“This is the most fun I had onchain in a long time”  — creators and users of BasePaint.

Last week, Zora announced that anyone can now create for free on Zora, all on independently owned smart contracts. Content would be brought onchain through a clever lazy-minting model, where the first minter pays the gas to mint a token.

In the future, fashion and commerce will be phygital (no matter how much you hate the word). It could look a little like this:

Two years ago, at 1kx, we started to expand our focus into consumer investing.

reify. verb. the turning of something abstract into a concrete thing or object

Why onchain games are a leading indicator for where crypto is headed, and the hottest news, games, and content from the last week in onchain gaming.

A free mint for the subscribers:

In 1996, John Perry Barlow wrote "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace", a poetic proclamation of victory in the battle for a free and open web; an affirmation of what the internet could mean both socially and politically. It was an important piece of internet history that still resonates today. But just a decade later, platforms like Facebook began their rise to power and the vision for an open, semantic web was quickly forgotten in favor of something as benign as an easy to use "like" button within a social walled-garden.

Spotlight curates ideas and experiments worth collecting. Every two weeks, the Forefront community curates a new capsule in an effort to highlight great work and support creators publishing onchain.