Source: DoraHacks Chinese
In "Why Software is Eating the World", Marc Anderson pointed out that the expansion of software is not only a technological revolution, but also a social change. We firmly believe it. But DoraHacks believes that it is not software that really changes the world, but a group of hackers (hackers) who are willing to take on the responsibility of solving problems.
DoraHacks is building a hacker movement - a global innovation network with freedom, open source and technology as weapons. We believe that the end point of this movement is not some kind of "Web3.0" myth, nor is it a technological export in the new Cold War era, but the reconstruction of society, which is a deep response to the question of "what is worth building".
In this process, Dora Ventures is a capital engine that assists DoraHacks in coordinating and capturing value. Dora Ventures' current work will focus on the following four aspects:
1. FDA Free Society (BioHack)
Health Freedom Manifesto of Hacker Society: Unlocking the Market Mechanism of Life Technology
Looking back at history, every real technological breakthrough is accompanied by a challenge to tradition. Today, the field of medical health is still the most bureaucratic place in human history - it often takes ten years and billions of dollars for a new drug to go from the laboratory to the patient, and most innovations have stopped to this day.
A society without FDA does not call for anarchism, but for a revitalized, more patient-centered health and biotechnology innovation system.
Questions raised:
FDA’s buffer period and risk of serious illness are inhibiting potential breakthrough treatments;
The market monopoly of large pharmaceutical companies has made drug pricing out of touch with reality and restricted competition;
The patient’s “right to try” has been marginalized under the regulatory framework;
Small biotech companies face high trial costs and have almost no room for survival.
The solutions we believe in:
Market-driven health mechanism innovation: return more decision-making power of research and development, testing and application to patients, doctors and entrepreneurs;
Let innovation return to the first principle: not "through the ladder", but "whether it is effective";
Right to try: the real risk is not to try preliminary treatments, but to wait;
Create a protective biological quarter ecosystem: help small teams have the opportunity to change the world, not just work for big pharmaceutical companies.
Software and artificial intelligence-driven biotechnology: the combination of biotechnology and software drives brand-new biotechnology products.
We believe that the future of drug research and development does not belong to a regulatory agency, nor to a large company with a market value of 500 billion, but to a group of innovators who are unwilling to wait.
FDA Free Society is a powerful response to "technological progress must be subject to regulation" and a structural questioning of "innovation must go through channels". We bet on this direction because it is more scarce than "innovation" - it is about the redress of human survival rights.
2. Open Source Quantum Computing Infrastructure (Open Source Quantum)
The open source craze of quantum software is the Ethereum of 2015 today
Arthur C. Clarke once said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology looks very magical." Quantum computing is such a technology. But the problem is that for magic to become a tool, it must be automated, reproducible, and collaborative - in other words, it needs to be "open source".
Dora Ventures' investment logic for quantum computing is very clear: Quantum computing is heading towards its "smart contract moment". Hardware has entered the engineering optimization cycle, and the software and tool layers are still barren, but it is the golden age of hackers.
Several key trends we are focusing on:
Open source quantum compilers and translators: Breaking the language barrier between classical and quantum systems;
Quantum cryptography: Using the principles of quantum mechanics to build a new encryption system;
Quantum software applications: We believe that quantum computing software and applications can play a huge role in the advancement of technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and blockchain, and directly or indirectly affect important fields such as finance, logistics, pharmaceuticals, national defense, and space exploration.
We are not only observers, but also builders. By hosting hackathons, funding and investing in quantum open source software projects, and conducting research and ecological development in quantum cryptography, we participate in the construction of the most innovative computing platform of this era.
3. Consumer Crypto Applications
The Spring of Fat Applications Has Arrived: Cryptocurrency Will Win the Last Billion Users
If you know history, you will understand that today's cryptocurrency is not a "parallel world" of the Internet, but the next chapter of the Internet story.
In the 1990s, HTTP and TCP/IP changed information distribution; in the 2000s, Web applications changed business and social interaction; in the 2010s, mobile applications changed human behavior; the 2020s will be the decade when crypto applications will truly become popular.
The infrastructure is sufficient, and a wealth of applications are emerging.
Dora Ventures' core judgment is: Whoever can seize the first crypto application scenario with hundreds of millions of users will write the story of Paypal and WeChat in the Web3 era.
The compliance of stablecoins makes USDC a digital dollar;
The globalization of decentralized social and encrypted payments has spawned the "VISA network" of Bitcoin and Web3 payments;
The infrastructure of large application chains will reduce user motivation through mobile languages and extremely simplified tools;
The reconstruction of the economic system on the chain will enable creators to directly realize and community collaboration and profit sharing.
Imagine this scene: a person living in New York uses Circle USDC on the fast mobile blockchain network (Aptos) through the on-chain concert platform (KYD Labs) to buy tonight's concert tickets, an Argentine resident goes to a cafe every day to buy lattes with Bitcoin "satoshis" on the Lightning Network, and social media (Yakihonne) is divided with friends. These will really happen this year. We are not just investing in protocols, but investing in creators who experience new paradigms.
IV. Fully Automated Organizations (Agent Organizations)
Organizations will become intelligent entities, and DAO will become the organizational form of large language models
In 2022, Sam Altman reconstructed the definition of "tool"; in 2025, we will reconstruct the definition of "organization".
We believe that the future of organizations is not a matrix structure composed of people, but an intelligent system formed by the collaboration of agents.
Agent is a new work unit that does not sleep or rest, continues to learn, and automatically schedules. It is not a tool to enhance humans, but the brain of an automated organization.
Some examples:
DAO Agent system will automatically execute governance processes and protect the privacy of participants;
Smart Widget framework allows developers to configure social, payment, and transaction agents with three lines of code;
Privacy protocols and privacy applications have become mainstream in automated organizations;
Hackers have released a large number of encrypted agents.
AI + blockchain is not a buzzword, but the starting point of organization.
In the past, we said "a company is an information processing machine", and in the future we will say "DAO is a network run by Agent". We are entering an era of fully automated organizations that consume CEO companies, robot processes, and offices.
Epilogue: Next we look at humans with "BUIDL freedom"
These four directions - FDA Free Society, Open Source Quantum, Consumer Cryptocurrency, Agency Organization, are not the future we imagine, but the future that has already begun to happen.
Dora Ventures is not betting on technology, but on a group of disobedient builders. They are willing to solve real problems, question the existing system, and build a new order. They believe that the world can be different and are willing to work on it.
The hacker movement is destroying the world. In the era of artificial intelligence, humans will inevitably become hackers, using code, governance, and imagination to create a world worth living in.
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