The following is a threaded dance—part invocation, part reflection—between the cohosts of The Human Layer, as we metabolized the signal from Renegade Futurism: Tech and the New Political Counterculture at CU Boulder. It began with Taylor summoning his models to probe the deeper architecture beneath Glen Weyl’s keynote, a kind of civic theogony in motion. I followed, feeding Taylor’s fragments into my own myth-machine, which pulled us toward the strange gravity of a talk called AI is God. What...

Onchain Creator House was a groundbreaking event that brought together a diverse group of creators, artists, and Web3 innovators to explore how blockchain technology is reshaping the creative economy. The first-of-its-kind event aimed to meet creators where they are, helping them seamlessly transition to the onchain world and empowering them to own their content.

GrumBeast is a new, limited-edition collection of NFTs that fuses the haunting minimalism of Grum Reapur with the bold style of hand-illustrated BizarreBeasts. It's a unique collection of NFTs from two distinct yet complementary artistic worlds (and Glanker Empires). This artistic collaboration blends the cynical nature of my hand-illustrated BizarreBeasts creations with the dark and haunting aesthetic of @rumbl.eth’s Grum Reapur art toy universe. This original, hand-illustrated BizarreBeasts...

Welcome to 29 Seconds of Farcaster, a quick recap of what you missed on Farcaster over the weekend, delivered to your inbox, every Monday. Brought to you in collaboration between @bradq and the GM Farcaster Network. What did you miss this weekend?29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this weekend? This should've been a 29 second walk & talk...quiet weekend but notable exceptions--like @matthew releasing Far Poker 📈 /gmfarcaster released the @fredwilson.eth FarCon interview & @chaim.e...

Have you ever wondered how the price of an asset is determined? In economics, there is a simple answer to this: The price is discovered by the interaction of buyers and sellers in a market, e.g. a process driven by supply and demand. This process is facilitated by various market mechanisms and participants. This also applies to digital marketplaces like cryptocurrency exchanges or NFT trading platforms, where the interplay of buyers and sellers determines the prices of cryptocurrencies or oth...

Below is the first in a series of posts that explores the best critiques on coins as a way to help writers get paid, and how that dovetails into some compelling opportunities and areas we'd love to experiment.

The Farcaster community gets together every year in a community-produced event called Farcon. It took place the first few days of May this year in Brooklyn. Dan Romero, co-founder and CEO of Farcaster, asked me to do a fireside chat with him and while I'm trying to do less of this sort of things these days, that was an invitation I could not resist. Dan took me on a trip down career memory lane. The result is a powerful argument for protocols over platforms. See for yourself. It's just over t...

Welcome to the 50th edition of Unlocking the Future! 🎉 As we celebrate this milestone, we turn our focus to a region where cryptocurrency isn't just a buzzword, it's a lifeline. Latin America is at the forefront of a financial revolution, leveraging crypto to combat inflation, enhance financial inclusion, and redefine economic systems.

Bitcoin’s shrinking security budget sparks debate: will dwindling miner rewards and low fees threaten the network’s long-term safety?

Tune in to my first podcast appearance where I talk about the new way to build as a non-technical founder

The other day I was speaking to a Korean friend of mine and he was telling me about Seoul's new GTX-A commuter railway line. This line opened at the end of 2024 and is part of a broader Great Train eXpress initiative that includes 3 lines (A, B, and C) and that is intended to establish a new "30-minute commute zone" surrounding Seoul. A is the first line to open. C is scheduled for completion in 2030. And already, three more lines are now being planned: D, E, and F. What this first line has a...

"Hi there. I am RM. I read on someone else's blog it's always good to set the scene for what you are about to read, because most readers haven't read what came before. So here we are. I have this long-term goal to start a practice focused solely on play. Not games, not contests, but unsupervised, free play. Not "free to play." Free from stigmas. But I spend most of my professional time to help early-stage teams to evolve raw ideas into minimal lovable products. So this blog—or better, these n...

Isthmus marked the first Superchain-wide upgrade, which rolled out Pectra EIPs simultaneously across Base, OP Mainnet, Ink, Soneium, and Unichain.

A structured process for selecting headliner proposals with the most critical features in upcoming Ethereum upgrades.

The upgrade brings 11 EIPs with major improvements to account abstraction, validator UX, and blob scaling.

An open-source payment protocol that enables stablecoin transactions over HTTP using the HTTP 402 "Payment Required" status code.

Don’t you just love comment sections? Me too. Speaking of which, bring forums backB lueslides by ScHoolboy Q is one of the best songs of the 2020s Delusion is required, not optional...

GM! Our post FarCon week was extra busy! We started the week with the Clanker drama and ended with a FarCon watch party with the roll out of the first talk. And in between we chatted with @poof-eth of DX Terminal about their new game minting this week! Our Friday watch party was the first look at the fireside chat with @dwr and @fredwilson. Plus CastOut starts this week!

Here's a new opinion piece from the Globe and Mail talking about the importance of "early wins" when it comes to building better cities. And whoever wrote it is right. One of the examples that is given is New York's congestion pricing program. We've talked a lot about this initiative since the beginning of the year, and one of its important features is that it pretty much started working immediately. Travel times, in some cases, dropped by as much as 48% and, in the first two months of its op...

I write to you as one heading north into this emergent city, this edge of Esmeralda, from the land of water—California's first technology. The beating heart whose hydraulics powered the gold rush, fed the citrus groves and the Central Valley fields, cooled the silicon foundries, and still, to this day, sustains twenty-first-century cities with the same elemental lifeblood. It is from that ancient yet ever-adaptive infrastructure of flow and force that I make this journey, drawn by the glint o...