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Grants Program Playbook

First things first, big shoutout to Lisa who collaborated on this post with me and to Christina from Aave, who shared her experience and lessons learned from launching the Lens Grants Program. Much has been written about the importance of community in web3. A protocol community can support and accelerate decentralized protocol development, integrations, commercialization, user education, or globalization. As they’re forming, communities often need guidance from the protocol core teams to be m...

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Aug 30

Semi Mid Year Learnings

some of them are serious, some of them are silly. all of them are valuable. not ordered in any special way. learned = relearned = sharpened = blahWhen you’re overthinking = write. When you’re anxious = walk. When you’re tired = sleep. When you’re sad = moveHaving a different location to work from vs. live from is a game changerThe key to working through lulls is to keep moving. Get up, get out, go out. I like to end my day at the parkSomeone finally/unironically called me “Sir/Ser” on CT, tha...

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Shifts in Product Dynamics

There’s been some clear shifts in how product is being built in web3 since the onset of the bear market.Velocity is the new constant: We're not just moving quickly, we're at lightspeed. The pace of what is getting built in the space is a constant change of new technologies & UX patterns (eg. bridging directly into Base on Friendtech, AA/MPC, zkEVMs, etc). Interestingly the platforms where the discourse is taking place is highly fragmented this cycle, especially given the onset of al...