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DAOs 2.0

In 2014, Vitalik defined DAO as follows: "an entity that lives on the internet and exists autonomously, but also heavily relies on hiring individuals to perform certain tasks that the automaton itself cannot do…""Automation at the center, humans at the edges"The reason “automation at the center” is so…Read More

Beyond Speculation and Stablecoins: Crypto's Next Phase?

Variant had its annual investor meeting on Tuesday. I shared the below ideas in my keynote update on the market: Crypto is exiting what I would describe as a consolidation phase of the industry that has lasted the better part of the last 2 years. During this consolidation, there’s…Read More

The next ten years of smart contract blockchains

The first ten years of smart contract blockchains were born of bitcoin’s original cypherpunk values: censorship resistance, open source, permissionlessness, and a new glimmer of building a democratic/equitable internet on top of a shared world computer. Today, those ideological values are meeting with market pressure, because the mainstream…Read More

All media onchain: crypto as a port of entry.

My crypto journey started with a startup in 2014 (Mediachain)—we wanted to put all the world's media onchain. What we believed then, I still believe now: onchain media allows media to simultaneously be abundant, distributed everywhere—and also valuable, with attribution for creators, provenance for collectors, and programmability for…Read More

Libraries vs. Networks

Library: a stateless code pattern/schema. The success of a library can be measured by the number of times it is copy/pasted, replicated, re-deployed, and custom tuned. This is the tested and true thing that open source does well. Examples: Linux, ERC721. But as the history of open source…Read More