Lata Persson

My name is Lata, welcome to my personal site. I invest in and build with early founders at Fabric Ventures, where I founded the R[3]sidency accelerator, and outside Fabric I work on crypto governance as a delegate and researcher. I am increasingly interested in what governing decentralised networks can teach us about governing AI.

Selected projects

Uniswap Governance Participation Analysisempirical study Voting power versus realised participation across 14 Uniswap proposals. Top delegates hold 32-46% of delegated UNI yet sit out most votes; on 9 of 14 proposals their absent power exceeded the entire active electorate combined. github.com/latapersson/uniswap-governance
Request for Startups 2025thesis R[3]sidency is looking for startups working on these ideas.
The Risks of AI and How Blockchain Can Solve Themco-authored paper Written with researchers at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. Published by Labour Tech.
Fireside-summariserPython tool A tool that turns hour-long founder firesides into short, distribution-ready audio. Built end-to-end on ElevenLabs speech and voice models with ffmpeg. github.com/latapersson/fireside-summariser

Investor

Fabric Ventures & R[3]sidency

I launched R[3]sidency, Fabric's flagship accelerator for founders building the frontier tech of the machine economy: AI, Fintech, Crypto, Robotics and Quantum. I selected the top 1% of applications in Cohort 1 and ran firesides with top founders and operators such as Justin Drake (Ethereum Foundation), Ed Wray (Betfair), Archie Hollingsworth (Fyxer AI), Stefan George (Gnosis/Safe) and core contributors from Bitcoin, World and Tether.

Fabric is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the decentralised future. Our portfolio includes Flowdesk, Nansen, Sorare, 1inch, Flashbots, HiFi, Frodobots/BitRobot and more. I have been at Fabric for six years.

Governance

DAOs are among the few large, live experiments in distributed governance with real money and real power at stake. They provide some of the most useful field data we have for the harder problem of governing AI, such as my analysis of voting power versus participation across 14 Uniswap proposals.

I have spent four years as a delegate across Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (Uniswap, Optimism, Compound, ENS, ZKsync) with she256, voting on treasury allocations and protocol decisions in systems that govern billions in value.

At she256, we co-founded the Uniswap Accountability Committee, set up to hold protocol deployments accountable to the financial commitments they make to the DAO. We coordinated Uniswap v3's day-one launch on Base, navigating the licensing approval process with the DAO so the software went live the day Base did.

I sat on Optimism's Anti-Capture Committee, the governance body established to stop any single entity or coalition gaining controlling power, including over its Retroactive Public Goods Funding programme, which has distributed over $100M.

Writing

Video

she256 writing & proposals