Written by Katie Chiou Communities and cultures are nourished by rich context. Historically, context was a natural product of communities that were local and physically constrained. The internet ushered in a Cambrian explosion of connection, allowing us to find each other while thousands of miles apart. People began forming communities around factors beyond location, such as personal interests and ideologies. In some ways, the internet felt like the only venue where one could fully and freely...

Written by Katie Chiou Communities and cultures are nourished by rich context. Historically, context was a natural product of communities that were local and physically constrained. The internet ushered in a Cambrian explosion of connection, allowing us to find each other while thousands of miles apart. People began forming communities around factors beyond location, such as personal interests and ideologies. In some ways, the internet felt like the only venue where one could fully and freely...

Written by Katie Chiou Gaming has always operated at the absolute cutting edge of technology. The earliest video games (think Pong, Space Invaders, Doom, Quake) were deceptively simple, but pushed the limits of early computer graphics and network capabilities—eventually birthing companies like NVIDIA, which would go on to revolutionize not only the gaming industry, but technology entirely. Gaming continues to be a meaningful playground for frontier technologies today, from AI/ML to blockchain...

Written by Katie Chiou Gaming has always operated at the absolute cutting edge of technology. The earliest video games (think Pong, Space Invaders, Doom, Quake) were deceptively simple, but pushed the limits of early computer graphics and network capabilities—eventually birthing companies like NVIDIA, which would go on to revolutionize not only the gaming industry, but technology entirely. Gaming continues to be a meaningful playground for frontier technologies today, from AI/ML to blockchain...

Written by Katie Chiou, Graeme Boy The word that best sums up consumer technology in the 2010s is gamification. In retrospect, this makes sense, given where technology was at the time. We were entering the mobile and the social eras simultaneously, where everyone essentially now had a connected, networked game device in their pocket at all times. The early gamification trend ushered in a wave of companies that sought to make games out of normally mundane activities and transform them into boo...

Written by Katie Chiou, Graeme Boy The word that best sums up consumer technology in the 2010s is gamification. In retrospect, this makes sense, given where technology was at the time. We were entering the mobile and the social eras simultaneously, where everyone essentially now had a connected, networked game device in their pocket at all times. The early gamification trend ushered in a wave of companies that sought to make games out of normally mundane activities and transform them into boo...

Written by Katie Chiou, Benjamin Funk We’ve seen a lot of lively discussion (and sometimes confusion) aroundWhat a sequencer actually does–is it building blocks? Is it proposing blocks? both?How does MEV look different on L2s?What are intents, preferences, and meta-transactions? Why do they matter? Jon Charbonneau 🇺🇸 @jon_charb Idk what “sequencing” means and at this point in too afraid to ask 120 3:08 PM • Apr 28, 2023 We want to provide an overview of what answers we have to these questio...

Written by Katie Chiou, Benjamin Funk We’ve seen a lot of lively discussion (and sometimes confusion) aroundWhat a sequencer actually does–is it building blocks? Is it proposing blocks? both?How does MEV look different on L2s?What are intents, preferences, and meta-transactions? Why do they matter? Jon Charbonneau 🇺🇸 @jon_charb Idk what “sequencing” means and at this point in too afraid to ask 120 3:08 PM • Apr 28, 2023 We want to provide an overview of what answers we have to these questio...

Written by Danny SursockPlatform Shift, Meet Platform Shift…The world is shaped by periods in which extraordinary upheavals in technology or infrastructure coincide, unleashing a generational step function in innovation. Think telegraphs and railroads, fiber-optic cables and the internet, or mobile phones and 3G. Our belief is that the intersection of two groundbreaking frontiers – Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchains – represents a similarly transformative moment. Three important pil...

Written by Danny SursockPlatform Shift, Meet Platform Shift…The world is shaped by periods in which extraordinary upheavals in technology or infrastructure coincide, unleashing a generational step function in innovation. Think telegraphs and railroads, fiber-optic cables and the internet, or mobile phones and 3G. Our belief is that the intersection of two groundbreaking frontiers – Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchains – represents a similarly transformative moment. Three important pil...

Written by Benjamin Funk This article builds off of the previous MEV & The Evolution of Crypto Exchanges: Part I. While I recommend first reading through Part I if you haven’t yet, here’s a quick recap in case you’re short on time (or just want to ape into Part II). Part I Recap & Reflections Part I laid out the critical challenges and tradeoffs between between order matching systems in crypto today, including:Limitations of futuristic AMMsRFQs vs order books from a market microstructure pers...

