There’s one fact that explains everything worth paying attention to in crypto:
Tokens coordinate scarce resources under adversarial conditions.
That’s the whole game. Everything else is just different substrates running the same pattern.
Folders are floppy-disk relics. Now every doc, commit or chat is a node in a graph that ignores silos—edges link Slack → Drive → GitHub. We retrieve by relationships, not paths: open = query, edit = change context. The filesystem is dead; long live the knowledge graph.
Here's one I just decided to publicly release today. Me with Ivo Perelman, Reggie Workman, and Andrew Cyrille. Some of my heroes!
Fully improvised with no prior discussion.
https://youtu.be/5ENflh-5jQs
Would be amazing to get everyone here attending to EthDenver to talk to @probablyfrens about their interests to create some serendipitous connections IRL. The more people DM the bot, the better the network.
Technology choice for developers is a fashion choice. (Even superior) unfashionable tech loses. Fashionable tech wins.
It’s annoying but has been true for at least the past 30 years.
If you’re still wondering if meme coins can be a meaningfully consequential, consider that in the United States we have twice elected a meme president and now we have meme cabinet members and an entirely new meme department called DOGE.
If a meme can run the United States, a meme can be a currency.
What if, instead of robots.txt, each site, app, or even web page could have its own ETL pipeline into a global decentralized (but composable) index of indices?
I’ve been thinking about the idea of turning more abstract concepts into tokenized assets that can freely plug into DeFi. For example, imagine decomposing complex positions into multiple risk tranches, each packaged as its own ERC token, or creating sentiment index tokens that reflect real-time market mood. Once you can treat these intangible concepts like any other token, you can lend against them, trade them, and generally make them first-class citizens in the ecosystem.
Has anyone seen projects already pushing in this direction? Are there teams exploring tokenizing volatility, risk factors, prediction market sentiment, or anything along these lines? I’d love to discover examples and learn more about the tools or standards out there. Any pointers or experiences are welcome.
I bought this on cassette in 1991 and literally wore it out. I then bought it again and again. What an incredible rhythm section.
Dexter's ability to just go and go in stream of consciousness was such an inspiration. Despite being very "inside" I think listening to these extended improvisations helped lead me to free/avant-garde music. Still grounded in this stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iETvzeK1nPA
