How to hire growth teams

In this edition…

• Building your crypto business development team

• Myths about blockchain privacy

• Antimemetics, or why some ideas don’t catch on

• Our zkVM Jolt just got 6X faster

• More news and updates: The stablecoin playbook for TradFi, Google’s L1, DUNA adoption

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How to build business development and growth teams

Christian Crowley, Pyrs Carvolth, Maggie Hsu, and Mehdi Hasan

Building an effective business development (BD) and growth team in crypto introduces a new set of dynamics that make it impossible to simply copy and paste an organizational chart and expect it to work — especially as the industry continues to evolve.

The right BD/growth profile depends on what your company is building and what outcomes you’re targeting. For example, are you building on a public chain, focused on growing TVL and users? Or are you an infrastructure provider targeting fintechs who want to embed crypto into their core products? Answers to questions like these will guide your approach.

To help, we wrote a guide and a set of practical lessons drawn from firsthand experience building in and working closely with founders across the crypto ecosystem.

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6 myths about privacy on blockchains

David Sverdlov and Aiden Slavin

When it comes to concerns about the end of privacy, blockchains are in good company.

Older technologies — like the telegraph, telephone, and the internet — have all spurred similar concerns… none of which actually came true. Blockchains are often misunderstood as creating a dangerous level of transparency. At the same time, others allege the opposite: that blockchains are too private and so create a haven for anonymous crime. Neither is true.

But the real challenge isn’t about choosing between privacy and security. It’s about building tools — technical and legal — that support both. Blockchains are already on this path. From zero-knowledge proof systems to advanced cryptography, privacy-preserving solutions are scaling. As our readers know, far from being just about finance, blockchain privacy opens doors for identity verification, AI, and more applications that benefit users.

To address some of the misconceptions around privacy on blockchains, we cover 6 of the most pernicious myths, starting with…

Myth: The internet works fine without privacy

Reality: A lack of privacy in the early internet impeded widespread adoption. In general, people had higher degrees of privacy before the internet.

Myth: Public blockchain transactions are anonymous

Reality: Not true! They’re pseudonymous, meaning onchain activity is traceable (even ...