Users can earn yield on their stablecoins, WBTC, wstETH, and ETH via a new Kiln widget on Safe Wallet.

Before we get into it, I want to share this hilarious picture of my cat Nara I took last week. Despite the look of terror she has, I promise she’s a happy cat! She just isn’t the biggest fan of being carried…😅Alright, on to the serious stuff.REKT and brand coinsOver the past years, we’ve seen the memecoins proliferate to a point where there are subcategories of them. From my piece on memecoins last year, we’ve seen these terms pop up along with others that I didn’t mention below (celebcoins,...

Bitcoin’s record highs are grabbing headlines, but Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade is quietly building the on-chain future that could drive this bull run.

There’s a gym in New York quietly reinventing the fitness industry. It’s called The Athletic Clubs, and its core innovation is simple: “squads.” Squads are fixed groups of about 20 people who train together at the same time twice a week, then grab coffee afterward. Show up consistently and your squad becomes a group of close friends. It adds a team-like dynamic to your workouts that makes the routine feel more meaningful. This flips the traditional gym model, where the best customers are the ...

We’re opening up the AI Creativity rounds to vibe-coding! This week, you’re invited to help imagine or build lightweight apps for three Farcaster channels: /luminary, /arrow, and /lumart. You don’t need to be technical to join. Just show us what you can vibe-code: clickable mockups are enough. I recommend using a tool like Loveable or any other prototyping platform to express the idea. 👉 Post your ideas in /lum-protocol. Must be clickable mockups at minimum, and fit within the purpose of the...

In this edition of the Variant newsletter, we’re talking about decentralized physical infrastructure networks, or DePIN. In Part 1, Alana focuses on where DePIN can solve supply-side challenges. In Part 2, she explores how it can sustainably boost demand.

Looking back at these two years

Digital nomadism is an extreme example of the idea that it is now possible to work from anywhere. The world is our workplace. In my opinion, this is happening for at least two reasons: 1) people like traveling and it's more fun than sitting in an office cubicle and 2) technology keeps making it easier to work in a decentralized way. This is not a new phenomenon, but it's a growing one. In 2020, it was estimated that there were ~11 million so-called digital nomads in the world. This year, it's...

After I watched Sticks and Stones and The Closer, I wrote something about Dave Chappelle and the transgender community. On the basis of his content I couldn’t quite understand all the furor. It’s very much peak enlightened centrist, but I think it still holds up. I did a Clubhouse room on it with a friend who happened to know Dave.I found out, years later, that Dave Chappelle had listened to that room via his publicist and liked what I said and what I wrote. It was one of those bucket list it...

A zkVM capable of proving 93% of Ethereum mainnet blocks in under 12 seconds.