CTG is back for S3!One of the areas of innovation I’ve consistently been excited about in blockchain has been around how experiences can be empowered, enriched, and/or expanded with the tech, and Crypto The Game does just that with online interactive gameshow experiences.A quick recap of what CTG is:Participants mint Player NFTs for 0.1 ETH (~$215 at the time of mint)There are up to 800 players who can participate, and the last one standing after the 10-day game takes home the 80 ETH potPlaye...

Fantasy Top expands across chainsOf all the consumer apps I’ve used in the past year, there’s only a handful I’ve used on a near daily basis. Besides the usual suspects of wallets and NFT marketplaces, one of them has been Fantasy Top, a fantasy sports meets Twitter influencers game. If you want to learn more about Fantasy and learn how the app has evolved over the past 12 months, check out my pieces on them (clearly I’m a fan…tasy Top player 😜):#274: Fantasy SocialFi ft. Fantasy.top and Per...

In Defense of MemecoinsThe last week was a rough stretch for everyone (myself included for R&D purposes 😉) in the memecoin trenches, and well deserved. What initially seemed like a country launching a hyped memecoin turned into a rapid unraveling of insiders, bribery, and a game that has become rotten leaving many participants high and dry.Hayden Davis of Kelsier Ventures, one of the main characters of the Libra scandalAlthough many memecoin traders had an idea of how rigged the casino was d...

NFTs ≠ equity…or could it?NFTs are a lot of things. They represent ownership, culture, creativity, membership, a receipt, and many other things. However, when it comes to the concept of NFTs and ownership, it gradually became clear that holding or owning a NFT did not mean the holder owned a share of the company that issued it. NFTs ≠ equity.As the NFT ecosystem matured, that tune slowly changed. With careful legal guidance, select projects explored how NFTs could be converted into equity own...

Boys Club's ETHDenver EventConference season has kicked off again, with NFT Paris underway this week and Consensus Hong Kong next week. The North American circuit kicks off with ETHDenver in a couple of weeks (I’ll be there so holler if you want to meet up!) and the event invitations and Luma pages are flying around in group chats. One event has taken a different approach to promoting their event though: Boys Club. What’s Boys Club? It’s a startup founded in 2021 focused on bringing more wome...

MMFA: Make Memecoins Fun AgainI know, I know. Web3 with TPan is on its Memecoins with TPan arc at the moment. I promise, it’s for good reason! Since the launch of the TRUMP memecoin, the topic has taken the spotlight and mindshare (mine included) of many other products, use cases, and stories that deserve attention as well. Although I’ve been highlighting interesting use cases that will continue to evolve, at this rate it’s getting to be too much with 50k+ new tokens graduating from the pump....

jellyjelly and the ‘startup coin’So, I knew I was onto something when I published my VINE piece earlier this week, but I didn’t expect the ‘startup coin’ meta to pick up that quickly. Thanks to another startup with an established founder launching a token via pump.fun, we’re seeing another potential meta play out and stick around.What is jellyjelly?jellyjelly is a social media platform that allows creators to post clips from a video chat, or as Sam Lessin (investor in the company) describes i...

Before I get into today’s piece, let’s talk about the elephant in the room.Excuse me?! Jk, I understand, I really do. However, the reality is memecoins are now a dominant theme in the crypto/web3 zeitgeist and they should not be ignored nor dismissed. Similar to how NFTs were silly digital collectibles to many and ignored at first in early 2021, it seems like we’re seeing something similar play out again where a certain vertical is being dismissed as X and eventually evolves into more than th...

Friday January 17th, 7:30pmMy wife and I arrived early to the 8pm show for Dr. Phil Live show by Adam Ray (a standup comedian pretends to be Dr. Phil and interviews popular guests, hilarious stuff and the actual Dr. Phil approves haha). I’m proud of myself because I put my phone on silent during dinner at 6 and didn’t check it since then. We arrived at the venue early, so it was time to catch up on notifications and X. On X, there was only one topic everyone was talking about: Did Donald Trum...

The Penguin Proliferation ThesisAlthough I was taking a break from writing over the past few weeks, this industry doesn’t rest. One team that kept busy for much of the holiday season was Pudgy Penguins, hot off the heels of their PENGU token launch.GIFsWhen it comes to Pudgies and GIFs, they’ve spearheaded the growth hack for years, going from half a billion GIF views on GIPHY to over 38 billion GIF views in around 2 years. This gives the community’s term of ‘penguin proliferation’ some real ...