This short checklist is related to essays exploring market cycles. Check it out - maybe it will give you confidence to lean in. (for that secret announcement scroll to the end) Technology Cycles and The Anti-FOMO Playbook (Charlota Perez) And then: Tech and Financial Cycles Map on Today - From Gartner to Kondratiev's Waves and Dalio's Debt Cycles...

Key TakeawaysPayments impose different infrastructure requirements than trading or general computation, prioritizing predictability, consistency, and operational simplicity.General-purpose blockchains introduce structural uncertainty through fee volatility, shared blockspace contention, and variable settlement behavior.Stablecoin-native settlement streamlines the payment lifecycle by aligning on-chain execution with off-chain accounting, reducing operational complexity and enhancing efficienc...

Imagine this.You own a stack of rare Pokémon cards. First editions. PSA graded. Valuable. You know they’re going up in value over time.Now imagine this twist: 👉 You don’t sell them 👉 You don’t give them to a bank 👉 You don’t pay interest 👉 You don’t have payment terms 👉 And you never lose ownership Instead, you place those Pokémon cards into a time-locked, on-chain vault. While they sit safely inside:Their value can increaseYou still own themNo one can touch themNo one can rehypothecate ...

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Greetings, Trailblazers! Season 6 featured two tracks: The Arena and The Undercity. Trailblazers competed across both, and now it’s time to reap the rewards. Claims are officially open. https://trailblazers.taiko.xyz/claim The Process This season followed our established framework. We completed Sybil checks and internal reviews to finalize the rankings. Trailblazers also had the opportunity to distinguish themselves through the Trailblazer role on Guild. However, because Guild significantly c...

Our favorite yellow BizarreBeasts: Catz, Louie, is back with a brand new BIZARRE adventure! Louie's Food Fling combines satisfying slingshot physics, endless rolling hills, and a sky full of neon clouds and hand-illustrated munchies. Plus, we have a flinging competition going on this week on the BizarreBeasts ($BB) miniapp!The Gameplay: Launch, Surf, and SoarPull back on Louie like a slingshot and watch him soar across a neon landscape, through glowing clouds, and up into the stars if you get...

One of the ways that cities determine where they should spend money and invest is through something known as Participatory Budgeting. The birthplace of this approach is generally thought to be Porto Alegre in Brazil, which first adopted it in 1989. Since then, it has become a mainstream practice and spread to cities all around the world, including New York and Paris, both of which operate ambitious programs. In the case of Paris, they have committed 5% of their capital budget to be spent in t...

I spent 3 hours on a pointless todo list, then one-shot a bot in 30 minutes. There's a lesson here that surprised even me. TL'DR: Track new wallets!

NFT article Participants: * Iraklii Nadiradze (Irakli): CEO & Founder of Progress Motion Digital & Web, TekoraLab Events. * Roman Luka (Roman): Journalist, Interviewer. About the TekoraLab Concept Roman: Iraklii, hello! We met at a previous event where you spoke about your plans to create a community. You are actively working on it now. Tell me, is this a local story for Georgia, or is it something that unites people globally? Iraklii: Hi! In short, TekoraLab is both an event agency and a com...

THE DIAGNOSIS: THE PRISON OF MATERIALITYWe reject the premise of modern politics. The true enemy of liberty is not the State, but the Biosphere.The Tyranny of Biology: We claim to be free, yet we are slaves to the metabolic tax of hunger, the chemical coercion of instinct, and the inevitable execution of death.The Scarcity Trap: Liberty is mathematically impossible in a finite physical world where two bodies cannot occupy the same space.The Great Deception: Society (The Great Beast) offers "C...