Regardless of the exact structure, many agree that:

If the Fed jacks up interest rates, growth assets could tank short-term. Ham-fisted crypto regulation is a legitimate concern. Markets never go straight up. Even though global equities and the Nasdaq have compounded at a roughly 10.5% CAGR and ended up and to the right, there were a lot of bumps along the way. Please don’t mortgage your house and Y... See more

Bitcoin is what we're terming a headless brand. While Bitcoin was named and given a visual identity by a single visionary founder, Satoshi Nakamoto chose to remain pseudonymous, and has now completely disappeared from the public. All subsequent brand collateral—visual assets, messaging and positioning, and more—have been created by groups of commun... See more

The long-term vision is  for all of Aave’s expenses to be funded in perpetuity from income. For now, most of the expenses are paid in AAVE (Staking Rewards, Liquidity minings, grants, etc.) and this is sustainable for a period of time. However, longer term using aTokens (stable coins) to pay expenses allows the community to retain exposure to ... See more

When it comes to history, we think in straight lines. It’s really hard to grasp how much crazier the future is going to get, because most people extrapolate based on the past growth rate, and even the more optimistic and adventurous ones will extrapolate from the present growth rate.

Is the working group set up to be temporary or permanent?

In a world where most aphorisms are born in on the Hobbesian meme-battlefield of Twitter rather than in books or speeches by already-revered figures, aphorisms with halos are cringe anyway, but aphorisms without halos do actual work. They are tools of thought, not ornamentation.

More broadly, NFTs could serve as one anchor for decentralized identity. Already, several users identify their online presence not merely with a username but also with an NFT project. As an example, co-founder of Manifold @richerd explained that he turned down a $9.5 million offer for his cryptopunk NFT because he identifies his cryptopunk as his i... See more

People know what it feels like to be on a tech platform where they are the product instead of the ones using the product, which is the case for so much mainstream tech out there. We don't want that, and our community doesn't want that. They really see the downside. We have different sub-communities, like open source people, who deeply understand te... See more