Blockchains didn’t fail to reach the mainstream because of gas fees or wallets. They failed because we taught the world to see them as casinos. Every interface, every button, every word we chose pointed people toward one conclusion: this is a place to gamble. But blockchains were never just about money. They are a new kind of computer—a multiplayer, persistent, permissionless substrate for building things we’ve never seen before. And yet, everything we’ve built so far has been shaped by a nar...

When I was a kid, I remember walking down the block and noticing something different. The sidewalk—normally a cold, gray sheet of certainty—was soft. A fresh slab of cement had just been poured, smoothed over like a blank canvas. And suddenly, I was standing in front of it with a war raging in my chest. Should I? Would I? Could I? I knew what it was. A chance. A moment. A doorway to permanence. That cement was going to dry, and anything I etched into it would outlast the day, the week, maybe ...

Introduction: The Crash Was Never the StoryIn March 2021, Beeple’s Everydays sold for $69 million at a Christie’s auction. To many, it was the starting gun for the NFT boom. Within months, profile picture (PFP) projects were everywhere, marketplaces like OpenSea exploded in volume, and a wave of artists, collectors, speculators, and brands rushed into the space. By 2023, it was over. Trading volumes collapsed. Floors fell. Twitter timelines went quiet. The world looked on and said what it alw...

In the early days of the internet, digital things were weightless. A song, an image, a document—once uploaded—could be copied and shared infinitely with no degradation, no loss, no cost beyond bandwidth. This was both the internet’s greatest feature and its most profound limitation. The sheer abundance of digital information made it an unprecedented medium for communication, but it also meant that anything digital was fundamentally ephemeral and valueless in the traditional sense. There was n...

It’s been exactly one year since I typed the very first “!attack” command into a Farcaster feed. At the time, I was just one guy with a quirky idea and a nearly nonexistent budget. I called the project “Farcastles”—a text-based, collaborative worldbuilding game that lived entirely on a decentralized social platform. Honestly, I had no plan to pioneer a new gaming genre or prove that on-chain adventures could be the future. I just wanted to inspire some excitement and show people that this fee...

Video games have always been pioneers of technological innovation. From the simple, pixelated joy of Pong to sprawling, open-world masterpieces like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, each leap forward has brought new possibilities for storytelling, creativity, and human connection. And yet, gaming has often relied on tools of the past, tethering its evolution to the same centralized systems that define most digital media. What happens when a new medium—one built on blockchain technolog...

There’s a whole lot of magic happening behind the scenes from the moment your fingertips touch the screen that brought you to this blog post. Trillions of electrons are shifting through space, bits racing through thousands of transistors, memory moving from one place to another—all to light up the pixels that form the words you're reading right now. It’s so seamless, so immediate, that we rarely stop to think about what’s actually happening beneath the surface. But this level of seamless inte...

When home consoles first entered the gaming market, their appeal was clear: “An arcade in your living room.” The pitch was simple and compelling, but the reality often fell short. Early consoles couldn’t match the sheer sensory power of arcade machines—nor could they replicate the communal buzz of playing games shoulder-to-shoulder with friends in a neon-lit arcade. Still, the promise was there, and for a time, consoles relied on mimicking what had come before. Titles like Pac-Man and Donkey ...

113, the artist from the future behind Terraforms by Matcastles, has sometimes called Ethereum a sculpture garden. The Museum of Modern A...

At first, I dismissed Farcaster as just another X (formerly Twitter) clone, doomed to fail against the established social media giants. "It's Twitter...