Sam Blumenthal

According to Alibaba, as many as 400 company executives and 300 celebrities are holding livestreams during this year’s Singles Day. Pop singer Taylor Swift joined Chinese livestreaming megastar Huang Wei for a livestream last weekend ahead of Singles Day.

Since users own their data, they can bring it to any application built on top of Lens Protocol. As the true owners of their content, creators no longer need to worry about losing their content, audience, and livelihood based on the whims of an individual platform's algorithms and policies. Additionally, each application using the Lens Protocol... See more

That’s 3 classes of mental models for NFTs, which I summarize as follows: 1. Signifier-value mental models 2. Agency-value mental models 3. Right-to-future-rights mental models Or in other words, the right to represent a thing, the right to do things with a thing, and the right to expect certain things in speculative environments. These mental... See more

Online shopping sales in 2020 grew 32.4% from 2019 to $791.7 billion, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce. E-commerce ended last year accounting for 14% of all U.S. sales, up from 11% in 2019.