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AbstractThis project will investigate game-theoretic mechanisms for a novel governance structure which we call “epistocracy,” a natural successor to futarchy, which facilitates autonomous consensus on the legitimacy of competing propositional statements for use in group decision making. We will study the space of proposed mechanisms which incentivize the discovery of the mutual relevance of a pair of claims in an epistocracy market; we call these Carroll mechanisms. Beginning with an initial ...

Get ready for a $BIZARRE revolution, because our limited-edition BizarreBeasts ($BB) VibeCard Packs are now LIVE on @vibemarket's groundbreaking Vibe.Market, created by @n and @jc! 🔥 This isn't just a standard NFT drop that you have seen before; it's a new, fully onchain platform where you rip packs and pull NFTs with rarity that trade like memecoins! The platform involves instant sellback, onchain randomness, and deep PvP/PvE game theory!In less than 24 hours since launch, these packs are a...

According to recent data from Altus, Toronto recorded 42 new condominium sales in the month of May. That's a 97% decrease since May 2021, for a city of over 3 million people (city proper, not the metro area). So for all intents and purposes, the market is shut off. And it has resulted in upwards of 12,000 construction sector jobs disappearing over the last 12 months in Ontario. Moreover, it has left the Toronto Area with an unemployment rate that is close to 10%. But that's not all. The Missi...

So this seems like a pretty cool strategy. Amancio Ortega — who is the founder of the fashion brand Zara — is a ~59% owner of Inditex, which is the largest fashion group in the world and the parent company of Zara. This ownership stake sits in his investment vehicle Pontegadea and each year the dividends of Inditex result in many billions of euros being deposited into its accounts. In 2022, it was ~€1.7 billion. In 2023, it was ~€2.2 billion. And this year, it is forecasted to exceed €3 billi...

A couple meme/trend posts recently sent me spiraling through nostalgia in ways I haven't in forever so as (un)fortunate subscribers to my stream of consciousness here you get to take that journey with me. "Date yourself by posting a song you loved in high school" I forget the exact wording, but that was the general idea and if you follow me on Instagram I apologize/you're welcome for the absolute flood of songs I posted featuring everything from Assück to Geto Boys to Lush to Youth of Today b...

A non-custodial smart wallet integrated with the Farcaster social graph, featuring a social feed, payments, secure chat, and over a thousand apps.

Base is evolving to be more than a chain. Today, at A New Day One, we introduced the Base app (formerly Coinbase Wallet), an everything app to create, earn, trade, discover apps, and chat with friends all in one place. When you sign up for the Base app, you’ll automatically also get the best of the Base Account, the easiest way to manage your onchain identity, and Base Pay, the fastest way to checkout with USDC.

Introducing Base Accounts and the Base Account SDK, an evolution of smart wallet that enables Base Pay and Sign in with Base

Offline Protocol Building for the 2 Billion People Left Behind; Shaw's AI Agent Reality Check; The Crypto-Goes-Mainstream Paradox; The Art of Storytelling

Welcome to today’s edition of Slide Rule Pass — your concise, sharp read on the most important transfer stories across Europe. With pre-season in full swing and squads taking shape, the market is moving fast.

Magazines, zines, journals, blogs, newsletters, vlogs, channels, newspapers, and everything in between. These media have each had their major shift, and yet again witness another such agonizing change. Paths to truth and beauty in the digital age are being dominated, if not suffocated, by sloppy artificial content in the form of personalized, algorithmically fed bots, which lack any understanding of real meaning. This leads to a distorted perception of both literacy and reality, in which the ...

For all the buzz around staking, yield, and liquid tokens, few newcomers get the full picture of where DeFi came from, how it works, and why it matters now more than ever. In this special edition, we’re going back to the roots—and looking forward at how real-world assets, AI, and social infrastructure are reshaping what DeFi can be.

Louie O'Connor believes the industry's survival depends on better storytelling, and he's betting his career on it

Vibecoding should vibe with your daily product ideas. Dumping an abundance of product ideas into a zetteltasken niché of your personal local environment is a thing of the past. Lately I started playing with Claude Code in VSCode. Now, some people, even massive reporters do not get the difference between the base model LLMs and coding agents. Coding agents helped me a lot in accelerating the thought process into tangible apps. So, this is the first one, enjoy: https://market-cap-tracker.vercel...

When I was first involved with then-emergent DeFi scene in the summer of 2020 aka DeFi Summer, I was one of those kids in a Japanese grammar class who didn't know it was even better to learn Kana first. You had the Anki, cheap Steam games, free nerd material all over the place. However, the art of dashboard making, data analysis etc. were totally alien to me as a speculative archivist with a qualitative background in American and comparative literature. In the heat of the now, I kept graduati...

So should we meet central and later go to my place?" In the context of the sender being a friend or partner, quite normal. In the context I encountered this in, to me, a reason to start overthinking about this culture of instant gratification. The irony was heightened by the fact that the sender had, in previous messages, established that he found relationships to be a beautiful thing, but wouldn't be opposed to a friendship with benefits either. What's more, the sentence was followed by: "or...

Laws have always evolved in response to technological change. We've had a long tradition of this sort of change ever since the Industrial Revolution. We are standing on the threshold of a similar technological shift, and our legal system is likely to change yet again.

TL;DR: If the algo’s picking winners, trust erodes for everyone. It’s time we stop whispering about it and say it out loud. Something weird is happening on Farcaster, and it’s time we talk about it openly. This isn’t just “home feed doing home feed things.” It’s much deeper and more concerning. Some casts are skyrocketing with 10k+ views from accounts that have 1k followers. Meanwhile, longtime casters with 100k+ followers are seeing reach crater by 50%. The math doesn’t add up…unless somethi...

A zero-knowledge verifiable compute layer that enables computations to be performed off-chain and verified on any other chain or contract.

Did you know Pythagorean Musical Approach does not reflect a perfect geometric correspondence? Allow me to introduce you to Sonic Sacred Geometry and Precise Temperament Tuning, a tangible form of the divine blueprint of consciousness and energy.