Where Ideas Thrive

Grow your audience & earnings — one post at a time.

Paragraph mobile interface shown on an iPhone screen

Why Paragraph?

Paragraph makes it easy to publish your ideas, reach readers everywhere, and unlock new opportunities to earn directly from your work.

Earn, one post at a time

New ways for writers to earn, beyond paywalls & ads.

Reach more readers

Grow your audience by sharing seamlessly across social & more.

Own your audience & writing

No more platform-dependent followers - readers can subscribe via email or wallet.

Ideas that matter

Read the voices driving today's most important conversations.

From crypto to cooking, & everything in between

Discover what writers, thinkers, and storytellers are talking about today.

Trending on Paragraph

The most interesting writing curated by our team.

Ignite your next idea

We're building a future where the internet's best ideas thrive through a value system that rewards quality, not clickbait.

No paywalls. No subscription treadmills. Just great ideas that earn what they're worth.

Paragraph collector dialog showing how readers can collect a post

Copyright © 2025 Paragraph Technologies Inc. All rights reserved.

Privacy Policy Terms of Use Content Guidelines

Some of the Things

A collection of essays and reflections spanning crypto, tech, entrepreneurship, parenting, wellness, spirituality, and travel—now featuring all posts from my substack newsletter, Some of the Things.

Read publication

Discover card cover image

Five Young Players To Watch This Season

Last year, we made a list of five young players we thought would go on to have breakout seasons at their respective clubs, and it was... well, a mixed bag. With predictions like Tino Livramento and Dean Huijsen, we were absolutely spot on as both players went on to have fantastic seasons, with the latter even earning a summer move to Real Madrid. However, with predictions like Wilson Odobert, and, to a lesser extent, Archie Gray, we were not as right as we'd thought. We still don't have a cry...

Discover card cover image

How To: Choose Lunch I & II

# How To: Choose Lunch ## Prelude to 'The Tuna' Hello, friends. I've been a bit quieter through 2025 than most would except, myself included. But, I got tired of talking all the time and wanted to figure out how to walk. Most things I am trying to say have been said, in better ways than I can say them. Like how Sir Robert Hall III, the artist sometimes known as Logic, opens his 6th studio album (which is technically his 9th studio album, his 13th collected work): [Narration: Orson Welles & *L...

Discover card cover image

Introducing $JRA and Jaytwyne Abrams

$JRA loyalty coin: 0xf37d0e4ea93aca7e0d3afa9df2a7774cf5bdd583🔗 Join the Discord to be the first to know tomorrow's CA.Our next creator reveal is Jaytwyne Abrams. When we first met Jaytwyne Abrams, he talked about how everything started after high school. He didn’t have a plan or a path to follow. He just knew he wanted to create something. Out of that came an idea to start posting videos every day. Posting every day became his way to stay focused and keep improving. He started recording on h...

Discover card cover image

Reward your token holders and drive protocol growth

Well-designed incentives and staking programs attract aligned token holders who add value to your protocol. Tally provides a complete, modular staking solution—open-source smart contracts and a ready-to-use interface that makes participation effortless. Deploy reward programs and staking systems tailored to your protocol's needs without building infrastructure from scratch. Protocols use Tally's incentives and staking solution to return protocol revenue to token holders, reward long-term comm...

WHAT DAY OF YOUR LIFE IS TODAY? I write that number down next to the day’s date whenever I write in my morning journal. It’s an easy way to keep life in perspective. Over the years, whenever I go a while between journal entries, I need to look that number up again. I feel like it’s always a different site, and I’ve never found one I particularly liked, so yesterday I decided to make one myself. What day of your life is today? Find out now @ dayof.life

Discover card cover image

Mosaic of thoughts

In praise of discomfort

The sky outside the windows is covered in thick grey, making it impossible to tell with certainty whether it's 11 am or 4 pm. The wind moves the trees back and forth in a staccato dance, occasionally, thrusting a branch around in the air. The raindrops bslown against the window glass paint an abstract work of art. In short, it's the epitome of North German weather, the kind everyone tells you is the reason for North Germans' inner coldness and lack of humour (both of which I'd refute). It's c...

Discover card cover image

BizarreBeasts ($BB)

BizarreBeasts Acheives 1st Place in DCP Base Creator Grant!

I am going absolutely BIZARRE and deeply honored to announce that BizarreBeasts achieved the #1 ranking in the Decentralized Pictures (DCP) Award for Base Creators, an onchain grant supporting innovative artists! Check out the Official DCP Announcement! This award is a huge win for the entire BizarreBeasts community! While the Top 3 projects all received the $1,000 in production funding prize, we are incredibly proud that our vision, dedication, and community engagement were recognized by DCP...

Discover card cover image

Trust Me Bro Show

Prediction Markets: The Onchain PMF?

Alright mates, it is late October 2025, and prediction markets are making a roaring comeback. From Polymarket and Kalshi to Farcaster mini apps like Ponder and Bracket, everyone is betting on what happens next, literally.

