What if the most expensive substance in the world is not gold, oil, or data — but water? Not H₂O, but the “water” spoken of in the Bible: that which leads humanity out of the desert of meaning and into knowledge. This article is not a pitch for a job, nor a typical NFT drop. It is an attempt to sell a glass of biblical water as an NFT — a formulation of knowledge hidden in plain sight. Ancient texts, linguistic resonance, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and a deliberately mistranslated biblical phrase

The stock index provider announced that it will retain Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) companies in its Global Standard Indexes.

ZABAL Season 2 is now live. Season 2 marks the next phase of ZABAL as an open coordination network for builders working at the intersection of creativity, technology, and on-chain systems. The focus remains the same: participation, alignment, and building in public.

Today was intentionally simple. Travel days don’t leave much room for heroics, and I didn’t try to force any. The main objective was to get from point A to point B without chaos, and to use the in-between moments to tighten up what needed to be ready before I go quiet for a bit.

Executive summaryPower is potential—capacity waiting to be released. For nearly four decades, I've studied how that capacity operates, building on Steven Lukes' three dimensions: coercion (visible), agenda-setting (hidden), and preference-shaping (invisible). Each explains how the powerful secure compliance. But all three assume a stable subject whose interests can be specified. This brief proposes a fourth dimension: paradigmatic power—the constitution of what is thinkable. At this level, th...

All long-running fictional universes inevitably converge on an AI singularity. If a setting allows for compounding progress and automation, cognition eventually collapses in on itself. It appears to be universal and unavoidable. To continue the story, fiction authors must employ metering devices or apocalyptic events to reverse the singularity and recenter the story on humans. They have to do this because a singularity, by definition, is a point beyond which you cannot project or predict. The...

a token isn’t just a ticker. it’s not just a number on a screen or a moment on crypto twitter. it’s a promise. a system. a living agreement between a creator and a community. when we launch tokens without intention (without planning, without clarity, without care) we don’t just risk bad tokenomics. we risk breaking trust. this piece is about slowing down. about designing tokens as infrastructure, not hype. about funding real work, real teams, and real communities in ways that feel aligned, tr...

Happy New Year from the Bass Station Team! It's only fitting that we use 2026 to do something fresh. 3 shows lined up, 1 each month. And we kick off January with some heavy hitters. Our headliners Mutt & Kelmo finish off a slick night of B2Bs that will make you forget all about the winter cold. Both artists have released on the biggest labels that our scene has to offer, and here you've got a chance to see them spin up close. We've also got a Toronto debut for Sedition, with Toronto heavyweig...

Mirrored Reflections streets glow like they’re meant for two midnight waits ahead you keep showing up in every passing couple I keep pretending you’re beside me downtown glass catches a shape I almost call yours matching my pace no one notices me stop walking hands almost brushing even the countdown feels like it’s for someone else the pineapple countdown above, nothing below you would’ve laughed at the cold just me moving through reflections hoping one of them turns around