Musings on crypto, creators, culture, and things in between
Towards Crypto Literacy
This post was originally published on Substack. Subscribe for updates.“While tools like Nansen and TokenTerminal increasingly make it easier to verify and assess “real” economic activity on the networks we deploy money into, data literacy has not risen in proportion. And it takes a while before the market picks up on the skills to do that.” —Joel JohnOver the last couple years, we saw a huge focus in crypto towards “onboarding” — bringing non-crypto natives into the space with their first wal...
Towards Crypto Literacy
This post was originally published on Substack. Subscribe for updates.“While tools like Nansen and TokenTerminal increasingly make it easier to verify and assess “real” economic activity on the networks we deploy money into, data literacy has not risen in proportion. And it takes a while before the market picks up on the skills to do that.” —Joel JohnOver the last couple years, we saw a huge focus in crypto towards “onboarding” — bringing non-crypto natives into the space with their first wal...
Talking to the Protocol
An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie FujiwaraHISTORY OF DIGITAL SOCIALIZINGTo date, every iteration of the Internet has been ushered in by a technology to help us better communicate. This began with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in 1988, and later in the 1990s, we saw the first major instant messaging platforms (ICQ, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo) all battle for market share. The early 2000s became a “gold rush” of sorts for instant messaging, with SMS becoming a global ...
Talking to the Protocol
An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie FujiwaraHISTORY OF DIGITAL SOCIALIZINGTo date, every iteration of the Internet has been ushered in by a technology to help us better communicate. This began with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in 1988, and later in the 1990s, we saw the first major instant messaging platforms (ICQ, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo) all battle for market share. The early 2000s became a “gold rush” of sorts for instant messaging, with SMS becoming a global ...
Why Digital Fashion Matters
“We’re in the midst of a technological revolution. We all know it, we talk about it, but we have to live it. The most difficult step is just to go for it.” – Helmut Lang, on being the first designer to unveil a collection on the Internet (1998)TL;DR: We at TCG Crypto are thrilled to be backing what we believe are two of the most innovative companies in digital fashion, DRAUP and Tribute Brand. We share our excitement for the space and outline our thesis on where we believe digital fashion is ...
Why Digital Fashion Matters
“We’re in the midst of a technological revolution. We all know it, we talk about it, but we have to live it. The most difficult step is just to go for it.” – Helmut Lang, on being the first designer to unveil a collection on the Internet (1998)TL;DR: We at TCG Crypto are thrilled to be backing what we believe are two of the most innovative companies in digital fashion, DRAUP and Tribute Brand. We share our excitement for the space and outline our thesis on where we believe digital fashion is ...
Stop Calling it a Wallet
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet” — Juliet, about Romeo (Shakespeare)According to the hypothesis of linguistic relativity, the way people think of the world is influenced directly by the language people use to talk about it. Language shapes our thoughts; it changes the way we think.ArrivalMy favorite example of linguistic relativity is in the movie Arrival, where (spoiler alert!) linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with working with...
Stop Calling it a Wallet
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet” — Juliet, about Romeo (Shakespeare)According to the hypothesis of linguistic relativity, the way people think of the world is influenced directly by the language people use to talk about it. Language shapes our thoughts; it changes the way we think.ArrivalMy favorite example of linguistic relativity is in the movie Arrival, where (spoiler alert!) linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with working with...
Web3's Mobile Moment
In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking at how the unprecedented scale of mobile was beginning to change the Internet and the economy at large. At the time, 56% of American adults owned a smartphone (compare that to over 85% today). It was impossible to imagine what was to come in the next decade; as I wrote in an earlier piece, technological innovations often emerge when it seems we need them least. Evans’ thinking was prescient. He ...
Web3's Mobile Moment
In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking at how the unprecedented scale of mobile was beginning to change the Internet and the economy at large. At the time, 56% of American adults owned a smartphone (compare that to over 85% today). It was impossible to imagine what was to come in the next decade; as I wrote in an earlier piece, technological innovations often emerge when it seems we need them least. Evans’ thinking was prescient. He ...
