Devin Baker

TGE's are at-best more akin to SPACs.

Recently the term REV (Real Economic Value) was coined – representing the subset of network activity that directly compensates the protocol for providing security and state maintenance. This includes:

• Base fees collected for transaction inclusion


• MEV tips that pass through to validators or stakers


• Blob/data availability fees in the case of modular

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We believe that, with proper construction, Attention Assets could transcend to a bonafide asset class. To help accelerate this idea, this essay proposes the idea of Attention Oracles, a new oracle construction that could enable Attention Perps—novel instruments for traders to go long or short the attention of cultural fixtures.

In short, Attention... See more

The problem is, at some point most of the people chanting this tagline are going to wake up in a few years and realize two things: (i) they were early to a transformative technology that provided immeasurable opportunity & (ii) they squandered it by imposing an artificial deadline on when they had to “make it” by.

That’s one of the things that’s newly possible because Blackbird uses crypto, but Blackbird works because it’s not a crypto app. It’s a restaurant platform and consumer app, built by restaurant people, that only uses crypto and whatever other tools it needs to use to make restaurants more profitable, help them understand their customers better, and... See more

Increasingly infrastructure will trade at revenue multiples, and consumer tokens will trade at much more valuable memetic multiples.

There is perhaps no single technology that fits today’s zeitgeist more than crypto. Declining trust in institutions across advanced societies, unsustainable government spending among G7 countries, blatant currency debasement from the largest fiat currency issuer in the world, deglobalization and fragmentation of the international order, the growing... See more

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