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2/50
August 19th, 2022
I increasingly find myself in conversations with business types who have come across my story (i.e. high-achiever who feels nothing — and deeply judges herself for it — so wants more and finds herself on a journey to follow her passion) and felt compelled to reach out — because they feel the same, and they thought they were the only one.
1/500
August 19th, 2022
After weeks of testing and two surgeries (IV port placement and biopsy), I was diagnosed with stage two lymphoma. The treatment is chemotherapy — every other week for the next six months. I have a very good prognosis. I feel very blessed and ready to continue this journey.
Creator-Community Memberships: From Web2 to Web3
1/500
August 10th, 2022
By Catherine Yeo, Author of The Creator Revolution
8/100
April 26th, 2022
We have had the great pleasure to be working with OpenAI InPaint and DALL·E 1 for many months, and thought it would be constructive to document some techniques, ideas and reflections that have been raised through exploring these remarkable tools in honor of the announcement and warranted public excitement around DALL·E 2.
6/500
August 6th, 2022
Likes are the backbone of web2 social media. Often expressed as a heart, they’ve taken on meanings of their own. They’re as much ammo as they are currency—invoking support as much as they do jealousy or a cold shoulder. More recently, a like has come to mean about as much as “lol” entails actual laughter. No one’s really laughing out loud. With so many opportunities to like something (see Kyle Chayka’s Like Inflation), the gesture has pretty much lost its significance altogether.
QR Code: An Underestimated Danger
1/500
August 8th, 2022
It would seem, what danger can a QR code pose? It turns out that you can even lose your cryptocurrency as well as fiat money and internet logins!
Building Market Microstructure for NFTs
1/500
August 7th, 2022
I’ve recently been exploring the evolving market microstructure around NFTs, and a recent discussion on the merits of platforms like Sudoswap has highlighted some of the inherent tension between the current NFT audience and the future of the asset class. There is a massive wave of platforms coming that bring more robust market structure oriented towards traders to NFTs, and soon, other esoteric assets. The evolution of NFT market structure provides a helpful understanding of where all markets are trending, over time, as a result of technology innovation and new models for financialization.
2/100
June 10th, 2022
Web3 offers a general-purpose way to represent ownership of data, assets, and certificates that maintain their authenticity, history, and ownership state across the web.
2/1000
August 1st, 2022
As a builder in the crypto/web3 space, sometimes it feels like you’re building against the current because there are strong ideological components to what we build.
zkSNARKs vs zkSTARKs: a primer
47/100
January 18th, 2022
Trying out a longer form article this time to allow a deeper dive into some areas of blockchain research. There are a lot of articles on zero knowledge proofs, and a lot of research papers on SNARKs or STARKs, but very little bridging the intermediate gap.
3 simple Steps to Prize Savings on Optimism
20/250
July 5th, 2022
Since its launch in 2019, PoolTogether’s premise remains strong but simple. PoolTogether is:
What We Can Learn from Decentralized Community Building
3/200
July 21st, 2022
Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed a meteoric rise in the power of decentralized community-building. In a crypto-native, ownership-first era, users are opting to spend their time in digital places that offer not just a better user experience, but more autonomy and influence, more economic incentives, more connection, and ultimately, more fun.
2/100
July 19th, 2022
One of the concepts thrown around in web3 is “token-gating” content. Like many things in web3, it seems to be taken for granted that it is a good idea, but I’m not sure I agree. Token-gating when it comes to content doesn’t seem functionally different than having a paywall. This post is a few of my thoughts on the topic through the lens of writing on the internet.
Averting Cambridge Analytica in the Metaverse: Identity, Privacy, Interoperability & Agency in Emerging Digital Worlds
7/1000
July 6th, 2022
Identity, Privacy, Interoperability & Agency in Emerging Digital Worlds
Lil Nouns: Everything you need to know
5/169
July 15th, 2022
Before starting I recommend you to be familiarized with the concepts of cryptocurrencies, NFTs and DAOs.
2/100
July 4th, 2022
When I first started paying attention to crypto, one of the first things I kept asking questions about was why I should care about decentralization. As I’ve gained conviction and knowledge, I wanted to write an easy-to-understand piece as a resource for all my crypto curious but skeptical friends <3.
