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We all know that feeling of belonging to something — comfort, happiness, peace. It feels like magic being in your place with your people and being able to play your role in the glue that holds that space together. Many communities capture these ephemeral, magical moments of the human condition and turn them into lasting, life-changing... See more

What about the disadvantages of DAOs?We’ve been talking about how DAOs are the bomb and all of that? But are they really the shit? What could possibly go wrong with the DAO?DAOs could be vulnerable to bugs. Although rare, if they are hacked the consequences can be catastrophic.There are no business secrets. Since everything on the smart contract is... See more

The global rise of NFTs has been massive, but in Africa, the ascent has been meteoric, especially in countries with burgeoning art ecosystems. Like much of the broader art world, NFTs penetrated Africa in early 2021, after Beeple’s $69.3 million sale at Christie’s in New York. In response, artists working in African cities, from established... See more

Why is Web3 a Lucrative Investment Opportunity?When users are owners, they have decision-making power and this is the reason so many forward-thinking investors and innovators, including Untapped Ventures, are betting big on Web3 technologies.Untapped is a Venture Studio dedicated to creating products and services to help people live their best... See more

Today, this revolutionary spirit is still what animates the web3 space. It attracts Founders, developers, and users to exciting new projects, the main ones being in NFTs, DeFi, DAOs, and Web3 Games.But believing that all of web3 should be revolutionary is a logical fallacy. It proposes a false dichotomy: one way or the other, take it or leave it.... See more

The State of FANGEach of the FANG companies is in a similar position in their respective industries: they haven’t so much disrupted incumbents as they have subsumed them:Facebook: The late David Carr, who first broke the news about Facebook’s Instant Articles initiative back in 2014, worried that “media companies would essentially be serfs in a... See more

The Internet RevolutionI already explained what happened to newspapers when distribution erased local newspapers moats in the blink of an eye; as I suggested at the beginning, though, this was not an isolated incident but a sign of what was to come. Back in July I laid out how the acquisition of Dollar Shaving Club suggested the same process was... See more