pyratz Startup ecosystem!Bubblemaps, empowering the data visualisation diagram below, is a big actor in the DeFi landscape. It aims at providing simple and innovative solutions to visualize on-chain data and make it more accessible to users.
What will you experience as a Be Twin Lines holder?
Own your NFT with the complete set of IP rights granted to you on the associated unique Be Twin Lines models. You have the exclusive right to hold, show, reproduce digitally or physically, sell, execute blockchain transactions involving the Be Twin Lines NFT you hold in your wallet.You hold the right of exploitation relating to your Be Twin Lines NFT in your wallet through license from Lezar. The exploitation rights are defined as:Representation: the right of communication to the public of Your Be Twin Lines Art and their image and public performance in all places, physical and virtual;Reproduction: in particular the right to
Interview with Frédéric Bertoïa, Managing Director at Equisafe
Hello, my name is Frédéric Bertoïa, I am currently Managing Director at Equisafe. In terms of my background, historically, I studied business law and real estate mergers and acquisitions. Then I decided to join the 42 school in order to really learn to code. Then we met with Bilal and after the 42 school, we started to discuss everything that was Security token. That's where Equisafe was born. Maxime [co-founder of Equisafe] joined us a few months later.
Meet Victor Binetruy, Product Manager at PyratzLabs
Since his graduation from Bryant University in the USA with a bachelor’s degree in Finance, Victor has been building products with his friends and his older brother, Thomas Binetruy. The first product that Victor built together with Thomas was called MASAS (”make a sound and share”), a decentralized radio with an innovative feature to help independent artists put their music out there. After many years of building products, Victor was then hired by Bilal El Alamy as product owner for Bilal’s new tokenization startup, Equisafe. Finally, in 2021, Victor joined Bilal and Thomas again as the product manager of PyratzLabs.
Mi-cho-coq tutorial • Proving the increment contract
The increment contract we will implement has a natural number as a storage, takes unit as a parameter, and returns no operations along with an incremented storage. This contract works similarly to the identity contract we proved in the previous chapter except that it increments the popped storage by one before returning it in a pair. Proof
Greetings from Lezar
We are so glad you could join us for this important moment officializing the launch of our Tech Art Gallery, that also acts as a Laboratory for in-house and external projects, as well as the launch of our NFT platform where you can buy and sell the IP of our curation.
Meet Anthony Hayot, Head of DeFi at PyratzLabs
Anthony spent most of his career in traditional Financial Markets, as a Structured Credit Trader for Natixis (Paris) and BNP Paribas (London, New York). In this position, he designed innovative products for hedge funds and institutional clients, built advisory services for pension funds and experienced risk management in very volatile markets such as during the 2008 crisis.
Inside Securd, the Decentralized Crypto Savings Account financing liquidity
Most crypto holders just sit on their holdings waiting for price increase while they could potentially receive additional passive income. However, the majority of DeFi protocols proposing yield (or APY) come with risks and complexity that may not suit the average investor profile. This is where Securd comes into play but let’s first clarify a few concepts.
Mi-cho-coq tutorial • Proving our first Michelson smart contract
Now that we have a rudimentary understanding of Coq, let’s start using Mi-Cho-Coq to interpret a simple Michelson contract and prove that it meets some specification. We’ll first get a Coq environment setup with Michocoq working before defining a very simple contract that doesn’t do anything when called. We’ll then prove that it does indeed nothing in Coq, which will require use to get familiar with how Michocoq works.
About Be Twin Lines
Be twin lines is an artwork born from collaborative R&D and creative technology. By gathering audacious creators and engineers over the last two years, its mission has been to build a community of dreamers and new age Art collectors.Each frame of the 111 seconds of dance can be acquired in the form of 1 NFT. 10 “specimens” will be unveiled through time, each specimen is the result of technological breakthroughs in 3D printing.
Meet Nathan Benamou, Blockchain Developer at PyratzLabs
After the Baccalaureate, Nathan wanted to travel and discover a new culture. He was curious about Israel so he decided to go there to pursue a bachelor degree study in software engineering in Technion University, specializing in machine learning.
