Yishai Ofek

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

We tend to retreat from unfamiliar concepts, especially when they're being pushed in our faces.

The "crypto bro" stereotype can turn people off from learning more about the technology.

If you can't stand it when people talk about crypto, you're not alone.

If you’re a VC, financialization might seem natural and even fun. But most normal people don’t find financialization fun in the least. They view maintaining their 401(k) as a burden, they mostly ignore the stock market, and they don’t open their bills for a few days when they come in the mail. The idea that they’d want to get into a complicated fin... See more

...trying heroically on a podcast to explain why putting one’s house “on the blockchain” might be better than the current system. Eventually, after much grasping and a bit of “these things could all be NFTs,” McCormick ended up more or less where he began. “You’ve just re-created the entire mortgage infrastructure that already exists today,” a host... See more

Minting IP as an NFT enables the IP to be financialised — it can be held by a DAO, tokenised, have a liquid market created around it, collateralised, and borrowed against.

The IP-NFT enables new fundraising and collaboration strategies for researchers by combining legal and technical frameworks with NFT technology. Early-stage research can be financed without endless grant applications, creating a startup and raising VC or needing to file a patent.