Devin Baker

We no longer lack tools for creating content. When content production and distribution is infinite, the important aspect is its primary function in crafting and proliferating culture*.* In other words, the value of content today comes primarily from its use in cultural production.

In a traditional rollup, users send their transactions to a dedicated sequencer — essentially a single machine operated by the rollup team. This sequencer is responsible for collecting user transactions, determining their sequence, and packaging them into blocks that are posted on Ethereum.

That taste for outsized risk has seeped into everyday culture. Wage growth has severely lagged compounded capital, causing ordinary people to increasingly see their best shot at real upward mobility in negative EV jackpots. Online gambling, 0DTE options, retail meme stocks, sports betting, and crypto memecoins all testify to the phenomena of... See more

As with every type of network, there are two main areas of focus: the demand side and the supply side. Suffice it to say, the demand side is (almost) always the more difficult of the two to prove out. The simplest explanation for this is that the token incentive model maps easiest to the supply side. If you’re already driving a car or have some... See more

The more and better tools, the bigger and harder challenges builders can address with them.

There have been louder and louder calls for the death of crypto. But this is evergreen. When you start to see “crypto is dead” content go viral and it becomes en vogue to shit on the space as an insider, then rest assured you’ve reached some sort of sentiment bottom.

In fact, capital markets themselves are no longer systems for raising new capital, but have become vast mechanisms for refinancing these huge debts. This makes the balance sheet capacity of the financial sector, or ‘liquidity’, far more important than interest rates as a cycle determinant and it means that the business cycle increasingly hums along... See more

Global semiconductor sales remain very strong, but the impulse growth phase has now passed. And this is where the cycle shifts...

Once the chips are dispatched, the rest of the AI and robotics ecosystem has to be built around them. Data centres need power, cooling, networking, storage, and grid upgrades. Factories need automation, sensors, robotics... See more

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