If you’ve followed BizarreBeasts for any length of time, you know I’m all in on building in public: art first, community always, and onchain by ethos. But behind all the BIZARRE art drops, games, and music, there’s a powerful and highly effective infrastructure fueling the BizarreBeasts ($BB) movement. (Pssst... and it doesn't cost anything 😳) Lately, that’s meant building the entire $BB ecosystem on Empire Builder, a protocol powered by $GLANKER. After diligently searching for well over a y...

On air today. Turning collective memories into movement with interactive album SCENES. Recorded at Thunderboom Records' event in London on April 11, this set features remixes of historical BBC audio and visuals.

Here's an interesting figure from the Missing Middle Initiative showing the change in population of 0-4 year olds in Southern Ontario between 2016 and 2021:What this shows is that the population of young children declined in the Greater Toronto Area and in Ottawa, but increased dramatically in areas further out, such as in Lanark County (outside of Ottawa) and Oxford County (between London and Hamilton). If you know what home prices are like in Southern Ontario, then this probably makes intui...

The company is positioning itself as a pure-play Ethereum-native platform focused on staking and treasury management.

J.P. Morgan is launching a USD-backed deposit token (JPMD) proof of concept on Base through Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, its industry-leading blockchain business unit. The pilot will enable an onchain payment rail that provides J.P. Morgan institutional clients the ability to eventually settle instantly and securely at a fraction of a cent. This is a major milestone in bringing traditional banking institutions onchain, and shows how Base helps banks build trusted financial products.The fina...

field notes from berlin blockchain week, the financialization of creative work; intelligence, artificial and otherwise; onchain affiliate marketing; surviving the uncertainty tax

Most global cities now have restrictions, and in some cases an effective ban, on short-term rentals. Here are a some examples with some of the key rules as I understand them (and by this, I mean what ChatGPT is telling me): Berlin: Secondary residence rentals are limited to 90 days per yearLondon: Annual cap of 90 nightsMexico City: Annual cap of 180 nightsNew York City: Only host-present stays allowedParis: Annual cap of 120 nightsRio de Janeiro: Annual cap of 90 nightsSan Francisco: Annual ...

A general-purpose ZK prover that enables real-time settlement. cross-chain coordination, and can run local proof generation on consumer hardware.

This week, we take on one of the most powerful opcodes in the EVM toolbox: CALL.What is CALL?CALL lets your smart contract talk to other contracts (or even itself) on the ...

Welcoming a new frequency from Acid Test. The Farcaster-born radio show hosted by Matthew Chaim which fuses music, conversation and mini app experimentation is now its own channel on UFO.