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

Update On My JourneyI hit 10,000 subscribers on YouTube! 🥳 10,000 subscribers has always been a major milestone for me on my YouTube journey. Many YouTubers have mentioned that 10k was when they began to truly see themselves as YouTubers. I definitely resonate. YouTube has gone from what felt like a pipe dream to a reality in a fairly short period of time, from monetizing in November to reaching 10k in April. 10,000 subscribers is also when sponsors start taking an interest, which can turn Y...

When you ask people how to best build your personal brand, they'll recommend consistency, finding one's niche, becoming if not an opinion, at least a thought-leader. When you ask people what you should learn, it's usually related to paving the way for your future career aspirations or, at least, something that seems immediately useful. I too fell into these traps at first. I am sure it works for some, but it didn't for me. When I started working in crypto, all I wrote were introductions to ne...

Modern privacy law is based on principles of data protection that were first articulated in the 1970s. As a result, it is based on the idea that we should collect as little data as possible to safeguard personal privacy. In the age of AI and big data, that approach is fast losing its relevance.

Pockets of real demand are emerging and beginning to provide a guidebook for markets that are well-suited to DePIN. Here’s how we’re thinking about what’s most interesting on the demand side of DePIN projects. 

believe app, consumer crypto's b2b trojan horse, stablecoins ~ dollar hegemony's hottest rebound

Ripple and Coinbase are battling to buy Circle, the USDC stablecoin giant. The winner could reshape crypto—and the future of key blockchains!

We're back with the 42nd edition of Paragraph Picks, highlighting a few hand-selected pieces from the past couple of weeks.

Base is not just another Layer 2 fucking around. Backed by Coinbase and buzzing with activity, it's becoming the nerve centre of onchain social, DeFi, and creator ecosystems.

Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian who has written on of the best books about universal basic income with Utopia for Realists (which I highly recommend reading). He followed this up with Humankind, a strong and much needed push back against the pervasive idea that humans are predominantly selfish and cruel. I highly recommend reading both of these books. I also love that he went to Davos and used that stage to be openly critical of the World Economic Forum. Over the weekend I read his latest...