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wisdom of the dao

Building an MCP Server to Draft Emails with Claude

I've procrastinated on writing a few simple emails for several days; you know, a maintenance request to my landlord, a question for my insurance provider. Instead of wasting mental energy writing them, I wanted to see if I could automate the process. I could copy and paste Claude's responses into Gmail, but... that still has a bit of needless friction, too. I'd heard of MCP servers but had never used one, so I decided to give it a try. Within an hour, I built a custom MCP server that lets Cla...

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China Stacks Gold, U.S. Adds 127k BTC to Reserves — The Next Bitcoin Cycle and the New Global Asset War.

Global Financial Strategies DivergeSince 2024,the global financial landscape has been shifting in unprecedented ways. On one side, China has been aggressively accumulating gold, purchasing the precious metal for 17 consecutive months. On the other, the United States and its largest institutions have been quietly and massively accumulating Bitcoin.The Battle for the Future Reserve AssetThe world’s two largest economic powers are now competing not just in technology and trade,but in a race to d...

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Brandon Donnelly

The Pacific Palisades doesn't want duplexes and smaller lots

So, here's what's happening in the Pacific Palisades right now:A pro-development organization has sued Gov. Gavin Newsom over an executive order blocking duplexes in Los Angeles neighborhoods stricken by January’s wildfires.Newsom issued his order in July in response to lobbying from property owners in the Pacific Palisades, the coastal L.A. community that was largely destroyed in the blazes. Palisades residents argued that allowing duplexes and spitting [sic] lots into two parcels would unde...

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SEC Allows DTCC To Tokenize Securities

Depository Trust Company (DTC) is allowed to launch a new tokenization service for real-world assets.

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This Week on Base

This Week on Base: Jobs across the ecosystem, a Sundance premiere, Zora's origin, and so much more

The Base Job Network is live Looking to work in the onchain economy? The Base Ecosystem Job Network is now live, featuring open roles from teams building across Base. Whether you’re an engineer, designer, or community lead, now there’s one place to start your search. Base @base Want to help build the global economy on Base? The Base Ecosystem Job Network is live with roles from teams across the ecosystem, powered by @hirechain_io Start your search: base.hirechain.io 968 12:01 PM • Dec 11, 202...

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Coop Records Wrapped - 2025 Recap

2025 is coming to a close and we shared a quick overview on some key stats from last year. Before we do - we announced the Midnight Diner Tokyo Pass - an exclusive access pass to our new event series in Tokyo starting in April in partnership with Soneium. Coop 💿 @Cooopahtroopa Coop Recs Wrapped We paid out ~$350k to 250 artists this year That was across 450 releases - 44 of which graduated to songcoins Learned a ton and realized that while getting artists paid is cool - our next chapter is i...

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ENS DAO Newsletter

Five Bullet Friday

Public Goods Working Group publishes annual report. DAO retrospective passes with a 59.9% approval rate. Clowes.eth publishes proposal to restructure DAO ops.NounsDAO names their core contract addresses. Unruggable introduces "Known Resolver" registry. ensdao.eth @ENS_DAO ⌐◨-◨ Enscribe @enscribe_ So @nounsdao has given its contract ecosystem a major UX upgrade... @ensdomains names for every core contract, powered by @enscribe_ and supported by @ens_dao contract naming season! No more guessing...

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BuildBetter by BFG

The Most Underrated Frameworks in Startup Building - BMC and LC

Every business, product idea, or internal corporate initiative becomes sharper the moment you force it onto a single page. Clarity is expensive and painful. That’s why tools like the Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas matter — not because they’re trendy, but because they expose blind spots fast(er)...

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Trust Me Bro Show

The 10 Biggest AI Stories of 2025

2025 was the year AI stopped being a science project and became infrastructure. Reasoning models replaced chatbots. Agents moved from helpers to operators. AI left the lab and entered factories, offices, and national policy. Hype cooled, but real deployment exploded. Enterprises demanded ROI. Governments treated compute like energy. China proved efficiency beats brute force. Here are the 10 moves that actually defined AI in 2025.

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BizarreBeasts ($BB)

BizarreBeasts Collabs with $HUNT: Adding a BIZARRE Layer to the Co-Op!

The BizarreBeasts universe is all about expansion and finding new ways to connect the $BB community to the overall project’s growth. This BIZARRE integration with Hunt.town is a powerful new layer that leverages their decentralized, collaborative ecosystem for our BIZARRE future.Hunt.town has successfully transitioned from its older "Clap" program to the new Co-Op model, a system where projects are directly supported by backers, and builders are co-promoted by the ecosystem. This model, which...

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Am I scared? Yes. Will it stop me? No.

Read this if your fear is loud.

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Brandon Donnelly

The hardest part about writing a daily blog

The hardest thing about writing a daily blog is not the actual writing part; it’s coming up with a new topic every single day. I’m often asked, “How long does it take you to write your posts?” And the truthful answer is that it varies greatly. Part of this variability, of course, has to do with the length and depth of each post, but another big part of the variability is that I have to first land on a topic. The usual criteria are that I’m looking for something that is roughly aligned with th...

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Unmediated Thoughts

How Capitalism Replaced America

Recently, I’ve been going down a rabbit hole studying contemporary China, its industrial modernization, and the Mandarin language. As part of that, I recently read a popular new book on the Middle Kingdom, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang. The book is a breezy personal reflection, and advances a now-familiar thesis: American elites are disproportionately trained as lawyers, Chinese elites are mostly engineers, and that background shapes the way that they respond to ...

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FOCIL Declined For Glamsterdam

Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) was declined inclusion Glamsterdam, but will be considered in Heka.

Why the Federal Reserve will cut rates?

Why the Federal Reserve will cut rates?

The K-Shaped Recovery, The Wealth Effect, and The Federal Reserve's Next MoveListen to this episode from Accidentally Defi on Spotify. The "Vibe" of Economics: Macroeconomics is often treated as high-minded math, but it is rooted in public sentiment.https://spotify.comMarvin Gaye’s What’s Going On When I developed a more advanced understanding of monetary & fiscal policy, I got into vinyl records at around the same time. One day as my coproducer & I had many of the famed conversations which l...

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Kaloh's Newsletter

Onchain Five: Aerodrome Emissions, Farcaster has been Missunderstood, Noice Cap Table Feature, Zora + Solana and Tempo Testnet

Hi there! Welcome to the first edition of Onchain Five (a new weekly format). These are five things that caught my eye across the onchain and crypto world this week.1. Aerodrome ve(3,3) Emission SystemKicking off the first Onchain Five is Aerodrome, a protocol that has quickly become a core part of the Base ecosystem. It’s shipping fast across liquidity and swap infrastructure, but for this piece I went deep into how its ve(3,3) emissions system works and why it matters. Below is a short over...

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Hello, World: Proof of Human Comes to Messaging

Every major messaging system still assumes you can trust a username, a voice, or a video. AI has made that assumption obsolete. Today, that changes. World has integrated XMTP to create World Chat, the first messaging network built on proof of human and decentralized, quantum-resistant encryption. For the first time, you can know, with cryptographic certainty, that the person you’re chatting with is real. Verified humans, messaging freely and safely, anywhere on earth.