Dovey Wan is a founding partner of Primitive Ventures, a cryptoasset investment fund. Wan formerly worked as a product manager at eBay. She's invested in a number of crypto-focused companies, including Brave, Messari, and Polychain Capital.
All coin and product reviews by expert Dovey Wan.
Dovey Wan
on Algorand
Founding Partner at Primitive Ventures
Algorand now offers a 85% refund in 3 weeks for the first auction if you give up the 90% strike 1 year, and canceled the planned following auctions.
If distribution itself can be so dramatic and dubious, I have little confidence in all other aspects, not even mention code is law.
Full review2019-08-01
Dovey Wan
on Grin
Founding Partner at Primitive Ventures
Grin has designed may be the most compelling meme after Bitcoin - "Time is Money."
The meme should convey a tangible, powerful and promising message. "Finance" is already a highly abstract concept, not mentioning "Defi"
Full review2019-03-26
Dovey Wan
on Telegram Open Network
Founding Partner at Primitive Ventures
According to Telegram team "Grams are NOT investment products and there should be NO expectation of future profit or gain from the purchase"
Yes it's not investment, it's "donation."
Full review2020-01-07
Dovey Wan
on Gemini Dollar
Founding Partner at Primitive Ventures
The most compliant [stablecoin] GUSD largely fails with a underwhelming liquidity.
While $USDT is now trading at ~3% OTC premium and 100x better liquidity than all other fiat coins combined, despite [the] NYAG turmoil.
Liquidity is the single most important thing for a stablecoin to succeed
Full review2019-07-12
Dovey Wan
on Ethereum
Founding Partner at Primitive Ventures
Ethereum is way too complex and versatile (comparing with Bitcoin) to keep the community well together. It's diluting the meme of Ethereum, making future splits kill the origin. That's my biggest concern.
Full review2019-03-26
Dovey Wan
on Tether
Founding Partner at Primitive Ventures
[Although]I greatly expect [the] average Chinese [person] will chase after Bitcoin as a hedge, in reality many of them who have the crypto asset access will chase after USDT instead
USD/CNH is now over 7.
Full review2020-02-02