The AnnouncementAt Meta Connect 2025, the company unveiled its Ray-Ban Meta Display smart glasses and a Neural Band wristband that reads subtle muscle signals to control digital devices with a flick of your fingers. Paired with new AR developer tools, Meta is betting big on hands-free computing, immersive overlays, and seamless interactions. It’s being marketed as an everyday consumer product. But for Web3 communities who already live at the intersection of online and offline, these tools cou...

The AnnouncementAt Meta Connect 2025, the company unveiled its Ray-Ban Meta Display smart glasses and a Neural Band wristband that reads subtle muscle signals to control digital devices with a flick of your fingers. Paired with new AR developer tools, Meta is betting big on hands-free computing, immersive overlays, and seamless interactions. It’s being marketed as an everyday consumer product. But for Web3 communities who already live at the intersection of online and offline, these tools cou...

The Week Ahead: Monday • SEC & CFTC host a joint roundtable • Michael Saylor discloses another 196 BTC purchase • Trump meets Congress as shutdown risk looms • Swift’s Sibos event kicks off — speakers include Chainlink, GS digital assets lead, ConsensysTuesday • Visit the subscriber post for Tuesday to Friday details: https://x.com/GodsBurnt/status/1972710744081805477

The Week Ahead: Monday • SEC & CFTC host a joint roundtable • Michael Saylor discloses another 196 BTC purchase • Trump meets Congress as shutdown risk looms • Swift’s Sibos event kicks off — speakers include Chainlink, GS digital assets lead, ConsensysTuesday • Visit the subscriber post for Tuesday to Friday details: https://x.com/GodsBurnt/status/1972710744081805477

The AnnouncementGoogle is developing a new protocol called AP2 (Agent Payments Protocol), designed to let autonomous AI agents send and receive payments—potentially using stablecoins or crypto rails. The idea: AI chatbots, task runners, or multi-agent systems could soon book flights, pay invoices, tip creators, or rebalance portfolios without human clicks. It’s automation, but with a wallet.“AI agents won’t just talk to you. They’ll pay on your behalf.”Why This Matters for Web3For years, the ...

The AnnouncementGoogle is developing a new protocol called AP2 (Agent Payments Protocol), designed to let autonomous AI agents send and receive payments—potentially using stablecoins or crypto rails. The idea: AI chatbots, task runners, or multi-agent systems could soon book flights, pay invoices, tip creators, or rebalance portfolios without human clicks. It’s automation, but with a wallet.“AI agents won’t just talk to you. They’ll pay on your behalf.”Why This Matters for Web3For years, the ...

Branding has always been about more than logos and color palettes. It’s about how you look, how you’re remembered, and ultimately how people experience you. In the age of Web3, those principles are amplified. Throughout this article, we’ll use the Bark Branding Course, created by Barkmeta for the Doginal Dogs community, as an example of branding done right. Much like Apple obsesses over the feel of its packaging or Nike perfects the curve of a swoosh, Bark’s framework shows how identity, cons...

Branding has always been about more than logos and color palettes. It’s about how you look, how you’re remembered, and ultimately how people experience you. In the age of Web3, those principles are amplified. Throughout this article, we’ll use the Bark Branding Course, created by Barkmeta for the Doginal Dogs community, as an example of branding done right. Much like Apple obsesses over the feel of its packaging or Nike perfects the curve of a swoosh, Bark’s framework shows how identity, cons...

The Headline MoveAccording to Financial News London, a new wave of acquisitions is reshaping the financial landscape: crypto-native companies are buying traditional asset management firms to tap institutional capital and bring regulated financial expertise in-house. Once considered rivals, digital-asset startups and Wall Street incumbents are suddenly on the same side of the deal table. For the first time, crypto isn’t asking for legitimacy — it’s acquiring it.“Yesterday’s disruptors are beco...

The Headline MoveAccording to Financial News London, a new wave of acquisitions is reshaping the financial landscape: crypto-native companies are buying traditional asset management firms to tap institutional capital and bring regulated financial expertise in-house. Once considered rivals, digital-asset startups and Wall Street incumbents are suddenly on the same side of the deal table. For the first time, crypto isn’t asking for legitimacy — it’s acquiring it.“Yesterday’s disruptors are beco...

The Doginal Dogs community, already recognized as one of the most active and engaged Web3 collectives on X, has announced a major milestone: its affiliate network has grown to 110 members. This expansion marks the launch of a new affiliate DAO, Beanies on Business, further strengthening the community’s influence across Web3 culture.Expanding DAO EcosystemDoginal Dogs now hosts four distinct DAOs, each uniting creators, writers, brand strategists, influencers, and KOLs under a shared vision of...

The Doginal Dogs community, already recognized as one of the most active and engaged Web3 collectives on X, has announced a major milestone: its affiliate network has grown to 110 members. This expansion marks the launch of a new affiliate DAO, Beanies on Business, further strengthening the community’s influence across Web3 culture.Expanding DAO EcosystemDoginal Dogs now hosts four distinct DAOs, each uniting creators, writers, brand strategists, influencers, and KOLs under a shared vision of...

