The Bobu Magic ShowEarlier today Azuki introduced the Bobu Magic Show, a livestream YouTube event on October 10th. If Bobu sounds familiar, I recently covered him a few months ago with his AI-enhanced YouTube livestream, and it looks like he’ll be back and better than ever. This time, Bobu will be adding more tricks up his sleeve thanks to a partnership with Flashbots and TEEs (Trusted Execution Environment).WTF is FlashbotsFlashbots is an R&D org focusing on minimizing the negative impacts o...

The Lindy EffectThere is a term that I was introduced to as I spent more time in crypto and web3: Lindy. What does it mean to be Lindy and what is the Lindy effect?The Lindy effect is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy. Lo...

Last week I saw a a post from LayerZero, announcing that unclaimed tokens from their initial airdrop would be reallocated to eligible wallets. As a fortunate recipient of the initial airdrop several months ago, I wondered…would I be a lucky reallocation recipient?There was one keyword that caught my eye though:What is LayerZero and how did their TGE go?LayerZero is a cross-chain protocol that allows different blockchains to interact and communicate with each other. Some applications of the pr...

NFTs in media, music, and beyondAlthough the topics I cover have expanded much further beyond NFTs, I still have a soft spot for them. They’re the reason I got into the space after all. There were several announcements, observations, and releases that have me hopeful for the next iteration of NFTs as brands, IP, and companies with sustainable business models. Are we…*gasp*…back?A short list of developments and observations:Calladita is a movie funded by a NFT collection in 2022 and hit #1 in ...

Let’s travel back in time to late 2021, the peak of the NFT hype cycle.If you only bought and didn’t sell, you probably look back on that year like that chihuahua having flashbacks. NFT collections were reaching ridiculous valuations, communities were ogling over rare traits, with a hot new project launching every day. Almost all of these projects leaned heavily on the notion of scarcity with a capped supply — 5,000, 10,000, or more. Good times. As the industry moved on from the NFT hype (whi...

Saturday, 9pm I was at my high school friend’s wedding (congrats Jennifer and Michael!). It was great catching up with old high school friends reminiscing over old memories, and celebrating life’s milestones with the happy couple. While I was bopping on the dance floor, one of my high school buddies asked (or rather yelled in my ear):I could have answered this question in variety of ways. I could have responded with price of Bitcoin, ETFs, the top NFT projects becoming beloved brands, the rise..

Over the past year, several themes have emerged:Quests and points: This has become a fundamental pillar for almost every project’s go-to-...

NEAR Protocol pulls a stuntNEAR is a blockchain, but yesterday it was known for something else: getting hacked.As the day went on, the NE...

Over the past month and a half, I’ve periodically played around with Bags, a mobile app dedicated towards memecoin trading positioned in ...

At the start of this week, I was worried there wouldn’t be enough interesting topics to write about or share with you. And here I am a fe...