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An interesting new memecoin experiment is playing out in real time on the Solana blockchain.

Welcome to today’s edition of Slide Rule Pass, your concise daily digest of the latest transfer news from across European football.

Melbourne, Australia, offers a civic parable: a city that doubled its urban tree canopy to preemptively adapt to extreme heat. They didn’t just plant more trees—they redesigned their protocols: how they identified, protected, and stewarded urban forests. And they did so through visionary municipal leadership, supported by policy integration, data systems, and public affection. Their 2012 Urban Forest Strategy aimed to increase canopy from 22% to 40% by 2040, reduce urban heat, increase biodiv...

What a BIZARRE ride June was! As the first full month of BIZARRE Summer, it delivered an intense whirlwind of BEASTLY onchain action, massive treasury injections, game-changing launches, and an explosion of $BEAST community power. We’re not just building; we’re unleashing a full-throttle BIZARREBEASTS ($BB) Empire! From record-breaking distributions to new art, game milestones, and strategic collaborations, June proved that the $BB universe is expanding at an exponential, BIZARRE pace. Let's ...

Below is a roll-up of all the BizarreBeasts artwork dropped across Rodeo, Highlight, Manifold, Hypersub, AND the BizarreBeasts ($BB) Miniapp, and all the BizarreBeasts blog posts published on Paragraph in June.Artwork Dropped Onchain Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT Collect NFT...

Uber's stock has done exceptionally well this year. At the time of writing this post, it's up over 60% year-to-date. But at the same time, it remains unclear to me what the relationship will be between Uber and this brave new world of autonomous vehicles. I mean, right now, if you're in Phoenix, I'm told you can order a Waymo car through Uber's app. But if you're in San Francisco, Waymo customers must use the Waymo app. It's all bit mirky right now, but Uber is just trying to put "as many car...

these are practical frameworks I collected over 20 years of building and selling products and services. At the right moment, they can transform how you approach product development, marketing, or UX design. They can get you unstuck or just inspired to try something new...

There is a world behind the world. You feel it when the plan falls apart—not from incompetence, but from irrelevance. When the map no longer matches the terrain. When the protocol you so carefully built begins to collapse under the shifting weight of history. That is the domain of the Ekumen Exchange. ✹ Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle, the Ekumen Exchange is not a conference, nor a commission. It is a peer-to-peer ritual of inter-world communication, modeled after the fictional ...

In a digital world where creators often feel at the mercy of algorithms and platform policies, a new wave of social networks is emerging, giving users more power. Farcaster, a decentralized social platform designed for the next era of the internet, is generating buzz among creatives and content creators who seek more control over their work and their audiences. But is it worth your attention? In this article, we’ll unpack what Farcaster is, how it’s different, and why it might just be the cre...

The company has accumulated a treasury of 100,603 ETH, pivoting its corporate treasury from Bitcoin to Ethereum.

The idea of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, or DePIN, is capturing the imagination of people both inside and outside the Web3 ecosystem. It taps into a long standing frustration with how our infrastructure systems are built and maintained, and offers a radically different vision. What if critical infrastructure such as wireless connectivity, energy generation, compute power, environmental sensors, and transportation data could be owned and operated by the people who use it, ra...

Welcome to 29 Seconds of Farcaster, a quick recap of what you missed on Farcaster over the weekend, delivered to your inbox, every Monday. Brought to you in collaboration between @bradq and the GM Farcaster Network. What did you miss this weekend? 29 Seconds of Farcaster ... what did you miss this weekend? Surely the lead story is @katekornish & the delivery of the bassoon to Ofentse w/ the corresponding s/o to Farcaster & the 165 people that believe in her! In the bullish on Farcaster world,...

Crypto founders often think “control = bad” but don’t exactly know how to reason about it. I think the better framing of control is that it’s a spectrum.

This blog is co-authored with Zoe Weinberg and Matt Hawes at ex/ante and can also be found here. Who will own our digital memory? This question has become increasingly urgent as ChatGPT and Claude ask us to entrust more and more of our memories to their platforms. Frontier AI models have already ingested the world's public knowledge, but their advancements may slow down as we approach a compute ceiling. Additional performance gains will require them to adapt to the user’s context, which calls...

Arsenal Closing In on Viktor GyökeresArsenal are pushing to finalise a deal for Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyökeres, though a small gap in valuation remains.

In our continued collaboration with Ontology, we shift our lens away from onchain gaming and toward one of the most technically promising—and frequently misunderstood—layers of Web3 tech: zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP).

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 ...

Bedrock is a publication about the future of the onchain economy. Each week, we'll explore the builders and ideas at the frontier, paving the way for a digital world that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom.

Neat B and I just booked some end-of-the-summer travel. We're going to bounce around to a few different places, but the plan is to end up in Paris and then spend a week there working remotely — you know, from the Paris office. And by the Paris office, I mean a generous 323 sf aparthotel with a small kitchen, workspace, and shared laundry facility that we rented in the 10th. I started by searching diligently for an Airbnb; but I couldn't find anything we liked, so I ended booking something thr...

I hate when I see someone in an anime tee when I’m out and I’m not wearing one Has high fashion gotta so big that it can’t afford to take real risks anymore? Enshittification is the funniest term because it literally means “will become more shitty” While doing next to no storytelling, BAPE has really been on their shit with clothing the last few years “The A students end up working for the C students” feels so true in crypto