When Web3 communities host real-world events — whether DAO town halls, NFT gallery shows, or crypto hackathons — they face the same challenge: how do you capture the energy of a decentralized crowd and share it back with the global community? GoPro’s newly released Max 2 camera may have just solved that problem.Why the GoPro Max 2 MattersThe Max 2 isn’t just another action cam. It’s a leap forward in 360° capture, offering 8K resolution at 30fps, 10-bit colour, and GoPro’s GP-Log colour profi...

When Web3 communities host real-world events — whether DAO town halls, NFT gallery shows, or crypto hackathons — they face the same challenge: how do you capture the energy of a decentralized crowd and share it back with the global community? GoPro’s newly released Max 2 camera may have just solved that problem.Why the GoPro Max 2 MattersThe Max 2 isn’t just another action cam. It’s a leap forward in 360° capture, offering 8K resolution at 30fps, 10-bit colour, and GoPro’s GP-Log colour profi...

Your profile picture (PFP) is more than an image. It’s your online identity. It signals your allegiance, your tribe, and your taste. But sitting quietly above it is an often-ignored piece of visual real estate. Your banner image. The banner is frequently treated as digital wallpaper, decorative but secondary. But it’s much more than that. The banner is your story space, your brand stage, and your bridge between multiple projects.The Difference Between a PFP and a BannerPFP = Identity. Your PF...

Your profile picture (PFP) is more than an image. It’s your online identity. It signals your allegiance, your tribe, and your taste. But sitting quietly above it is an often-ignored piece of visual real estate. Your banner image. The banner is frequently treated as digital wallpaper, decorative but secondary. But it’s much more than that. The banner is your story space, your brand stage, and your bridge between multiple projects.The Difference Between a PFP and a BannerPFP = Identity. Your PF...

The Big Idea: Money as Humanity’s Scarcity MachineArthur Hayes begins with a philosophical question: How does society manage scarcity when utopia is still science fiction? Until humanity achieves infinite energy and abundance, we need a mechanism to decide who gets what—and that mechanism is money. Money, he says, is how markets “adjudicate scarcity.” It’s the tool that tells society what to produce, how much, and for whom. But whenever governments interfere with either the price of money (in...

The Big Idea: Money as Humanity’s Scarcity MachineArthur Hayes begins with a philosophical question: How does society manage scarcity when utopia is still science fiction? Until humanity achieves infinite energy and abundance, we need a mechanism to decide who gets what—and that mechanism is money. Money, he says, is how markets “adjudicate scarcity.” It’s the tool that tells society what to produce, how much, and for whom. But whenever governments interfere with either the price of money (in...

The AnnouncementGoogle just unveiled Gemini-powered AI features in Chrome. The browser can now:Summarize pages automatically.Recall content you visited weeks ago.Act as an “agent” performing multi-step tasks.Integrate with YouTube, Maps, Calendar, and other Google apps.Even manage security permissions to “protect” you from scams.On the surface, it looks like convenience. In reality, it’s the browser becoming a gatekeeper of knowledge and intent.“In the age of AI browsing, the browser doesn’t ...

The AnnouncementGoogle just unveiled Gemini-powered AI features in Chrome. The browser can now:Summarize pages automatically.Recall content you visited weeks ago.Act as an “agent” performing multi-step tasks.Integrate with YouTube, Maps, Calendar, and other Google apps.Even manage security permissions to “protect” you from scams.On the surface, it looks like convenience. In reality, it’s the browser becoming a gatekeeper of knowledge and intent.“In the age of AI browsing, the browser doesn’t ...

In 2015, stick-figure diagrams on a quirky blog jolted the internet into imagining a world of superintelligence. By 2025, new scenario planning documents like AI 2027 were charting not just concepts, but year-by-year roadmaps of how humanity might stumble—or sprint—into an age of machines smarter than us. A decade of breakthroughs has transformed both the technology and the way we talk about it. Here’s how our thinking has evolved—and what it means for the years ahead.2015: When Superintellig...

In 2015, stick-figure diagrams on a quirky blog jolted the internet into imagining a world of superintelligence. By 2025, new scenario planning documents like AI 2027 were charting not just concepts, but year-by-year roadmaps of how humanity might stumble—or sprint—into an age of machines smarter than us. A decade of breakthroughs has transformed both the technology and the way we talk about it. Here’s how our thinking has evolved—and what it means for the years ahead.2015: When Superintellig...

The Countdown EconomyLast week, TikTok feeds filled with clips predicting the world would end on September 23–24. Dubbed RaptureTok, the trend spread fast: creators stitched videos into timelines, hashtags surged, and news outlets covered the frenzy with equal parts alarm and amusement. The details don’t matter — the world didn’t end. What matters is the pattern: claim, copy, counter-claim. Within hours, millions of strangers were synchronised around a clock. That’s not prophecy — it’s a coor...

The Countdown EconomyLast week, TikTok feeds filled with clips predicting the world would end on September 23–24. Dubbed RaptureTok, the trend spread fast: creators stitched videos into timelines, hashtags surged, and news outlets covered the frenzy with equal parts alarm and amusement. The details don’t matter — the world didn’t end. What matters is the pattern: claim, copy, counter-claim. Within hours, millions of strangers were synchronised around a clock. That’s not prophecy — it’s a coor...