2/150
July 1st, 2022
On June 23rd, 2022 I was given a tentative diagnosis of lymphoma. I received the call in the morning while walking to get my morning coffee, oat cortado is usually my choice. I had gone to see the doctor a few days before for a strange pain near my liver. The doctor told me that she looked up the CT scans, and unfortunately, it looked like it was lymphoma. I sat down on the concrete steps in front of a stranger's home and received the news, as the call went on I began to cry more and more.
Web3 Use Cases: Today
16/250
June 23rd, 2022
Crashes aren’t only painful because of price declines, although it’s never fun to see your account balances slashed relentlessly, day after day. Crashes are also painful because belief drains from the market as quickly as cash does. And those who never believed in the first place rush in to fill the void with a chorus of schadenfreude-laced I told you so’s.
Bear Eat Moloch
26/100
June 23rd, 2022
From her DM to me:
D(AA)Os
1/100
June 25th, 2022
The last time I had a sip of alcohol was 2,290 days ago on March 20th, 2016. Closing in on six and a half years sober. It’s one of my proudest accomplishments, although the last 3 months have been some of the most trying on my sobriety.
Multiplayer Media
10/100
May 24th, 2022
Toward massive, collaborative, headless art.
1/100
June 7th, 2022
New York Senator Gillibrand and Wyoming Senator Lummis have teamed up to propose a bi-partisan bill that would shift much of the regulatory oversight of crypto assets from the SEC to the CFTC, acknowledging that these tokens are much more like commodities than securities.
1/99
May 30th, 2022
Quadratic voting is a method of collective voting which dictates the strength of a voter's feeling, depending on how many votes they allocate to a choice. It differs from the single-choice of voting; instead, you have x amount of votes to give out.
DAOs as novelty search engines
2/1000
April 15th, 2022
DAOs are collaborative networks which are likely to have a unique role in the future. To determine this role, you need to be able to look beyond what is happening today. Like a toddler taking its first steps, the DAOs of today are immature, unsteady and likely to stumble.
A Theory of Justice for Web3
5/200
May 23rd, 2022
One of the most powerful narratives surrounding web3 is that it is a movement toward a better, fairer internet.
15/100
May 24th, 2022
By Li Jin, Geoff Hamilton, Jesse Walden, Spencer Noon, Derek Walkush and Medha Kothari
Designing Token Economies
13/250
May 25th, 2022
Good token design, like good product design, starts with understanding what users want.
驶向平滑空间：从老庄和兰波到加密大航海时代
11/10000
October 16th, 2021
Web3 时代，Collab.land 等工具让 Discord 成为人们在线上的聚集空间，许多 ideas 诞生于此，历经不断优化升级，奔赴更广阔的加密世界，甚至扩展到圈外。
9/420
May 17th, 2022
Preface: Usually, for my blog posts, I just write stream-of-consciousness rambles, and don’t even bother proofreading. This is different - this is the first time I actually put in some effort. Why? To celebrate Mirror launching Writing NFTs on Optimism. I have no idea why anyone would buy NFTs for this post, but if you do: 100% of the proceeds will be directed straight to the Gitcoin multi-sig for public goods funding. I’d love to hear feedback - should I repeat this for my older posts, and future posts?
2/10000
May 25th, 2022
The following essay is a homage to collecting enabled by web3. It is a living document, minted as a collectible Writing NFT. By collecting it, you encourage me to keep refining and elaborating these views, which will be updated here.
Culture in Progress: Building On-Chain Social Capital
2/500
December 1st, 2021
Crypto, Culture, and Society members recently joined a session by web3 polymath Ameer Carter, aka Sirsu, to explore how social capital operates. Using real-world models of collective action and examples of web3 projects that bridge the gaps between social, cultural, and economic capital, he advanced a compelling argument for using blockchain technologies toward attribution of creative works to their creators. Below is a recap and response from our community.
8/500
April 20th, 2021
"Come for the tool, stay for the network" is a classic strategy for bootstrapping social networks. It aimed to solve a hard problem: how do you convince people to join your social network when there's nobody else to socialize with?
Introducing the Optimism Collective
1106/∞
April 26th, 2022
It's time for a new chapter.
Scaling the technology alone is not enough. We have a duty to scale our values along with our networks.
In pursuit of this mission, we are excited to announce the Optimism Collective.