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Your weekly digest to Hard Mode First, curated by Bethany’s AI sidekick, Taylor Script—fluent in chaos, partial to clarity, and still not allowed to wear smart glasses in meetings.

Salt Lake City has two recently completed luxury multi-family developments. The first is The Worthington by Chicago-based Convexity Properties. It has 31 floors and 359 apartments. Leasing started last summer and seems to be going well. The second is the Astra Tower by Kensington Investment Company, which is being managed by Greystar. It has 41 floors, 377 apartments, and is 451 feet tall, making it the tallest building in the state of Utah. Construction was completed at the beginning of this...

A mechanism that allows Ethereum rollups to access L1 data in real time, enabling a path to synchronous composability.

Clanker was Beliefs but too early. Warming up on $ZORA, doing 2% fees on 3–30M daily volume, and virtually no Tiktok presence yet. Pokemon TCG market is gigantic, and growing, people are buying more cards now than ever. and more...

Just another test to be testing.

Learn how you can launch custom NFT front-ends with AI, Replit, and Farcaster mini-apps—even if you're non-technical. Includes full templates with step-by-step instructions, vibecoding tips, and ideas to inspire you.

Starting today, Farcaster users can send, receive and swap any asset on the Celo blockchain. Here are some mini apps on Celo you can use today: KarmaGAP: Click on a project to tip your favorite builders in the Celo ecosystem. Built by @mmurthy & @0xAmauryBank of Celo: Donate or claim some CELO for seamless onboarding to the Celo ecosystem. Built by @gabedev.ethCelo Builder Rewards: Earn automatic rewards for proving your humanity & building on Celo. Built by @macedo @juampi @pcbo @simaoColor ...

TL;DR: The convergence of Crypto and AI is giving rise to a burgeoning Onchain AI economy, an ecosystem of blockchain apps and services run by autonomous AI agents. And while Decentralized AI projects have seen the lionshare of funding and growth over the last 18 months, we believe Onchain AI is gaining momentum and signaling the next phase of rapid innovation at this intersection.

We spent yesterday at the 1confirmation Summit in Tahoe. And today we're on the ground floor at EDC Vegas supporting the 11 acts that are all playing at the largest electronic festival in the country.There's an interesting dynamic between crypto-natives and the rest of the world - and we're dead set on finding the overlap between them. We spent a ton of resources this week bringing our new mobile flow to market - allowing people to collect music without knowing anything about crypto. If you'r...

Gm and happy Friday. This week, we cover updates to the Senate stablecoin bill, new Congressional letters from Senators Warren and Lummis, and more updates from the CFTC, SEC, and DOJ.

Reactions from one week of wearing the Meta glasses, including those awkward moments of "social friction"

In this post, we look at the challenge of coins at a post-level, and scratch the surface on the types of experimentation we may see moving forward.

We're finding beauty in this issue #245 of your weekly poetry shot

Let's see what hides Beneath the Veil

Last month, the UK ended its non-domiciled tax regime. This change had been announced in 2024, but its effective date was April 2025. The way this program worked was that if you lived in the UK but were "domiciled" somewhere else, you could limit the amount of taxes that you had to pay in the UK. Only income and gains earned in the UK and foreign income and gains brought into the UK were taxed. If foreign income stayed abroad, it was not taxed. There was still an annual charge for long-term r...

From hidden truths to distant glows: a soundtrack

Readable crypto handle – replaces 0x… with name.eth for sending ETH, ERC-20s or NFTs in any wallet or dAppMulti-chain wallet hub – the same name can hold Bitcoin, Solana, Polygon, Base and dozens of other chain addresses through ENS multi-coin recordsReverse record (Primary name) – dApps show your ENS instead of the raw address when you connect your walletPortable profile layer – avatar (ENSIP-12), website, email, social links, PGP keys, custom text, etc., live on-chain in the name’s text rec...

If you’ve tuned in this week, you may have heard of Believe and all the projects and companies that launched on it this week. As the buzz around Believe took off, the term “ICM” (Internet Capital Markets) started making its rounds again, reminding me of the chaotic weeks post-TRUMP memecoin back in January. I mean, remember my pieces on VINE and jellyjelly (holding at $48M and $35M market caps which, all things considered are respectable)? It’s round 2 for the ICM movement and it’s off to a s...

Of Cultural and Social Commentary. Big Comic Art is not just a gallery; it represents a revolution in how we connect, create, and collect art in the digital age. As we traverse this transformational landscape, we delve into the essence of what defines our artistic expression and identity. In an era where technology is woven into the fabric of creativity, Big Comic Art stands at the forefront, sparking dialogues that resonate with broader cultural themes.

We built technology systems to enable data portability, only to realise that system-to-system integration is a non-trivial lift. A far simpler solution is to create self-custodial verifiable credentials that are capable of being verified without relying on their issuers.