Discover card cover image

Brandon Donnelly

Rizzo's House of Parm

About 35 minutes south of Project Bench is a waterfront community on Lake Erie called Crystal Beach. And within Crystal Beach is a restaurant owned by celebrity chef Matty Matheson called Rizzo's House of Parm. This is a Niagara Region restaurant that has been on our team's list since it opened in 2022, but we've just never been able to make it work — until yesterday. If you're in the mood for some Italian-American comfort food and are somewhat proximate, I would definitely recommend it. The ...

Discover card cover image

Ethereum Institutional Resource Hub

The EF Enterprise Acceleration team released a new site tracking Ethereum institutional adoption, highlighting real-world use cases.

Discover card cover image

Some of the Things

Don't Compare Yourself to Others

Dear Friends, When I was in my early twenties, I came across a short passage with some life advice. I have zero recollection of where it came from or who wrote it. All I know is I saved it by emailing it to myself, and over the years I’ve reread it and shared it with friends more times than I can count. Here it is:Don’t concern yourself with being better than everyone else. That will mainly get you resentment, disappointment, or both. Focus instead on being better today than you were yesterda...

Discover card cover image

Decentralized Pictures

Meet the 10 Awardees for the DCP Base Creators Award!

To celebrate Decentralized Pictures’ migration to Base – a milestone that unlocks new creative possibilities for artists and storytellers around the world – we launched an award that provides direct support to emerging creators of all disciplines who are building the future of creativity onchain. The DCP Award for Base Creators is officially closed, and we're thrilled to announce our ten awardees! These creators stood out among the crowd for their bold ideas, distinct voices, and Web3-savvy s...

Discover card cover image

Introducing $ZAY and Xavier Sellers

$ZAY loyalty coin CA: 0x26095fbf2a0f8332408198e7a89b7d54fae19bb7🔗 Join the Discord to be the first to know tomorrow's CA.We're excited to reveal our first Cohort 3 ceator, Xavier Sellers. When we first spoke to him, he was in Atlanta, talking about how he comes up with ideas. He spends time scrolling, saving what catches his attention, and writing notes until something clicks. Then he picks up his phone and records. There is no big production setup. It is just him, a thought, and a moment th...

Discover card cover image

The Corporate Polycule

Hey! We’re taking a break from livestreaming this week but in the meantime you can catch up on last week’s stream through the clip below, where we consider our place in the permanent underclass. escaping the permanent underclass with @pridesai — Boys Club™ (@BoysClubWorld) 3:47 PM • Oct 23, 2025Warmest Regards, The Boys Writer: Deana Editor: Miranda Say GOODBYE to seed phrases with Bitkey, a Bitcoin wallet. Use code BOYSCLUB20 for a discount on your Bitkey.Western Union “Embraces Crypto.” I’m...

Discover card cover image

Brandon Donnelly

Does quality of life have to decline as a city grows?

When it comes to cities, quality of life is a subjective measure. Some people may prefer a small city where homes are more affordable and commute times are negligible, while others may find the unique amenities of a big city more appealing — enough to outweigh the negatives. Whatever the exact case, there are some obvious negatives that come with urban scale. The usual suspects are high housing costs, traffic congestion, noise and pollution, crime and safety concerns, and the list goes on. Bu...

Discover card cover image

Fusaka Activates On Hoodi Testnet

The Fusaka upgrade successfully activated on the Hoodi testnet, setting the stage for Fusaka on Ethereum mainnet in December.

Discover card cover image

BuildBetter by BFG

The Zero-Sum Future of Tokenized Everything

This post is a bit different than my usual "get better at distribution" ranting, but important nonetheless. It's about choices and the future. There’s a dangerous idea spreading quietly across the Web3 and internet — one that hides beneath the language of innovation, empowerment, and progress. It’s the belief that everything should be tokenized. Art, writing, images, music. Then houses, data, reputation, even time. Every human activity reduced to a tradable unit of value. At first glance, it ...

Discover card cover image

Dark Star Crashes

The Myth of “Ads Are Bad”

The “ads are bad” narrative became cultural dogma, repeated so long it hardened into truth. But most people grew up with ads. They see them as the background cost of access, the stream that funds participation. If anything, people are more frustrated by paywalls than prerolls.

Discover card cover image

Base Engineering Blog

Scaling Base: Doubling capacity in 30 days

TL;DR: We’re continuing to scale Base to serve as a platform for the global economy. By the end of 2025, our goals are to double Base Chain’s gas limit, improve client performance, and expand L1 data availability to meet growing demand while maintaining sub-cent transaction fees.

Discover card cover image

EPL GW9: Winners And Losers

There is no better way to show the absolute madness and sheer unpredictability of the Premier League this season than to show you what the top four teams on the league table are after gameweek 9.So, without further ado, here are the winners and the losers from a weekend of twists and turns.Winners: Unai EmeryAston Villa's manager needed a great result against Manchester City badly. His team had gone on a five game winning run and seemed to be putting their shaky start to the season behind the...