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Pre-Pitch Briefing

Georgios Konstantopoulos

General Partner & CTO at Paradigm

Ethereum infrastructuredeveloper toolingsmart contract securityscaling solutions

Their Thesis

Systems engineering, Ethereum infrastructure, developer tooling. Key contributor to Ethereum Rust ecosystem.

How to Pitch Them

Show clean systems design and demonstrate full-stack understanding.

What Excites Them

Developer tools that improve 10x, Rust in blockchain, open source infrastructure

What They Pass On

Poor developer experience, unnecessarily complex APIs

Key Frameworks

Rollup Economics Model

Framework for evaluating rollup viability based on data availability costs, execution efficiency, and user value.

Developer Experience First

Winning infrastructure is determined by which tools developers choose to build with

In Their Own Words

“MEV is an existential threat to Ethereum unless properly addressed.”

— Paradigm Research

“The best infrastructure is the infrastructure developers actually want to use.”

— Bell Curve

Recent Writing

Paradigm Open Sourceblog

Why Paradigm invests in open source developer tools

Foundry: A Fast Ethereum Development Frameworkblog

Introducing Foundry and the case for Rust in Ethereum tooling

Understanding rollup economicsresearch

Optimistic rollups achieve scale by posting transaction data to L1 while executing off-chain.

Paradigm CTF Writeupsblog

Security-focused blockchain CTF challenges and their solutions.

MEV and Meresearch

Miner Extractable Value is an existential threat to Ethereum unless properly addressed.

Podcast Appearances

Understanding Rollups — Bell Curve
rollupsEthereum scalingParadigm research
Building Foundry — Bell Curve
Foundrydev toolsRust

Paradigm Portfolio

Top Sectors

Infrastructure6
DeFi4
NFT/Gaming3
L1/L23
Exchange2

Stage Distribution

Series B7
Series A5
Seed4
Early Stage2
Strategic1
Orbital space defense
Blockmesh operating system
Standardeconomics
Cross-border payments app
ZK-based Layer 2 blockchain
Zero-knowledge infrastructure
Shared security protocol & marketplace
Synthetix
Synthetic derivatives protocol
Tax & accounting software

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