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Will Metaverse truly be the accepted term now and forever?It has several things working against it. First, the company formerly known as Facebook all but claimed it in their re-branding, spent $70+ millions doing so. Did they want us thinking of them every time we say the word? Or do they want deny its use to competitors?

Remember the membership description in your community strategy doc? The first 100 members in your community are key. Why? They will overwhelmingly set the tone for the community (another part of your doc!) and play a pivotal role in how it grows. The first 100 are the seeds of your community’s garden — how you plant them is very important.

What makes Venture DAOs different than VCs?The key difference between Venture DAOs and normal VCs is governance and consensus.Rather than the leader(s) determining the thesis and direction of the group, the community must evolve and adapt to changing circumstances by keeping open communication and having cryptographic votes when necessary.Venture... See more

In late 2017, Nigeria’s foremost digital artist Osinachi started making blockchain-enabled art. “Opportunities weren’t in the traditional art space for digital artists like myself,” Osinachi explained, “because traditional artists didn’t take digital art seriously—until recently, when NFTs started.”After discovering crypto art on his own, Osinachi... See more

Azuro — the solutionHere’s comes Azuro — a decentralized betting protocol with DAO governance, to become the base infrastructure of betting dApps in the future. Azuro’s solution revolves around two important new pillars — importing odds & results via oracles, and utilizing 1 main liquidity pool, from where liquidity is allocated to different events... See more

A subtext to last week’s article, Tech’s Two Philosophies, was the idea that there is a difference between Aggregators and Platforms; this was the key section:It is no accident that Apple and Microsoft, the two “bicycle of the mind” companies, were founded only a year apart, and for decades had broadly similar business models: sure, Microsoft... See more

MembershipThe word ‘Membership’ has existed in Web2.0 for a long time. However, users’ privacy, data handling and ownership remain to be the key problems. Membership NFTs can potentially transform the membership experience by solving the mentioned problems.

Decentralised betting is not a new concept. In fact, blockchain’s answer to it a.k.a. prediction markets have been at it for as much as 7 years with well-known projects like Gnosis, Augur and other more recent ones like Polymarket going for it. Betting/predictions is an obvious choice for decentralisation via smart-contract blockchains. But it... See more