
What Makes a Strong PFP in 2025
A fraction of NFT Collections have survived the winter. What can we learn from them?

What Makes a Strong PFP in 2025
A fraction of NFT Collections have survived the winter. What can we learn from them?

Lore NFTs: Redefining Community-Driven Storytelling in the NFT Landscape
Since the rise of NFT projects in 2021, a category of projects has emerged that explores storytelling across different mediums. These projects have built comics, animation, video games, film, and written stories. While they have previously been referred to as storytelling NFTs, in this article, we will explore the case for a new way to categorize them and explain why it is useful and necessary.Introducing: Lore NFTsWhat do all of these projects across various mediums have in common? They are ...

Lore NFTs: Redefining Community-Driven Storytelling in the NFT Landscape
Since the rise of NFT projects in 2021, a category of projects has emerged that explores storytelling across different mediums. These projects have built comics, animation, video games, film, and written stories. While they have previously been referred to as storytelling NFTs, in this article, we will explore the case for a new way to categorize them and explain why it is useful and necessary.Introducing: Lore NFTsWhat do all of these projects across various mediums have in common? They are ...

Web3 for Good: Blockchain Use Cases for Scaling Impact
In the last handful of years, a movement have started in web3 that focuses on how we can use this technology in order to help scale impact. Much has been written about Regenerative Finance, or ReFi, and in this short piece, we will take a quick look at how blockchain has already started to become an amazing tool to transform how we can build impact driven projects.FundingWeb3 introduces novel mechanisms for value transfer across the Internet, making transactions of money (in the form of crypt...

Web3 for Good: Blockchain Use Cases for Scaling Impact
In the last handful of years, a movement have started in web3 that focuses on how we can use this technology in order to help scale impact. Much has been written about Regenerative Finance, or ReFi, and in this short piece, we will take a quick look at how blockchain has already started to become an amazing tool to transform how we can build impact driven projects.FundingWeb3 introduces novel mechanisms for value transfer across the Internet, making transactions of money (in the form of crypt...

Journey of a Regen Guardian
Three weeks ago, I published my first entry on my Regen Newsletter called “Becoming a Web3 Regenerative Instigator”. It was about my idea of shaping my career as a Web3 Regenerative Instigator, which is a fancy way to say that I want to focus on helping impact driven projects being built with web3 technologies, specifically NFTs and DAOs. This is an update on that Journey. https://paragraph.xyz/@luisotravez/becoming-a-web3-regenerative-instigatorChoosing Celo as my HQMy path forward is alread...

Journey of a Regen Guardian
Three weeks ago, I published my first entry on my Regen Newsletter called “Becoming a Web3 Regenerative Instigator”. It was about my idea of shaping my career as a Web3 Regenerative Instigator, which is a fancy way to say that I want to focus on helping impact driven projects being built with web3 technologies, specifically NFTs and DAOs. This is an update on that Journey. https://paragraph.xyz/@luisotravez/becoming-a-web3-regenerative-instigatorChoosing Celo as my HQMy path forward is alread...
Foundations of a Decentralized University
Education remains as one of the largest problems LATAM faces. Especially when talking about specialized education. Web3 is a rapidly emerging technology, enabling disruption across industries just as it's predecessor, Web 2.0, did. If LatAm arrived late to the party with only a handful of successful Internet companies in the first 20 years of this century, we cannot allow that to happen again with this new technological shift. So a question arises: How might we build the educational infr...
Foundations of a Decentralized University
Education remains as one of the largest problems LATAM faces. Especially when talking about specialized education. Web3 is a rapidly emerging technology, enabling disruption across industries just as it's predecessor, Web 2.0, did. If LatAm arrived late to the party with only a handful of successful Internet companies in the first 20 years of this century, we cannot allow that to happen again with this new technological shift. So a question arises: How might we build the educational infr...
Becoming a Web3 Regenerative Instigator
Becoming a Web3 Regenerative Instigator

How Fiction can influence the creators and builders of tomorrow
Three stories have stuck with me for years about the impact fictional stories can have. They are about NASA, drunk engineers, and accesible prothestics.NASA and Comic Books in the 30sIn the 60s, as the space race got more competitive, NASA was recruiting engineers by the dozens. The ads they used said: "We're going to the moon, Want to come along?" As James Donovan describes in his book Shoot for the moon, there was a shortage of engineers on the US, as missile, aircraft and electronic c...

How Fiction can influence the creators and builders of tomorrow
Three stories have stuck with me for years about the impact fictional stories can have. They are about NASA, drunk engineers, and accesible prothestics.NASA and Comic Books in the 30sIn the 60s, as the space race got more competitive, NASA was recruiting engineers by the dozens. The ads they used said: "We're going to the moon, Want to come along?" As James Donovan describes in his book Shoot for the moon, there was a shortage of engineers on the US, as missile, aircraft and electronic c...