Written by Benjamin Funk This article builds off of the previous MEV & The Evolution of Crypto Exchanges: Part I. While I recommend first reading through Part I if you haven’t yet, here’s a quick recap in case you’re short on time (or just want to ape into Part II). Part I Recap & Reflections Part I laid out the critical challenges and tradeoffs between between order matching systems in crypto today, including:Limitations of futuristic AMMsRFQs vs order books from a market microstructure pers...

Written by Nick Pai | Originally posted on HackMD Architects are wise to respect the environment on top of which they will build. Smart contract developers who build on Ethereum should similarly iterate on dApp architecture as the blockchain changes.Design for extreme temperaturesDesign for rising water levelsA proposal for how to design dApps that will scale with the rollup-centric future of Ethereum.Ethereum, the most prominent decentralized blockchain, gifted computer programmers a new pri...

Written by Nick Pai | Originally posted on HackMD Architects are wise to respect the environment on top of which they will build. Smart contract developers who build on Ethereum should similarly iterate on dApp architecture as the blockchain changes.Design for extreme temperaturesDesign for rising water levelsA proposal for how to design dApps that will scale with the rollup-centric future of Ethereum.Ethereum, the most prominent decentralized blockchain, gifted computer programmers a new pri...

Written by Benjamin FunkRevisiting the Exchange LandscapeAs quickly as its discovery, MEV has cemented itself as an unshakeable part of public blockchains. With this, an acceptance of MEV as a part of the exchange process for crypto assets has followed and led to an explosion of new products and protocols focused on minimizing and mitigating its adverse effects. Whether these efforts are enshrined, aligned, offchain, or onchain, they’ve brought together teams of brilliant people and a massive...

Written by Benjamin FunkRevisiting the Exchange LandscapeAs quickly as its discovery, MEV has cemented itself as an unshakeable part of public blockchains. With this, an acceptance of MEV as a part of the exchange process for crypto assets has followed and led to an explosion of new products and protocols focused on minimizing and mitigating its adverse effects. Whether these efforts are enshrined, aligned, offchain, or onchain, they’ve brought together teams of brilliant people and a massive...

Written by Danny Sursock Our framework for mapping Ethereum’s role at the forefront of Web3 in order to understand, and ultimately quantify, its value as a network. Note: a condensed version of this report was released by Bankless HQ.A Symbiotic Digital AgeCrypto is an age in which technology, culture, and finance converge in open digital worlds powered by blockchains. While the last few decades have seen our commercial domains evolve from the industrial to the digital, the initial mass marke...

Written by Danny Sursock Our framework for mapping Ethereum’s role at the forefront of Web3 in order to understand, and ultimately quantify, its value as a network. Note: a condensed version of this report was released by Bankless HQ.A Symbiotic Digital AgeCrypto is an age in which technology, culture, and finance converge in open digital worlds powered by blockchains. While the last few decades have seen our commercial domains evolve from the industrial to the digital, the initial mass marke...

Written by Nick Pai, Katie Chiou At Archetype, we believe that understanding where new interoperability projects are positioned within the infrastructure stack is crucial to making sound investment decisions. The technical stack for blockchain infrastructure has changed drastically over the years, demanding that frameworks for understanding interoperability adjust as well. With this post, we want to reflect on the evolution of the blockchain interoperability stack, unpack each of its componen...

Written by Nick Pai, Katie Chiou At Archetype, we believe that understanding where new interoperability projects are positioned within the infrastructure stack is crucial to making sound investment decisions. The technical stack for blockchain infrastructure has changed drastically over the years, demanding that frameworks for understanding interoperability adjust as well. With this post, we want to reflect on the evolution of the blockchain interoperability stack, unpack each of its componen...

Written by Katie Chiou I recently wrote a post on my personal blog about the state of the music industry, spanning the economics of streaming to social discovery to the role of media publications in elevating artists. The general thesis was that the music ecosystem is extremely complex and esoteric, and we’re overdue for new models and new platforms. The original post was not framed through the lens of solution-finding or crypto, but my research made me more excited and confident about the op...

Written by Katie Chiou I recently wrote a post on my personal blog about the state of the music industry, spanning the economics of streaming to social discovery to the role of media publications in elevating artists. The general thesis was that the music ecosystem is extremely complex and esoteric, and we’re overdue for new models and new platforms. The original post was not framed through the lens of solution-finding or crypto, but my research made me more excited and confident about the op...