Mi-cho-coq tutorial • A quick introduction to Coq
The context of this series on proving formally Michelson smart contracts having now been introduced, we can get started using Coq. We’ll first setup a working environment before introducing some of Coq’s core concepts. Please note that this chapter is heavily inspired by the Software Foundations’ first chapter on functional programming in Coq. It is much lighter, but provides many of the examples provided in Software Foundations as I found them very instructive. The explanations are ours however, as to provide a new insight, and we therefore strongly encourage our readers to go back to the Software Foundations’ first chapter after reading this article to get a deeper understanding of the concepts introduced here.
This is Lezar
Lezar is a curative art & design incubator promoting ambitious projects that embody the fusion of physical and digital art. The Studio onboards creative talents and guides them to use tech & blockchain in their creative processes. We pull from and pair together a wide range of candidates from across the Art value chain: artists & creators, art collectors & curators, angels & investors, simple art lovers, technical and technological experts & partners, foundations & corporate institutions. The Lazar incubator bridges concepts and reality by building a collaborative ecosystem and a Creative Angel community around each project.
Meet Wael Ismail, Financial Analyst at PyratzLabs
Originally from Lebanon, Wael moved abroad after graduating from high school to pursue his bachelor studies in London, United Kingdom. Since a young age, Wael had a passion for numbers and mathematics. This led him to complete a degree in Finance, at Bayes Business School, where he graduated top of his class. During his studies, Wael worked at Deloitte’s audit department and completed a couple internships in a commercial bank and a brokerage firm.However, he wasn’t interested in working for a big corporation.
Meet Simon Valloire, Legal Officer at PyratzLabs
After completing his Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Simon decided to go for Master Degree in law study at Universite de Lorraine, specialized in Intellectual Property and Information Technology. Why law study? “I hate to play a game without knowing the rules and law is similar to the rules of society,” as explained by Simon. During his studies, Simon worked as a parliamentary assistant in Assemblée Nationale. He also presided the national student association during his gap year managing more than 20 people and contributing to the construction of several Higher Education laws in France. Simon has been passionate about crypto for years and could not see him working in another field after his graduation.
Pymich Use case on decentralized exchange - Part 1
Let's investigate how an automated market maker parametrized by the constant product formula behaves as we swap tokens from one side to the other! A quick and easy introduction, using Jupyter Notebooks to run some Pymich this time 🧐 On a constant product AMM, the price of an asset with respect to another is determined by the amount of tokens each pool contains. Let’s define a function that calculates how many token A’s one would get by exchanging N token B’s in, including a small fee of course.Notice how Pymich requires functions to be annotated with Michelson types, which we’ve imported accordingly:
Mi-cho-coq tutorial • Formal Proving
When designing and implementing an algorithm, affirming that its implementation obeys a precise specification is very much a non-trivial problem. For example, how to make sure that Paris’ line 1 automated metro PID controller code is implemented properly? What about a trading routine at a multinational bank which’s execution will affect millions of transactions a day? A simpler way is to implement a second program that will perform automated tests on the first one. The shortcomings of this method is that these tests are ran on a finite amount of datapoints. Let me explain.
Meet Alexandre Karako, Head of Investments at PyratzLabs
Starting his traditional corporate finance career in 2011, everything changed in 2017 when Alexandre became definitely convinced of the incoming disruption introduced by Bitcoin & cryptocurrencies. Hence, after 6 years in traditional finance (BNPP & PwC), he quit his job as a manager of PwC Transaction Services in 2018 to manage the first ICO boutique in France, @Psion Finance in synergy with a WEB3 investment fund, @Olymp Capital. He then met @Bilal El Alamy in 2019 and joined the STOs (Security Token Offering) adventure by becoming CFO of @Equisafe. In 2020, he founded a tokenomics advisory boutique, @arthenos, advising various web3 projects, including Dogami. Alexandre has always been fascinated by the quest of business models by start-ups, and is now obsessed with helping these new WEB3 companies / protocols in how to distribute value to investors through 3 supports: equity (if any), token and NFTs. All of them at the same time, representing a massive innovation in corporate finance.
How To Mint Be Twin Lines?
