The Proof of Craic Fund supports artistic expressions of harm reduction that blend storytelling, metaphor, and community technology. I’m not here to romanticise trauma, or to wrap harm in some airy, abstract design framework. I’m here because the systems meant to protect us often don’t — and someone has to start saying that in plain language. Or at least in a way that doesn’t sound like it came out of a policy brief or a TED Talk. If you know what the craic is, you'll also know it's how Irish...

This surge of interest also speaks to the wider chicken-and-egg scenario in web3, in that people have been howling about mainstream adoption and the next billion for quite a while. And even though there are blockchain-based applications that are pretty cool, none of them are single-handedly drawing millions of consumers or users in. To be quite clear: I don’t think that’s a problem. Web3 has opened up so many possibilities for me and others. It’s a non-judgemental work environment, almost lik...