Learning How to Work Sustainably When All You Want to Do Is Just DAO ItI fell for you hard and fast, DAOs. I’ve never considered an affair, but I imagine the beginning feels a lot like this: you are transported to a timeless space where you sense high potential energy, a passionate opening of the universe and a broadening of what you thought was possible, a landscape of limitless opportunities for novelty, exploration, and connection. You are firmly situated in the present and tilting towards...

Learning How to Work Sustainably When All You Want to Do Is Just DAO ItI fell for you hard and fast, DAOs. I’ve never considered an affair, but I imagine the beginning feels a lot like this: you are transported to a timeless space where you sense high potential energy, a passionate opening of the universe and a broadening of what you thought was possible, a landscape of limitless opportunities for novelty, exploration, and connection. You are firmly situated in the present and tilting towards...

Free, Open Source, Fully Composable Code Could Rival ConsenSysWe use our crypto wallet every day; it’s one of our most important possessions. With our wallet, we check account balances, connect to dApps and DAOs, port into the metaverse, and keep our digital assets safe behind private keys. Most crypto wallets are owned by for-profit companies. Coinbase Wallet is owned by Coinbase, a publicly-traded company. Trust Wallet is owned by Binance and MetaMask is owned by ConsenSys, both of which ar...

Free, Open Source, Fully Composable Code Could Rival ConsenSysWe use our crypto wallet every day; it’s one of our most important possessions. With our wallet, we check account balances, connect to dApps and DAOs, port into the metaverse, and keep our digital assets safe behind private keys. Most crypto wallets are owned by for-profit companies. Coinbase Wallet is owned by Coinbase, a publicly-traded company. Trust Wallet is owned by Binance and MetaMask is owned by ConsenSys, both of which ar...

Thoughtful Governance Design Inspired by Gitcoin and ENSThe Tally Ho Web3 wallet is starting to get the attention it deserves, and for good reason. The Tally Ho team is building a wallet with all the functionality of MetaMask, but with the soul of a solarpunk: a community-owned wallet that is open source, fully composable, and has public goods funding built into its source code. In essence, Tally Ho is a wallet that also functions as a public good. If you’re curious about the functionality of...

Thoughtful Governance Design Inspired by Gitcoin and ENSThe Tally Ho Web3 wallet is starting to get the attention it deserves, and for good reason. The Tally Ho team is building a wallet with all the functionality of MetaMask, but with the soul of a solarpunk: a community-owned wallet that is open source, fully composable, and has public goods funding built into its source code. In essence, Tally Ho is a wallet that also functions as a public good. If you’re curious about the functionality of...

DAI Goes Green by Leveraging Off-Chain AssetsMakerDAO (Maker) is one of the oldest and most decentralized issuers of stablecoins. As of early January 2022, approximately 9.3 billion DAI are in circulation, while the equivalent of 18 billion USD is currently held as collateral in various Maker vaults. Stablecoins, including DAI, have enabled the explosive growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) over the past 18 months. By some measures, the total value locked in DeFi platforms stands at approxi...

DAI Goes Green by Leveraging Off-Chain AssetsMakerDAO (Maker) is one of the oldest and most decentralized issuers of stablecoins. As of early January 2022, approximately 9.3 billion DAI are in circulation, while the equivalent of 18 billion USD is currently held as collateral in various Maker vaults. Stablecoins, including DAI, have enabled the explosive growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) over the past 18 months. By some measures, the total value locked in DeFi platforms stands at approxi...

7 Blockchain Explorer BasicsWhen I first got into crypto and began to explore the Ethereum ecosystem, I really had no idea how to interact with the blockchain. Sure, I could fire up my MetaMask and look at the little ETH I had, but it wasn’t until I decided to swap some of that ETH for another token that I began to think about what MetaMask was doing. After swapping that ETH for UNI, I didn’t see that token in my wallet. I panicked, thinking that I had done something wrong and had screwed up ...

7 Blockchain Explorer BasicsWhen I first got into crypto and began to explore the Ethereum ecosystem, I really had no idea how to interact with the blockchain. Sure, I could fire up my MetaMask and look at the little ETH I had, but it wasn’t until I decided to swap some of that ETH for another token that I began to think about what MetaMask was doing. After swapping that ETH for UNI, I didn’t see that token in my wallet. I panicked, thinking that I had done something wrong and had screwed up ...

Last week, we started to get comfy with some basic blockchain concepts such as trustlessness and immutability. This week builds on that, as we explore seven more things you should be aware of when considering which blockchain ecosystem to call home.Degree of DecentralizationIn 7 Blockchain Basics, we distinguished distribution from decentralization. Recall that distribution refers to the physical location of the computers that keep the blockchain running. By contrast, decentralization refers ...

Last week, we started to get comfy with some basic blockchain concepts such as trustlessness and immutability. This week builds on that, as we explore seven more things you should be aware of when considering which blockchain ecosystem to call home.Degree of DecentralizationIn 7 Blockchain Basics, we distinguished distribution from decentralization. Recall that distribution refers to the physical location of the computers that keep the blockchain running. By contrast, decentralization refers ...

Even if you’re brand new to crypto, you’ve probably heard of the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks. You may have even read about or interacted with Solana, Avalanche, Binance Smart Chain, Fantom, Cardano, and Algorand. On top of these more well-known blockchains, there are hundreds (thousands?) of other blockchains in the cryptoverse. The blockchain is the core technological advancement that enables our web3 world. The blockchains most web3 users interact with share a number of core attributes. A...

Even if you’re brand new to crypto, you’ve probably heard of the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks. You may have even read about or interacted with Solana, Avalanche, Binance Smart Chain, Fantom, Cardano, and Algorand. On top of these more well-known blockchains, there are hundreds (thousands?) of other blockchains in the cryptoverse. The blockchain is the core technological advancement that enables our web3 world. The blockchains most web3 users interact with share a number of core attributes. A...