Perspectives on Web3 Infrastructure

Research, analysis, and investment theses from the CloudWorx Capital team.

From the CloudWorx Team

CloudWorx Capital $90M Seed Round announcement
April 12, 2021 • CloudWorx Capital Team Firm News

CloudWorx Capital Raises $90M Seed Round Led by Paradigm to Back Web3 Infrastructure Founders

We are proud to announce the close of our $90 million Seed Round led by Paradigm. This milestone marks a defining moment for our team and our mission to back the boldest founders building decentralized infrastructure from the ground up.

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Layer 2 scaling landscape 2025
December 18, 2025 • Amanda Foster

The Layer 2 Scaling Landscape: Where We Are in 2025

A comprehensive look at the maturation of Ethereum scaling solutions, from optimistic rollups to ZK-rollups and beyond.

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DeFi infrastructure investment thesis
November 28, 2025 • Isabelle Blanc

Our DeFi Infrastructure Investment Thesis for 2026

Why we believe the next wave of DeFi growth will be driven by infrastructure improvements, not application innovation.

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Cross-chain interoperability protocols
October 31, 2025 • Ella Yamamoto

Cross-Chain Interoperability: The Bridges That Will Define Web3

An engineer's perspective on the state of cross-chain messaging protocols and what it will take to achieve a truly interoperable multi-chain ecosystem.

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Zero-knowledge proofs revolution
September 22, 2025 • Isabelle Blanc

Zero-Knowledge Proofs: From Academic Curiosity to Production Infrastructure

How zero-knowledge proof technology graduated from theoretical cryptography to the backbone of scalable, private blockchain systems.

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Web3 developer tooling evolution
August 15, 2025 • Ella Yamamoto

The Evolution of Web3 Developer Tooling

How the developer experience for building on-chain applications has transformed over the past three years — and what still needs to improve.

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Decentralized storage market analysis
July 9, 2025 • Amanda Foster

The Decentralized Storage Market: A CloudWorx Perspective

Why data sovereignty is the next frontier for web3 infrastructure investment and how the leading decentralized storage networks are approaching the challenge.

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On-chain payments and fiat onboarding
June 4, 2025 • Amanda Foster

On-Chain Payments: How Fiat-to-Crypto Onboarding Is Reshaping Finance

The infrastructure enabling ordinary people to access blockchain-based financial services is finally reaching maturity — what this means for mainstream adoption.

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Seed stage blockchain investing strategy
April 28, 2025 • Amanda Foster

Why We Invest Before the Narrative: Seed-Stage Blockchain Strategy

Our investment philosophy explained: why we deliberately invest in blockchain infrastructure before category consensus forms and what we look for in pre-product teams.

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MEV and blockchain economics
March 20, 2025 • Isabelle Blanc

MEV, Orderflow, and the Hidden Economics of Blockchain Networks

Maximal Extractable Value is one of the most important and least understood forces shaping blockchain economics. We break down what it means for infrastructure investors.

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Tokenomics design principles
February 12, 2025 • Ella Yamamoto

Tokenomics Design Principles: What Separates Sustainable Protocols

After evaluating hundreds of web3 projects, we have developed a framework for evaluating tokenomics design. Here are the principles that matter most.

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Cosmos IBC interoperability
January 23, 2025 • Amanda Foster

Why We Backed Cosmos: The Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol

A deep dive into our early investment thesis for Cosmos, the protocol enabling the internet of blockchains — and what the past four years have confirmed about the opportunity.

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Decentralized exchange perpetuals evolution
January 8, 2025 • Isabelle Blanc

The Evolution of Decentralized Perpetuals: From dYdX to the Next Generation

How on-chain derivatives infrastructure has evolved since we made our initial investment in dYdX, and where we see the market heading in 2025 and beyond.

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