2024 Developer ReportChristmas has come early for those who love reports!Electric Capital released their 6th annual Developer Report, highlighting the latest and greatest about developers in the industry.The 218 slide report is worth reading, but if you don’t have the time Maria Shen has a great thread on key insights and figures. Some of the highlights:There are 23,613 monthly active developers as of November 2024 with a 39% annualized developer growth rate since 2015 when Ethereum launchedE...

Last week during Art Basel the Pudgy Penguins team announced that they will be launching a token, PENGU. Pudgy Penguins @pudgypenguins Introducing $PENGU, the official coin of Pudgy Penguins. Launching in 2024. Learn more below. 12.9K 5:58 PM • Dec 5, 2024 I'll admit, I got chills watching this video, forcing my wife to watch it with me on our TV (she enjoyed it…I think?). Partially because I’m biased as I have a Pudgy Penguin, but also because there hasn’t been a top NFT project that dropped...

Happy $100k Bitcoin for everyone who celebrates!Crypto is stocks but betterOn the note of celebrating special days, it’s holiday season for many of us. That means family, friends, and conversations about various topics, including crypto. Fortunately, this year the conversations are met with (hopefully) curiosity instead of sarcastic remarks like this one.The day before Thanksgiving Chris Burniske, respected VC and OG in the space, shared practical tips on how to have conversations with friend...

For those in the U.S. who celebrated Thanksgiving last week, I hope you had a great holiday spent with family and friends, great food, and shopping! I certainly did on the food part and couldn’t walk straight for a couple days lol. Since my last post about AI agents a few weeks back, there have been so many developments that every day feels like drinking from a firehose. Observing, watching, and participating in this new emerging intersection between crypto and AI has been fascinating and sli...

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...

Wow (!!!)I first found out about Wow thanks to the team’s spot-on meme posts that only chronically online folks (especially those in crypto) would understand. In each post the !!! logo is emblazoned front and center.Gold star for you if you know this memeThe posts served as a form of commentary on the stories of the day cycling in and out of the collective consciousness featuring Murad, Moo Deng, Biden and Obama, Trump, Jerome Powell, BitBoy, Vitalik, Young Thug, and more. If you’re into meme...

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...

AI in crypto marketingAs AI x Crypto and various AI agents continue to dominate mindshare, the topic has moved into marketing and growth circles as well. This week, Emily (VP Marketing at Hype) and Jin (Head of Marketing at Nuffle Labs) created a new Telegram group for folks who want to learn more about how to apply AI tools in their growth and marketing efforts. Check it out here. Earlier today, Emily and Jin hopped on a livestream and Jin walked through frameworks, workflows, and tools he u...

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