Season 7 governance begins January 16, 2025, with a focus on interoperability as the core intent.

Market maturity + Pro-Crypto regulation + Improvements in Crypto Infra

Open source onchain ecosystems are essential engines of innovation. Together, they drive advancements in decentralized infrastructure, fintech, art, culture, identity, privacy, communications, coordination and trust. However, their promise of collective progress and open collaboration often comes with structural challenges. Misaligned incentives, sustainability issues, inadequate compensation structures for key contributors, scalability, and talent discovery remain persistent hurdles. By exam...

Could cross-generational learning and collaboration keep us learning through the ages? How learning pods might help us level up...together

Up until recently, blockspace was expensive and slow. In the last year, that's no longer the case. Also embedded wallets / smart contract wallets / Passkeys will continue to make it straightforward to make any crypto app aware. On-ramp APIs are also much better (but still the largest point of friction for a pure consumer app).It's 2024 — the consumer web is 30 years old and the modern smartphone era is almost 20 years old. Internet software is a mature industry. Obvious ideas (regardless of w...

Welcome to Farcaster 101, a 12 part educational series designed to introduce marketing professionals to the fundamentals of Farcaster. Presented by GM Farcaster in partnership with Snickerdoodle, this series will help you understand what makes Farcaster unique and how to grow your brand presence on the platform. Each webinar is accompanied by a blog post summarizing key insights and additional resources. Plus, we offer weekly office hours for personalized support.Module 10: Content Creation B...

Variant recently had its annual investor meeting. I shared the following ideas in my keynote update on the market.

FERRARI EXPANDED — Director Michael Mann brings you inside the experience of directing his latest film "Ferrari", from intention to execution, onchain. A series of eight collectibles represent core samples from the vast FERRARI EXPANDED Archive exploring the twelve months of character-building, artistic decisions, historical research, and film craft behind the camera…

This was a defining week for Coop Records. With 11 new drops - we brought on an exclusive track from MPH, a genesis record from Swimming Paul and the long awaited return of onchain favorites bloody white and Baker Grace. This comes alongside new singles from pluko and Daniel Allan - both seeing major moments on Tiktok and Instagram prior to going live. Combine that with Cherub's headline set at our Midnight Diner event at Bangkok and San Holo and 33 Below's sets from our Decentraland stage ta...

Welcome to Farcaster 101, a 12 part educational series designed to introduce marketing professionals to the fundamentals of Farcaster. Presented by GM Farcaster in partnership with Snickerdoodle, this series will help you understand what makes Farcaster unique and how to grow your brand presence on the platform. Each webinar is accompanied by a blog post summarizing key insights and additional resources. Plus, we offer weekly office hours for personalized support.Module 9: Content Creation on...