Some musings about MCON and Mainnet from this past week, 9/23/21

Some musings about MCON and Mainnet from this past week, 9/23/21

This post was originally published 11/5/21 in The Defiant As I pulled up to Zutto’s in Tribeca on the crisp autumn New York evening for the inaugural Ink DAO dinner, I couldn’t help but think about how absurd the entire occasion was. What started as a joke a little over a month ago has turned into a thriving group chat of 27 members all who have inked “ERC-721” someplace on their bodies, and a substantial percentage of people got it as their first tattoo. At dinner, it was nice catching up wi...

This post was originally published 11/5/21 in The Defiant As I pulled up to Zutto’s in Tribeca on the crisp autumn New York evening for the inaugural Ink DAO dinner, I couldn’t help but think about how absurd the entire occasion was. What started as a joke a little over a month ago has turned into a thriving group chat of 27 members all who have inked “ERC-721” someplace on their bodies, and a substantial percentage of people got it as their first tattoo. At dinner, it was nice catching up wi...

*Beyond thankful for Lyn (Hyerin) Kim for translating my article! Please follow her on Twitter.데이빗 리보위츠(David Liebowitz)2021년 10월 25일디파이 뉴스, 다이브전 세계인들이 리스본으로 모이자 'gm(Good Morning, 크립토 트위터들사이에서 유행하는 줄임 인삿말)’은 ‘bd(Bom Dia, 포르투갈어로 굿모닝)’로 바꼈고 메타버스(metaverse)는 리스콘(LISCON, 리스본에서 열린 크립토 컨퍼런스)의 개막을 알리는 일주일간의 이벤트들과 축하연에서 현실세계와 만났다. 도시 거리에 늘어선 좁은 언덕위 자갈길이든, 폼발린(Pombaline)양식의 스카이라인이 내려다보이는 옥상이든 그 곳에는 특별한 기운이 감돌고있었다. 이더리움 커뮤니티와 그 너머의 시장 리더들이 한자리에 모여 다오(DAO), 디파이(DeFi, 탈중앙화 금융), 그리고 엔에프티(NFT, 대체불가토큰)...

*Beyond thankful for Lyn (Hyerin) Kim for translating my article! Please follow her on Twitter.데이빗 리보위츠(David Liebowitz)2021년 10월 25일디파이 뉴스, 다이브전 세계인들이 리스본으로 모이자 'gm(Good Morning, 크립토 트위터들사이에서 유행하는 줄임 인삿말)’은 ‘bd(Bom Dia, 포르투갈어로 굿모닝)’로 바꼈고 메타버스(metaverse)는 리스콘(LISCON, 리스본에서 열린 크립토 컨퍼런스)의 개막을 알리는 일주일간의 이벤트들과 축하연에서 현실세계와 만났다. 도시 거리에 늘어선 좁은 언덕위 자갈길이든, 폼발린(Pombaline)양식의 스카이라인이 내려다보이는 옥상이든 그 곳에는 특별한 기운이 감돌고있었다. 이더리움 커뮤니티와 그 너머의 시장 리더들이 한자리에 모여 다오(DAO), 디파이(DeFi, 탈중앙화 금융), 그리고 엔에프티(NFT, 대체불가토큰)...

As people from all over the world gathered in Lisbon, “gm’s” turned to “bd’s” and the metaverse met in meatspace for a week of events and fanfare kicking off with Liscon. Whether it was in the compact hilly cobblestones that lined the city streets or the rooftops overlooking the Pombaline skyline, there was a certain electricity in the air. Leaders from all over the Ethereum community and beyond came together to bring attention to developments happening with DAOs, DeFi and NFTs, and most impo...

As people from all over the world gathered in Lisbon, “gm’s” turned to “bd’s” and the metaverse met in meatspace for a week of events and fanfare kicking off with Liscon. Whether it was in the compact hilly cobblestones that lined the city streets or the rooftops overlooking the Pombaline skyline, there was a certain electricity in the air. Leaders from all over the Ethereum community and beyond came together to bring attention to developments happening with DAOs, DeFi and NFTs, and most impo...

This post was originally published 10/29/21 in my personal mediumThe AMM model revolutionized liquidity provisioning and never before had it been possible to make such a wide variety of long-tail assets be tradable and sufficiently liquid. The first widely used implementation of an AMM, Uniswap v2, allowed for anyone to provide liquidity of an asset on an infinite curve. On this curve, everyone’s position was equal along with it, yet, those with large amounts of capital dominated pools and ea...

This post was originally published 10/29/21 in my personal mediumThe AMM model revolutionized liquidity provisioning and never before had it been possible to make such a wide variety of long-tail assets be tradable and sufficiently liquid. The first widely used implementation of an AMM, Uniswap v2, allowed for anyone to provide liquidity of an asset on an infinite curve. On this curve, everyone’s position was equal along with it, yet, those with large amounts of capital dominated pools and ea...