Emilie Kormienko

The number one question we receive from people new to crypto is “Where do I start?”. With the wealth of resources out there, it can often be overwhelming to figure out where to begin. That's why we collaborated with Women in Blockchain Boston to create this 'Beginner's Guide to Blockchain'. This guide is a consolidation of curated,... See more

On the face of it, crypto and nation state sovereignty are mutually exclusive. Their logic and rationale are inconsistent: one is based on the idea of a dominant central authority, while the other is build on a consensual network of decentralised users.

A blockchain is maintained by a distributed network of parties (“miners” or “validators,” depending on the kind of chain). These parties produce blocks jointly via consensus. In simple terms, the parties vote on how to process a set of transactions—or in other words, how to construct the next block. The block with majority support is the one that... See more

Since a social token can be used to represent all sorts of things, there are legal questions that each creator must consider to ensure their token is compliant with regulatory requirements.

Everything your body does, inside or out, requires energy. To manage its “body budget” across hundreds of body parts and billions of cells, the brain has to constantly predict the body’s energy needs. Many of these “budgetary changes” we experience as emotional experiences.

We are now at the beginning of the web3 era, which combines the decentralized, community-governed ethos of web1 with the advanced, modern functionality of web2.

The way to change people’s minds is to become friends with them, to integrate them into your tribe, to bring them into your circle. Now, they can change their beliefs without the risk of being abandoned socially.

If you are able to fund your research independently, and you’re willing to build your own support network, I think independent research is at least worth considering for those who might otherwise have done a PhD. If you’re thinking about this route, here are some of the building blocks that I found important to include.