Millions of stores. Now powered by stablecoins. Shopify just rolled out USDC payments on Base for stores using Shopify Payments and Shop Pay. Spend crypto, get 1% back…

Gm and happy Friday. In an exciting week even by crypto standards, two House committees advanced market structure legislation and the Senate moved closer to passing its stablecoin bill.

The Weirding Index: Unusually high winds across the plains of discourse. A thunderhead of possibility builds over every city hall and county board. Expect a 70% chance of paradigm shift. In the dusky twilight of empires, there comes a time when even the worn institutions begin to flicker with the hint of something else—a whisper in the chambers, a wind through the alleys, a rumor that the Republic might rise again. Not the old Republic, mind you, but something ancestral and yet entirely new. Som

Day five of the Five-Day Build to use AI to quickly generate a faux sitcom about my very real life... today I reflect on how to build AI fluency through constraint-based building and daily practice

We're making a zine in this issue #249 of your weekly poetry shot

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) just announced its 2025 Architecture Award winners. This is a program that celebrate the best contemporary architecture in the US, spanning all scales and budgets. Firstly, I'm obligated to share that Studio Gang won an award for its Kresge College Expansion at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This is a beautiful project consisting of 4 new mass-timber buildings — three residential halls and an academic center — in the middle of a redwood fo...

An upgrade introducing an intent-based design enabling scalable fixed-rate, fixed-term loans.

We just rolled out Wallets. After running Cohort 2, we began to think more seriously about who we’re building for. Most of the creators we worked with already had some experience with crypto. They knew how to collect, they had a wallet, they understood the flow. But what we’re doing with Cohort 3 is different. This next group includes more traditional creators who have built audiences on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. We're looking for creatives who know how to create content but have faced ...

"If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere..." so the old song goes. In our case, “there” was a mount on a municipal vehicle in New York City. And “it” was SQUID—a dirt-simple, open-source street quality sensor, built to ride the rough edges of reality. We weren’t seeking to build a startup per say. We were trying to improve how cities fix potholes. The Tale of SQUIDIt began as a whisper of possibility: what if we could see the streets the way a city truck does—every bump, crack, and ...

Shopify and Coinbase are bringing payments onchain at scale with a new smart contract protocol to meet the complex requirements of commerce.