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Maria 🐸

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Maria 🐸

@MariaShen

General Partner @ElectricCapital. Views my own. 🦇🔊

Joined March 2009

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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
Jan 21
I'm excited to share 26 ideas in user-owned tech! We @ElectricCapital invest $1M to $20M in user-owned technology that gives people control, privacy, and access. 6 ideas to highlight: In Finance as Entertainment... - Spectator capital: Live stream audiences need ways to
Electric Capital ⚡️
@ElectricCapital
Jan 21
1/ We @ElectricCapital want to invest in 26 ideas that give users control, privacy, & access. Why now: •Trust in institutions is collapsing •AI centralizes power but lowers build costs •User-owned tech defends personal freedom data.electriccapital.com/posts/investin… 👇
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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
Sep 9, 2020
Only static over the radio. The same as it had been the last ten days. I knew there would be nothing else. I gathered what last provisions I had, donned my gas mask, and set out into the city to find survivors. Find them...before *they* find us... #apocalypse2020 #SanFrancisco
Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
Dec 12, 2024
We are delighted to release the 6th annual @ElectricCapital Developer Report! We analyzed a record 902M code commits across 1.7M repos thanks to the 829 people who contributed to making this report since inception. How did 2024 in crypto look in data? Long thread below 👇🏽
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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
Jul 10, 2024
1/ We are excited to introduce the @ElectricCapital Crypto Market Map! The Crypto Market Map tracks 1,500+ projects in crypto. It contextualizes every major project in crypto by organizing projects into 6 tech layers & 137 categories. cryptomarketmap.org Let's explore 👇🏽
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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
Jan 17, 2023
1/ Time for the 4th annual @ElectricCapital Developer Report! This year we are also proud to launch developerreport.com -- showcasing the data behind the report. We analyzed 250m code commits and 300+ people contributed to this year's report. Let's dig in👇
Developer Report
From developerreport.com
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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
Jan 17, 2024
0/ We are delighted to release the 5th annual @ElectricCapital Developer Report We analyzed a record 485 million code commits across 818k repositories—20x more code than our first report from 2019! 356+ people across the community contributed to making this report. Long,
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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
Jul 8, 2025
Stablecoins are spreading the dollar faster than any financial tech in history. And Ethereum is becoming the financial backbone. For Ethereum’s 10th birthday, we’re publishing our updated @ElectricCapital ETH thesis: Remaking the Case for ETH 🧵 1/
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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
May 25, 2021
We're in an NFT renaissance! I'm blow away by the new uses for NFTs I see every day. Here are 5 new frontiers for NFTs & predictions for the future: medium.com/electric-capit… Monster Thread of 5 new NFT frontiers👇🏽 (1/28)
Five New Frontiers for NFTs
From medium.com
Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
Mar 24, 2023
The U.S. has lost its lead in blockchain developers & has gone from 40% to 29% market share of open source devs. We analyzed 200+ million code commits & 11k+ developer profiles to capture geography data. Full analysis here: developerreport.com/developer-repo… Let's break it down 👇🏽
developerreport.com
Developer Report
The source for crypto open-source developer data. Built by Electric Capital as a public good.
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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
May 23, 2025
Ethereum is the only safe place for institutions to store trillions of dollars. 1. Ethereum's decentralization is nearly impossible to replicate -- community funded (not VC funded), started as PoW 2. Few systems in the world have the reliability of Ethereum - 100% uptime over
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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
Oct 30, 2024
We @ElectricCapital analyzed 110k+ developer profiles to understand crypto devs geographically. Asia is now #1 for crypto devs. The US is losing market share. Crypto impacts every state in the US -- crypto should be non-partisan. Here’s what the data shows & why it matters:
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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
May 12, 2025
Reminder: Ethereum has 100% uptime through 16 upgrades. That’s not just an engineering flex. It’s why we trust it to secure billions. Ethereum is reliable & credibly neutral. Ethereum is the only foundation for a truly free global economy.
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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
Jul 30, 2025
1/ Ethereum hosts the world’s largest decentralized financial system. And its lead is compounding. ETH's network effects built over 10 years are nearly impossible to replicate. For its 10th birthday, here’s the data showing where Ethereum leads & why it’s not slowing down:
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Maria 🐸
@MariaShen
Aug 19, 2020
China is starting to test the Digital RMB and educate its citizens. 🇨🇳 This video is circulating WeChat: China's digital currency in action w/ the Agricultural Bank of China The woman takes out 50RMB from her bank card & converts it into China's new digital RMB
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