A guide with everything you need to know about the Be Twin Lines ambassador drop minting & how to prepare your mint on Lezar Artos Platform. How many BTL will be minted for the ambassador drop? 111 NFTs (the first frame of each second of the BTL perfect dance).Will there be public sale?Depends on whether there’s any supply left after the first 2 rounds of Private Sale (Whitelist mandatory).
Deep Hedging: How to understand one of the most difficult AI & DeFi concept in less than 6mn?
At PyratzLabs, we are currently working on a decentralized options market maker: the next generation of FTX. For the back of the protocol, in order to outperform our competitor, we have developed a deep learning algorithm for a more accurate result. So far, this deep learning algorithm, called Deep Hedging has been only developed by companies like JPMorgan or Mazars.
Meet Maxime Sarthet, Co-Founder and Managing Director at PyratzLabs
Maxime is Co-founder and Managing Director @PyratzLabs since May, 2021. With a true passion for gaming and esports, Maxime is the kind of guy that created multiple World of Warcraft servers by himself at an early time of adulthood, which he later sold to create Gamers Origins.
Interview with Antoine Delannoy, CEO and cofounder at Bloometa
Hello, my name is Antoine Delannoy, I am CEO and co-founder of Bloometa, an NFT aggregator for Web 3 gaming. In terms of background, I have a French-German double degree, a master's degree at ESCP in Big data and business analytics and 4 years of experience between banking and consulting with a specialization in CIO Advisory for banks and insurance companies
How we select our start-ups at PyratzLabs, Web3 studio
Evaluation of a start-up is far from true science, and is a contextual work: it is relative to your deal-flow, your investment thesis, the investment stage, your risk level…
Volatility interpolation on crypto-assets: motivation, models and results
The volume on crypto options today represents only 2% of the spot, while on traditional markets this volume is much higher than the underlying market. Volatility interpolation models are needed to price these derivatives.
Meet Thomas Binetruy, Co-founder and CTO at PyratzLabs
Born in Egypt, Thomas grew up all around the world. He discovered programming in Kazakhstan, where he lived for five years. Very passionate about sciences, he studied aeronautical engineering in the U.S. before returning in France for master degree in engineering.
Discover how we accelerate web3 projects & the Pyratz family 🏴☠️
We’re very often asked by web3 startup founders, "how can I turn my concept into a product and bring it to the market?" That's how PyratzLabs was born, the startup studio dedicated to web3 in France.
Meet Houda Leroy, COO at PyratzLabs
Houda is a rare gem. Having started her career in a big corporate office, Houda later joined the Ministry of Economy at Bercy in 2014, after which she had the opportunity to mark the beginning of her journey in the startup ecosystem as project manager in la French tech for 1 year.
Build a sentiment analysis of a Web3 community in 3 steps, a Dogamí case study
This article was thought out for anyone with Python knowledge who is a beginner in AI or NLP. Indeed, if you are willing to become autonomous on the analysis of Twitter communities using NLP while understanding the scientific approach, this article is for you.
Is It Possible to Lend and Borrow Social Currency at Scale?
Are non-fungible tokens (NFTs) signaling the rise of a new internet? What opportunities will the new internet afford us?
Wrap Your Head Around Blockchain In 5 Minutes
When I think I understand an advanced technology, I take out a pen and paper and explain it to my parents, two people in their 60s with decades of professional experience yet limited computer literacy
DEFI Works Kinda Like A Foreign Exchange Desk
Imagine for a moment a currency exchange desk in the center of Paris. Everyday it must be prepared to handle thousands of conversions.
Consensus 2022: Builders, Hodlers, Crypto Bulls Converge
A line of demarcation has been forming in the world of cryptocurrency. On one side, speculators and gamblers play the markets only for profit.
Press Release #1
PyratzLabs, the latest startup studio playerin the Web3 ecosystem, is ramping up its development.Based on a unique business model and some already renowned success stories, PyratzLabs seeks toproduce future European Web3 champions. Thestudio announces the opening of its 1000m2 offices, dedicated to Web3 entrepreneurs. This space allows them tomeet up, benefit from adapted coaching programs and receive advicefrom entrepreneurship and technology experts.Building on this concept, PyratzLabs raised €3 million among blue-chip investors.