24 Oct 2024
One of Farcaster’s key properties, which I've written about before, is its composability. Anyone can build applications on top of it without needing permission. Another important property is that it pairs each username with a crypto wallet. Every user that signs up to Farcaster has a wallet....
10 Oct 2024
DAOs have promised a new type of Internet-native organisation that allows people from anywhere in the world, with just an Internet connection and a computer, to join and contribute to. In an age where everything is online, there is an opportunity to create a new type of organisation that isn’...
25 Sep 2024
I just got back to London after spending a little over a week in Singapore. Although I’d visited once almost 20 years ago when I was a child, I didn’t remember much, so this trip felt like my first time there. It’s a city that has left...
03 Sep 2024
Most major waves in information technology have been centred in the U.S. Breakthroughs in the internet, cloud computing, mobile, and AI, along with the influential companies that emerged from these developments, largely originated there. Crypto breaks that pattern. Entrepreneurial activity is not as concentrated in the US but is...
14 Aug 2024
DeFi is evolving from a set of financial toys into a sustainable financial system. In an industry like crypto, where new and shiny narratives tend to get prioritised over existing ones, this evolution can go unnoticed. However, in my opinion, it’s one of the most important and perhaps underrated...
