The Tinkering Society

Rich Uncle Pennybags (aka, Mr. Monopoly) would love crypto. It blends casual gambling, canines, and even jail time. It is interesting to think about how the magnate would view Free Public Infrastructure as a business proposition. Whether he would scoff at the altruistic vision or see an oppor...

ChatGPT is a trove of potential, and the recent OpenAI paper squarely put Blockchain Dev as a career at risk from its growth. We decided to set our own task to it after seeing experiments filter through our feeds from coders across Twitter. We asked ourselves: can AI create effective NFT contr...

If you spend your time on Twitter, the Bitcoin vs Ethereum maxi debate can become overwhelming. “Bitcoin is the only money and Etherium is just a slow, premined, ponzi database built to distract us from solving everything.” “Ethereum is built on ultrasound network effect and doesn’t fall prey t...

Blockchain is in its dial-up phase, where accessing the tech is a frustrating, stuttering process. Modular architecture, while pitched as scalability’s panacea, potentially compounds the issue by further siloing users within chains. Overcoming these gaps through a blanket, unified communicati...

As a space, and as an incubator, discussions around tokenization, ownership, and standardization always bubble away. One thing that we don’t touch on enough is transferring unique IRL values into Web3. Can something like Van Gogh’s Sunflowers or Picasso’s Guernica ever truly be tokenized? ...

Young industries are often cyclical as the potential future outlook can swing wildly between “will take over the world” and “Beanie Babies”. Crypto is no different as any long term price chart of Bitcoin will tell you. This is my 4th cycle - I came of age in the 2011 cycle when after reaching d...

As the news came out that Circle had USD deposits on Silicon Valley bank, the gm Portfolio attempted to divest itself of USDC. By the time the multi-sig owners came together for a trade on the afternoon of March 10, 2023, the potential loss for conversion into USDT via the Curve Finance 3pool...

What does the future architecture of blockchains look like? We already have rollups as a separate execution layer emerging out from the general purpose blockchain. Newer technologies promise further modular separation of data availability, consensus, and settlement. Will this happen? Will blo...

The gm Portfolio is a public, real-time investment portfolio. The creators of the Portfolio are a group of friends who are passionate about the cryptoasset industry. Our focus will be the DeFi space, though we may venture outside that arena for the right investment. At this time (Feb 3, 2023)...

It doesn’t take a wizard to realize Gitcoin is in a state of operational flux. Grants is a towering beast of collaboration that seems to be cooling off, like much of DeFi in these grizzly and low-key building months. ‍ As highlighted recently by M0nkeyFl0wer, Cause Rounds Lead, one of the core...