Introducing BasePaint Mini
Open-source dApp client for BasePaint
dApps Graveyard
Maybe blockchain is forever, but the dApps die fast. This Halloween 2024, I’m opening the “dApps” I used in 2021. And it is really scary: Domain expired. Deployment suspended. Page not found. Service unavailable. Wait a minute. These were supposed to be dApps — decentralized apps. Apps that don’t depend on centralized entities, apps that are free (as in beer), free (as in speech) and censorship-resistant. Apps that make web3 The New Internet. These apps are all dead. OK, not all, but most of ...
dApps Graveyard
Maybe blockchain is forever, but the dApps die fast. This Halloween 2024, I’m opening the “dApps” I used in 2021. And it is really scary: Domain expired. Deployment suspended. Page not found. Service unavailable. Wait a minute. These were supposed to be dApps — decentralized apps. Apps that don’t depend on centralized entities, apps that are free (as in beer), free (as in speech) and censorship-resistant. Apps that make web3 The New Internet. These apps are all dead. OK, not all, but most of ...
The Graveyard of dApps
Maybe blockchain is forever, but the dApps die fast.
BasePaint
“This is the most fun I had onchain in a long time” — creators and users of BasePaint. Let me tell you a story about building BasePaint, a collaborative pixel art project that is unlike what you typically see in the crypto space. I’ve been writing this post for the last 100 days and did my best to make sure it’s not too boring. Buckle up and consider minting!BasePaintInspired by /r/Place & The Million Dollar HomepageI remember the first time I saw the source code for an NFT smart contract. My...
BasePaint
“This is the most fun I had onchain in a long time” — creators and users of BasePaint. Let me tell you a story about building BasePaint, a collaborative pixel art project that is unlike what you typically see in the crypto space. I’ve been writing this post for the last 100 days and did my best to make sure it’s not too boring. Buckle up and consider minting!BasePaintInspired by /r/Place & The Million Dollar HomepageI remember the first time I saw the source code for an NFT smart contract. My...
BasePaint
“This is the most fun I had onchain in a long time” — creators and users of BasePaint. Let me tell you a story about building BasePaint, a collaborative pixel art project that is unlike what you typically see in the crypto space. I’ve been writing this post for the last 100 days and did my best to make sure it’s not too boring. Buckle up and consider minting!BasePaintInspired by /r/Place & The Million Dollar HomepageI remember the first time I saw the source code for an NFT smart contract. My...
BasePaint
“This is the most fun I had onchain in a long time” — creators and users of BasePaint. Let me tell you a story about building BasePaint, a collaborative pixel art project that is unlike what you typically see in the crypto space. I’ve been writing this post for the last 100 days and did my best to make sure it’s not too boring. Buckle up and consider minting!BasePaintInspired by /r/Place & The Million Dollar HomepageI remember the first time I saw the source code for an NFT smart contract. My...
XO: Party vs Party
I built an on-chain game that can only be played by two DAOs. I can’t predict nor influence what will happen next, but it gives me insight into how DAO governance works (and how to make it better). Imagine a tic-tac-toe game on a very large field. To win, you must get 5 in a row, column, or diagonally before your opponent does. But there’s a twist: the players are PartyBid parties.Game state as of 2023-02-05This means each move you see on this board relies on the governance process. Someone m...
XO: Party vs Party
I built an on-chain game that can only be played by two DAOs. I can’t predict nor influence what will happen next, but it gives me insight into how DAO governance works (and how to make it better). Imagine a tic-tac-toe game on a very large field. To win, you must get 5 in a row, column, or diagonally before your opponent does. But there’s a twist: the players are PartyBid parties.Game state as of 2023-02-05This means each move you see on this board relies on the governance process. Someone m...
XO: Party vs Party
I built an on-chain game that can only be played by two DAOs. I can’t predict nor influence what will happen next, but it gives me insight into how DAO governance works (and how to make it better). Imagine a tic-tac-toe game on a very large field. To win, you must get 5 in a row, column, or diagonally before your opponent does. But there’s a twist: the players are PartyBid parties.Game state as of 2023-02-05This means each move you see on this board relies on the governance process. Someone m...
