Last week, thousands of NFT, crypto, and web3 enthusiasts descended upon New York City for the fourth annual NFTNYC. Through varying experiences, the sub-communities under the web3 umbrella get to know each other IRL and socialize accordingly. The event is anchored by a multi-floor, sterile, traditional conference experience that wreaks of a money grab and does little to satisfy any want or need from the NFT community. Myself, having attended with a speaker, found the organization of the even...

Last week, thousands of NFT, crypto, and web3 enthusiasts descended upon New York City for the fourth annual NFTNYC. Through varying experiences, the sub-communities under the web3 umbrella get to know each other IRL and socialize accordingly. The event is anchored by a multi-floor, sterile, traditional conference experience that wreaks of a money grab and does little to satisfy any want or need from the NFT community. Myself, having attended with a speaker, found the organization of the even...

Welcome to another unsolicited opinion on this weekend’s Yuga Labs Otherside mint and its influence on the future of the web3 ecosystem. I’m assuming you’re coming to this post with a knowledge of the events and an already informed opinion of your own, so LJFG: Full disclosure on my trading activities during the Otherside mint — I have been doing daily buys or DCAs of $Ape since its inception just a few weeks ago. I sold a majority of this asset just before the Otherside mint and have since p...

Welcome to another unsolicited opinion on this weekend’s Yuga Labs Otherside mint and its influence on the future of the web3 ecosystem. I’m assuming you’re coming to this post with a knowledge of the events and an already informed opinion of your own, so LJFG: Full disclosure on my trading activities during the Otherside mint — I have been doing daily buys or DCAs of $Ape since its inception just a few weeks ago. I sold a majority of this asset just before the Otherside mint and have since p...

My Unconventional Journey Through The BlockchainIt’s 2015 and I’m fortunate enough to be hanging at a party on the Upper West Side of New York filled with Google employees. I’m energized and elated to be in a room full of people who are sufficiently aware of, and understand, my latest obsession: cryptocurrency. Being in that room was decisive. It confirmed that others believed what I believe. It gave me the assurance to go home and make my first investment. To this day, the most important mom...

My Unconventional Journey Through The BlockchainIt’s 2015 and I’m fortunate enough to be hanging at a party on the Upper West Side of New York filled with Google employees. I’m energized and elated to be in a room full of people who are sufficiently aware of, and understand, my latest obsession: cryptocurrency. Being in that room was decisive. It confirmed that others believed what I believe. It gave me the assurance to go home and make my first investment. To this day, the most important mom...

The lessons of stablecoin experimentation are playing out in real time this week. The false equivalency between $USD and stables is being revealed through empirical data and their associated mechanisms. At the center of the meltdown is Terra’s LUNA clocking in a whopping 98% price drop in 48 hours.Stablecoins integrate us from our sovereign systems to a digital world. Terra is a 2017 era stable which essentially uses crypto as collateral to peg its price to the dollar. In light of the colossa...

The lessons of stablecoin experimentation are playing out in real time this week. The false equivalency between $USD and stables is being revealed through empirical data and their associated mechanisms. At the center of the meltdown is Terra’s LUNA clocking in a whopping 98% price drop in 48 hours.Stablecoins integrate us from our sovereign systems to a digital world. Terra is a 2017 era stable which essentially uses crypto as collateral to peg its price to the dollar. In light of the colossa...

Tonight, I’ll be moderating a panel on behalf of Upstream, Venture City and Shrimp Society on web3/NFTs. With so much information flooding this space, I want to make sure this conversation is high IQ, but actionable and approachable by a novice. While I expect the conversation to evolve and flow naturally, I’ll share some of my fundamental thoughts below. I’m sharing my thoughts with the intention of receiving feedback from individuals with diverse backgrounds to increase the knowledge, netwo...

Tonight, I’ll be moderating a panel on behalf of Upstream, Venture City and Shrimp Society on web3/NFTs. With so much information flooding this space, I want to make sure this conversation is high IQ, but actionable and approachable by a novice. While I expect the conversation to evolve and flow naturally, I’ll share some of my fundamental thoughts below. I’m sharing my thoughts with the intention of receiving feedback from individuals with diverse backgrounds to increase the knowledge, netwo...

Web3/blockchain literacy is paramount to assure individuals and under represented communities have a seat at the meta-table of the future. As our IRL and virtual selves continue to converge, those who are seemingly unaware or feel left out are sure to be absorbed by the behaviors of the past. If you doom scroll twitter, attend any crypt-bro conference, or join a DAO or discord, a disproportionate amount of the discourse is between dudes. I have to admit, I’m not virtuous enough to have had th...

Web3/blockchain literacy is paramount to assure individuals and under represented communities have a seat at the meta-table of the future. As our IRL and virtual selves continue to converge, those who are seemingly unaware or feel left out are sure to be absorbed by the behaviors of the past. If you doom scroll twitter, attend any crypt-bro conference, or join a DAO or discord, a disproportionate amount of the discourse is between dudes. I have to admit, I’m not virtuous enough to have had th...