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Media creators today can issue their own cryptographic token and design distribution and incentives around it to trigger a virtuous cycle for themselves and their fans. A simple token economics model could help media creators bootstrap funding for new projects, reward early fans and rally communities towards a common goal. In short, communities... See more

“The grass is always greener on the side that’s fertilized with bullshit,”

DeFi, non-fungible token and metaverse users have for the most part deprioritized privacy, as the unprecedented opportunities have dominated other concerns. At the same time, it is difficult to provide true privacy while retaining the composability required to participate in complex transactions. As a result, protocols offering anonymous... See more

Those simulations – played out over thousands of iterations, millions of transactions, and billions of dollars – tell us that greed can be good, that speculation can serve a purpose, that memes have value, and that people are willing to spend money to be part of something bigger than themselves (particularly if there’s the potential for a return).

The token design process is becoming increasingly bottoms-up, with more responsibility transferred to the community.

A useful historical analogy might be retail. In the second half of the 20th century, retail jobs exploded. But Amazon and its kin moved work out of brick-and-mortar shops. What the e-commerce revolution did for physical stores, the telepresence revolution could do for office-adjacent employment: put downward pressure on the laborers who serve... See more