BY AUSTIN ROBEY - Austin is a contributor at Forefront and Co-founder of Ampled. In this conversation, Austin talks to Nathan Schneider, a proponent and leader of the “Exit to Community” movement to learn more about its background and meaning, as well as its application within crypto networks. Nathan is an author and a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he directs the Media Enterprise Design Lab.What is the idea behind “Exit to Community”? What does it mea...

BY AUSTIN ROBEY - Austin is a contributor at Forefront and Co-founder of Ampled. In this conversation, Austin talks to Nathan Schneider, a proponent and leader of the “Exit to Community” movement to learn more about its background and meaning, as well as its application within crypto networks. Nathan is an author and a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he directs the Media Enterprise Design Lab.What is the idea behind “Exit to Community”? What does it mea...

Analysis of on-chain activity of social tokens tracked by Forefront.Social Tokens have exploded in growth over the past 18 months and momentum is still picking up. Forefront community member RantumBits conducted an on-chain analysis of the 25 tokens listed on Forefront Market, as measured in the Dune Analytics dashboard on the number of wallets holding tokens, and their trading activity. (Note: price activity will be added to the dashboard once tokens are added to Dune’s database.) While ther...

Analysis of on-chain activity of social tokens tracked by Forefront.Social Tokens have exploded in growth over the past 18 months and momentum is still picking up. Forefront community member RantumBits conducted an on-chain analysis of the 25 tokens listed on Forefront Market, as measured in the Dune Analytics dashboard on the number of wallets holding tokens, and their trading activity. (Note: price activity will be added to the dashboard once tokens are added to Dune’s database.) While ther...

Forefront is excited to announce its first NFT Drop collab with Mintfunds uprising artist Ikaro Cavalcante (Occulted). Occulted is a transdisciplinary Brazilian artist working with 3D and sounds that reconstruct common spaces with their affective memory, be they virtual, such as games, or physical, such as internet cafes. Their most recent work "Perennial Links" was featured on Sotheby’s Natively Digital NFT Auction. The drop features two limited edition NFTs, entitled "Genesis Connect" and "...

Forefront is excited to announce its first NFT Drop collab with Mintfunds uprising artist Ikaro Cavalcante (Occulted). Occulted is a transdisciplinary Brazilian artist working with 3D and sounds that reconstruct common spaces with their affective memory, be they virtual, such as games, or physical, such as internet cafes. Their most recent work "Perennial Links" was featured on Sotheby’s Natively Digital NFT Auction. The drop features two limited edition NFTs, entitled "Genesis Connect" and "...

see NFT auction belowThe focus of this piece is to highlight the important business opportunities that social tokens and NFTs enable for services, software, and creators without 3rd party investment. We cover what tokenized access and subscriptions look like, ongoing experiments with the tech, as well as the numerous advantages over traditional SaaS. We purposefully don’t dive specifically into other important benefits that token economies can provide services willing to decentralize, such as...

see NFT auction belowThe focus of this piece is to highlight the important business opportunities that social tokens and NFTs enable for services, software, and creators without 3rd party investment. We cover what tokenized access and subscriptions look like, ongoing experiments with the tech, as well as the numerous advantages over traditional SaaS. We purposefully don’t dive specifically into other important benefits that token economies can provide services willing to decentralize, such as...

🎯 Update: WOW. Target reached! We are overwhelmed by the support for this experiment in funding high quality public content. Thank you to all who have contributed by collecting the NFT. This essay is now permanently available to the public.This is a guest post featuring Austin Robey, co-founder at Ampled in an FF exclusive. "The Ownership Economy" is an idea coined by Variant Fund investor Jesse Walden to describe emergent ways that crypto networks can be built, owned, and controlled by thei...

🎯 Update: WOW. Target reached! We are overwhelmed by the support for this experiment in funding high quality public content. Thank you to all who have contributed by collecting the NFT. This essay is now permanently available to the public.This is a guest post featuring Austin Robey, co-founder at Ampled in an FF exclusive. "The Ownership Economy" is an idea coined by Variant Fund investor Jesse Walden to describe emergent ways that crypto networks can be built, owned, and controlled by thei...

A Coopah x ForeFront Collab. Social tokens. Community tokens. Creator coins. DAOs. The terms you hear every day have evolved into a movement with no signs of slowing down. In the time that’s passed since the 2020 Social Token Year in Review, what was once a nascent sector has become a hotbed for the industry’s most creative minds to explore the intersection of financial and social capital. https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa/status/1343606740894568448 In this refresh, we’ll provide a snapshot o...

A Coopah x ForeFront Collab. Social tokens. Community tokens. Creator coins. DAOs. The terms you hear every day have evolved into a movement with no signs of slowing down. In the time that’s passed since the 2020 Social Token Year in Review, what was once a nascent sector has become a hotbed for the industry’s most creative minds to explore the intersection of financial and social capital. https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa/status/1343606740894568448 In this refresh, we’ll provide a snapshot o...