ZK
Why Privacy Failed – ZK Part 2
Why privacy has failed to gain adoption and how zero-knowledge tech can deliver pseudonymous, commercially viable privacy that still stops...
DeSci
The Future Of Medicine Is Tokens
The DeSci thesis: permissionless capital formation for science, IP-NFTs, and why value accrues to scientists, DAOs and vertical marketplaces like...
Social
Commerce In The Fluid Web
Revising Mitra's Web 3.0 into 5C: context, content, commerce, community and crypto, and how a fluid, vertically personalized web blurs...
Infra
The Fappening
The Fat App Thesis: why value accrues from protocols to apps. Appchains, the superapp X, the Trojan Middleware and the...
Social
Crypto Products, But Increasingly Useful
Applying Bill Gurley's Increasing Marginal Utility (IMU) to web3: how social, curation and search products like Lens, Tribz, Shil.me and...
ZK
Part 1: Can We Kill Moloch? ZK Basics and Virtual Machines
A primer on zero-knowledge proofs in blockchains: why ZKPs matter, STARKs vs SNARKs, the proving pipeline, hardware acceleration, and the...
Infra
Why ATOM 2.0 Is Not Really A Gamechanger (Part II)
A breakdown of the ATOM 2.0 proposal: Interchain Security, Liquid Staking, Interchain Scheduler and Allocator, the new inflation schedule, and...
Infra
Searching For Scale And Value Capture In The Cosmic Noise (Part I)
A deep dive into Cosmos scaling: horizontal scaling, Interchain Security, L1 smart contract platforms (Evmos, Neutron, Juno, Archway) and modular...
Social
Social Web 3
The next generation of the social internet: indexing addresses not pages, horizontal vs vertical relevance, identifiers-as-a-service and ZK attestations that...
Social
Improving Community Distribution
Why airdrops are bad customer acquisition, and how warrants, continuous distribution and gamified KPI-based emissions create better protocol incentive alignment.
Infra
The Bridges Are Dead, Long Live The Bridges!
The case for Generalized Messaging Protocols over token bridges: architectures of Axelar, Abacus, Nomad, LayerZero, Wormhole, XCMP, IBC and Chainflip,...
Infra
Web 3 Middleware
A bottoms-up map of the Web 3 middleware stack: storage, data models, indexers, access controls and integration platforms, and how...