Technical Partner at Lightspeed Faction
Check size: No personal check-size range is published. Faction invests at Seed and Series A through equity and tokens; its fund size and portfolio rounds are not Raymond's personal allocation parameters.
As Faction's Technical Partner, Raymond evaluates early blockchain companies across the stack, from base infrastructure to applications. The safest evidence-supported interpretation of his mandate is technical diligence on whether a protocol is fundamentally useful, securely designed, and executable by a team capable of balancing a frontier vision with precise delivery.
Bring the technical founder and a concise architecture diagram. State the trust model, consensus and execution assumptions, attack surface, audits, benchmarks, node and validator economics, token role, upgrade and governance controls, developer workflow, dependencies, and failure recovery. Demonstrate a working system and explain what is genuinely novel versus inherited infrastructure.
Technically credible builders, fundamental blockchain utility, architecture that advances the industry, explicit security and decentralization assumptions, precise execution, and teams able to engage deeply on protocol tradeoffs rather than relying on a high-level narrative.
No personal pass list or interview was found. Faction's published criteria and his technical title imply concern with unnecessary tokens, blockchain without utility, copied protocols, hidden trust assumptions, untested security claims, weak developer ergonomics, and roadmaps that do not match the team's technical capacity. These are explicitly inferred filters.
Enumerate every actor, key, oracle, sequencer, bridge, validator, administrator, and upgrade path; state what each can observe, block, steal, censor, or change.
Determine whether a token is required for security, coordination, access, ownership, or value transfer and whether those functions survive realistic concentration and incentive attacks.
Compare promised capability with working code, benchmarks, audits, testnet behavior, dependency maturity, team expertise, and the capital and time required to reach production.
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