As someone who considers themselves a builder and a little more than a crypto enthusiast, it is awes me when I hear others speak of the promise of a digital utopia where decentralized finance and organizations have managed to win the hearts and minds of society’s masses while demonstrating a truly ubiquitous level of impenetrable security and democracy to offer us a world free from the shackles of traditional financial systems. To many today still though, these promises sound almost too good to be true.

Blockchain, or Web3 as it's increasingly known, certainly makes for an intriguing landscape. Like myself, perhaps you arrived for the party and found it so engaging that you decided to stick around, even in the face of the inevitable hangover. I recently had an insightful chat with a former Marketing DAO member associated with a Layer-1 blockchain. Much like me, he was introspectively analyzing lessons learned from the previous bull run, all the while trying to carve out his place in the current bear market with his decentralised aspirations.

I’ve been very lax at my web3 world writing, the last few months have had me in survival mode, both due to the bear market fallout and some personal circumstances. But I love writing, and I’m hoping by joining this energetic community of like minded, writing oriented collleagues, I get back on track building my habit for writing here. I’d love any feedback over the next few weeks that makes this content better for you as a reader, and helps improve my style as a writer. Of course, buying the NFT as a show of support is always helpful too, but I’ll continue to give freely to the community as I have in the past. WIsh me luck on this venture. If you’ve got a topic you’d be keen to hear about, please mention it to me on Twitter as well.

Goal: Achieving decentralisation for source control, eventually aim is moving away from Github

Firstly, this is not financial advice. Do you own research. I am excited about blockchain and its emerging applications as an innovation maximalist, and am sharing this as I really like the Lofty.ai product and wrote about this recently. This is more of an update with some of the more recent additions to their platform which I see lining up the pieces for the Algorand ecosystem to encourage broader usage by traditional retail investors in more than just a traditional investments packaged to work with tokenised assets.

Disclaimer: This is not financial advice, I am not a financial advisor. Always Do Your Own Research before investing in anything blockchain related or not. I am an innovation maximalist and avid software developer, and I find blockchain development and projects within the space especially intriguing, and I write about them both as a user and someone trying to grok the intricacies of how existing and novel applications are living in a blockchain, and hopefully build a few of these myself.

There’s just too much going by too fast to digest in real time, so here’s my running list of links Sherif shared tonight for later exploration:

I wanted to see what other blockchains were like for app development experiences, so I have been waking up at 1am nightly for the past few days to participate in the Encode Club’s NEAR bootcamp. The videos are published on their YouTube channel, if you’re keen to take a look.

As someone new to Web3 development, but coming with many years of experience in tech and the Web2 world, I wanted to get all the pieces in place for innovating on a new idea, without losing steam for my idea from the usual pain of manual setup. That process in itself is good for grokking, but the creative energy surround that “aha” idea should be spent proving a thesis by building a quick MVP or POC of the idea, not the repeatable boilerplate infrastructure required to get that idea actioned. scaffold-eth is a project I have started experimenting with since I have been seeing it for awhile, and after one of the more recent videos with its creator, Austin Griffith, a very energetic and really smart dude who always gets me excited by him being excited, I decided to dive in. It’s been very promising, there is alot to unpack, as there are many branches with alot of starters for specific use cases. Right now I’m starting with the main branch, as I explore I’ll write more on this