Web3 with TPan

Did you miss me? I’m back from Asia, spending a week at Devcon and another week in Japan. Because if I’m going to fly halfway around the world, might as well spend a little more time there!Devcon was my first international industry event, first conference during a bull market (hope I don’t jinx it..), and first time riding Grab bikes weaving through Bangkok traffic with the occasional feeling of my life flashing before my eyes while inhaling exhaust fumes 😂 Overall, it was a great experience...

Alright, it’s Election Day in the US, so many of us are I am distracted. Despite that, I need to do my patriotic duty of posting according to my regular schedule in the face of the attention blackhole that is this election.Because of this, I figured it would be a good opportunity to provide a roundup of a few topics I’ve found interesting.Electric Capital's Global Crypto Developer DataMaria Shen of Electric Capital recently shared some new data about the crypto developer ecosystem. Electric C...

Over the past few years, we’ve seen the potential of tokens and their various use cases (or lack thereof). One prevailing theme, regardless of the token’s purpose is around participation. That could mean self-custodial ownership, governance, or access via token-gating.Tokens are a much better version of this lolAn area where deeper forms of participation with tokens continue to be explored is entertainment. Some examples:Creator League: 8 popular gaming creators would compete in various compe...

AI x Memecoins Yup we’re talking about memecoins, again. Except this time, at the intersection of AI, yippeee! Appreciate the nudge from a reader and Kaito’s stat that half of Crypto Twitter’s mindshare is focused on AI and/or memes. Wild. I’m far from an AI expert, but there are enough themes to poke into that are worth sharing and pondering more about, as they’ll likely reappear in one way or another in both expected and unexpected ways. The age of bots is giving way to the age of agents. Trut

Over the past few weeks, another memecoin trading mobile app has been making rounds as memes continued to dominate mindshare: Moonshot. I first came across Moonshot from a viral UGC ad for the app. It certainly raised my eyebrows, and probably did the same for others. Especially since their target market seems to be Gen Z users with dreams of making a quick 100x.Intentional low blow to teachers (shout out to the educators out there), and undeniably effective as this post got 500k+ views. Last...

Earlier today, I covered a session on Content Growth and GTM case studies to the inaugural cohort of the Octant Accelerator.What is Octant?Octant is a public goods funding ecosystem created by the Golem Foundation. Golem has a treasury of 100k ETH (~$250 million 🤯), which was accumulated by a crowdfunding effort back in 2016. That 100k ETH is staked and a portion of the yield (like interest earned from a bank account) is then donated to public goods projects. Octant community members can acq...