I came across a tweet by Hayden Adams. I was going to say, chains are servers with just one superpower - strict global consensus, but hey, I’ve already written about that. So, instead, let’s examine Hayden’s claims.

It pains me to write a post about infra at a time when a complete and utter obsession around infra and degeneracy is crippling the blockchain industry while infra remains largely underutilized, but I’ll allow myself one post in a couple of months to clear away significant misconceptions.

Almost all DAOs that exist today operate like public companies: there’s a token, ownership and decision-making is derived by tokenholdings. Now, if the DAOs only purpose is to turn a profit for their tokenholders in addition to some CSR initiatives, this is perfectly fine. However, some DAOs may prefer to be more akin to a community, in which case a pure tokenholder DAO makes it a plutocracy where a few wealthy whales effectively control the DAO, which is the shittiest possible outcome for a community short of a non-benevolent dictatorship.

Markets are boring as sin and covered to the death, so I don’t really talk about it publicly. I’m intrigued by one thing though - when crypto goes through a secular bear market. Before we begin, let me just say that markets are dynamic, and anything can happen and probably will. I have less than 10% confidence in anything I say here, so please just see it as pure speculation and conjecture. None of this is meant to be prediction.

Do you have a place in your community where anyone can go, where all can access it? A space for growth and indiscriminate access.

A year ago, I wrote a post about Games and Blockchain. Admittedly, it was a reactionary post as I was pretty tired of the VC hype “A huge wave of AAA games will change the blockchain landscape in 6-12 months and onboard the next billion users”. I had first started writing about blockchain scaling on reddit in 2020, but no one really cared till I went bombastic and hyperbolic deliberately in mid-2021 - very much against my own nature - and it worked. So, having learned from that, I used some of the same tactics here. My main goal was to point out that a vast majority of traditional AAA games cannot and will not benefit from blockchain tech in anyway - particularly singleplayer games. A year later, a lot of that hype narrative has died away, so I can instead just focus on the optimistic parts of that post.

As my previous posts & tweets have mentioned, blockchain has no place in most single-player games. Any attempt at forcing it will be detrimental to the experience. But let’s try to brainstorm if there are any niches where it makes sense, at all?

In many ways, each Uniswap release has been a landmark and a signal for the progress of the application layer.

High gas costs suck. Today, Sound.xyz is excited to partner with the Optimism Collective to bring Sound to a Layer 2 introducing 90% reduction in gas cost.