Over the past year, a new category in the AI ecosystem has been forming quietly: networks that don’t just consume data, but coordinate the people who produce, verify, and refine it. Most AI conversations focus on models, but anyone working close to the ground knows the harder problems live elsewhere in the supply chains that feed and validate those models. That’s where platforms like PublicAI made things tangible for me, not as an observer but as someone embedded in the loop. What PublicAI Sh...

An open-source TypeScript SDK that allows app developers to integrate DeFi functionality.

We're kicking off the year with our second traditional label release - Daniel Allan's new song with Liv Grace Blue called "Take Me Under". It marks a new chapter for Coop Recs where we're continuing to build out our label infrastructure to distribute songs across all DSPs and build out a wider catalog of masters that underpin everything we do. It comes in tandem with us starting to roll out more campaigns for clip.energy - our new clipping app which pays fans for posting videos from shows. It...

The consensus is forming fast. Nicky Sap's piece landed this week with a decisive verdict: "Even if the future of crypto is social, the future of social is clearly not crypto." Dan Romero announced Farcaster's pivot in December—wallet-first, trading infrastructure, "come for the tool, stay for the network." Two platforms, same retreat. The story seems settled: financialized social failed. I want to offer a different lens. Not because I think the consensus is wrong, but because I think it's in...

Building something new in 2026

IntroductionFangorn is programmable secrets infrastructure; the if statement for web3. It enables a trustless, extensible logic layer for encrypted data, where access is granted based on proof, not permission. There is no corporation-in-the-middle imposing policies, no server storing the password, and nobody who can usurp your own agency. This article walks you through our first demo: proof-of-knowledge-protected vaults built with LIT protocol (for secure decentralized key management), Noir (...

Imagine a man sitting in a dimly lit room, surrounded by influential figures, as a medium enters a trance and begins to speak in voices not her own. This isn't a scene from a sci-fi movie; it’s a real episode from the life of Gene Roddenberry, the visionary creator of Star Trek. In the 1970s, Roddenberry wasn’t just writing scripts to explore "the final frontier"; he was participating in channeling sessions that would inspire him to create a universe of interstellar peace and galactic federat...