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Derek Chiang and the price of one more click
A basketball-inspired collectibles startup brought Derek Chiang face to face with crypto’s awkward front door. At ZeroDev, and now Ethlabs, he has kept working on what happens between a promising technology and a person willing to use it.
Alchemy and the art of disappearing
A blockchain app needs someone to do the unglamorous work. Alchemy turned that chore into a business, then discovered that even an infrastructure company must choose what to leave to somebody else.
Particle Network
Particle Network is a Singapore-based Web3 infrastructure company building chain abstraction technology so users can interact with any decentralized application on any blockchain from a single account and balance - no bridging or network switching required. Founded in 2022 as a wallet-abstraction provider, it evolved into a modular Layer-1 blockchain that coordinates transactions across chains through its flagship Universal Accounts, Universal Liquidity and Universal Gas products. Its stack has been integrated by hundreds of dApps, helped secure billions in user assets, and reached millions of users; its native PARTI token launched in March 2025.