XO: Party vs Party
I built an on-chain game that can only be played by two DAOs. I can’t predict nor influence what will happen next, but it gives me insight into how DAO governance works (and how to make it better). Imagine a tic-tac-toe game on a very large field. To win, you must get 5 in a row, column, or diagonally before your opponent does. But there’s a twist: the players are PartyBid parties.Game state as of 2023-02-05This means each move you see on this board relies on the governance process. Someone m...
Zero to Governance
One day, cleaning up your garage, you discover an old hard drive. You plug it into your fancy new MacBook and start looking through the files. One of them makes your heart rate go up — it's an archive with your old Ethereal wallet.Level 1: WalletLedgerYou are a lucky owner of 1,000 ETH and you decide to start a crypto venture fund. Your plan is to invest in promising new projects by buying their tokens. Since you are a one-person fund, you keep all the assets inside a single hardware wal...
Zero to Governance
One day, cleaning up your garage, you discover an old hard drive. You plug it into your fancy new MacBook and start looking through the files. One of them makes your heart rate go up — it's an archive with your old Ethereal wallet.Level 1: WalletLedgerYou are a lucky owner of 1,000 ETH and you decide to start a crypto venture fund. Your plan is to invest in promising new projects by buying their tokens. Since you are a one-person fund, you keep all the assets inside a single hardware wal...
Zero to Governance
One day, cleaning up your garage, you discover an old hard drive. You plug it into your fancy new MacBook and start looking through the files. One of them makes your heart rate go up — it's an archive with your old Ethereal wallet.Level 1: WalletLedgerYou are a lucky owner of 1,000 ETH and you decide to start a crypto venture fund. Your plan is to invest in promising new projects by buying their tokens. Since you are a one-person fund, you keep all the assets inside a single hardware wal...
Zero to Governance
One day, cleaning up your garage, you discover an old hard drive. You plug it into your fancy new MacBook and start looking through the files. One of them makes your heart rate go up — it's an archive with your old Ethereal wallet.Level 1: WalletLedgerYou are a lucky owner of 1,000 ETH and you decide to start a crypto venture fund. Your plan is to invest in promising new projects by buying their tokens. Since you are a one-person fund, you keep all the assets inside a single hardware wal...
Season 01: NFT for early subscribers
w1nt3r.eth was born in 2021 during the NFT summer. While everyone around was chasing the hottest drops, I was captivated by the beauty of the underlying technology. Ethereum turned me from a crypto-skeptic to a big believer in the decentralized future. But most NFTs at the time didn’t use even 1% of what Ethereum can do. I kept digging deeper. Every project I work on tries to show the world what’s possible. Push the boundaries. Demonstrate the beauty and elegance of Ethereum. Runes are NFTs f...
Season 01: NFT for early subscribers
w1nt3r.eth was born in 2021 during the NFT summer. While everyone around was chasing the hottest drops, I was captivated by the beauty of the underlying technology. Ethereum turned me from a crypto-skeptic to a big believer in the decentralized future. But most NFTs at the time didn’t use even 1% of what Ethereum can do. I kept digging deeper. Every project I work on tries to show the world what’s possible. Push the boundaries. Demonstrate the beauty and elegance of Ethereum. Runes are NFTs f...
Runes of Ethereum
What if there was an NFT collection that can't be bought with money, but needs to be earned with skill and dedication? Here's a story about a project I had a ton of fun building. I hope I can share at least a small fraction of my excitement with you through this post!Every NFT collection on Ethereum is a smart contract. But the majority of NFT projects have a very simple way of getting the collection’s items: minting them for a fee. I thought it was very underwhelming, and set to ex...
Runes of Ethereum
What if there was an NFT collection that can't be bought with money, but needs to be earned with skill and dedication? Here's a story about a project I had a ton of fun building. I hope I can share at least a small fraction of my excitement with you through this post!Every NFT collection on Ethereum is a smart contract. But the majority of NFT projects have a very simple way of getting the collection’s items: minting them for a fee. I thought it was very underwhelming, and set to ex...
