Hey friends 👋 With the markets looking like rollercoasters lately, I’ve been thinking a lot more about the importance of having a stable financial base 💰 Decentralized Finance is after all still finance. It can be a bit confusing sometimes because we use the word cryptocurrency to describe many different tokenized assets, from currencies and stores of value, to credits for use within a particular ecosystem, to investments in a meme, and even voting shares of decentralized organizations 😵‍�...

Hey friends 👋 If you’ve read much of my content, you’ll know that I love to dig deep and look at the inner workings of various technologies 🔬 After all, a lot of very deliberate choices have to be made for things to work in a way that feels seamless. Take for example the push notifications you receive all day long on your phone. They can be a bit overwhelming at times, but have you ever thought about what it would be like if they just didn’t exist at all? Let’s really consider this for a mo...

Hey friends 👋 When I first got interested in cryptocurrency, I was immediately enamored with the technology and had to dig deeper and learn all I could. I learned about how transactions are written to a global, decentralized ledger, and those transactions are immutable — meaning they can’t be stopped or reversed — which makes them censorship-resistant and very secure 🔐 As a technophile, born into the dial-up days of the internet, I’ve always been one to become obsessed with the way things w...

Hey friends 👋 In a recent post, I explained the idea (and the technology) behind the Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS). This Web3 protocol aims to provide a missing piece of the decentralized web’s infrastructure: a dedicated communications layer. If you want to learn more about how exactly EPNS works, check out that post, because this time we’re focusing on a crucial component EPNS’ (and every DAO’s) roadmap…Progressive Decentralized GovernanceIf you’re familiar with the world of We...