Yishai Ofek

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.

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.

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... 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

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