Why Care About Crypto?

Collapse in institutional trust: Whether you’re here as a missionary or a mercenary, you’ll find that one of the primary unifying forces behind this movement is the belief that decentralized technologies with embedded financial incentives (a good shorthand for Web3) offer a compelling, often lucrative, alternative to our decaying legacy institution... See more

Crypto/Web3 is Inevitable: There’s a lot to unpack over the course of this report, but the general theme is consistent: we’re going from an internet built on “rented land” with monopoly overlords, to an infinite frontier of new possibilities. On the frontier, crypto presents a credible revolution to all monopolies, which is why its inevitability sc... See more

How do we comb through the complexity of web3 communities such that we can provide helpful context about what people are "buying" into when they go to app.uniswap.org or opensea.io or any other marketplace/exchange?

A large fraction of Web3’s magnetism comes from the value of the underlying cryptocurrencies. Therefore, a good diagnostic question to ask might be: would you still be curious about Web3 if those currencies were worthless, in dollar terms? For some people, the answer is “yes, absolutely”, because they would still find the foundational puzzles compe... See more