Explore how unlearning shapes personal growth, ethical innovation, and sustainability—guided by Socratic wisdom and real-world challenges.

There’s been a lot of discourse about wallets in the past year. A lot of attention has been put into Smart Accounts, intents, and embedded wallets, and for developers, the tradeoffs between each provider and wallet type are really confusing.

TLDR :: What does the need for creative talent look like in the game industry? If we look to the past, we see three potential archetypes.

The three components of a persistent, credentialed, global education network.

Republic Venture Fellow & Associate Investment Thesis

Innovation in the way we learn is long overdue, so we’re building a hyperstructure for learning–a collection of crypto protocols that can run for free and forever and enable anyone to run novel, permissionless experiments in education. To do that, we’ll build learning experiences, identify shared primitives, protocolize them, rinse, and repeat. Our first experiment is to build a community of educators and domain experts to rapidly author web3-native self-guided and cohort-based learning around timely topics. We’ll funnel the resultant bootstrapped insights and treasury into developing protocols and generating new experiments.

In this series, we will discuss blockchain literacies. Part 1 is an overview. We will explore the following key ideas:

D.A.O.s have hardened their voting systems. The Quorums have gotten lower and the whales who vote accumulate more. Rather than speed running the history of governance, we have perpetuated the norms of a late stage republican democracy (the long way of saying plutocratic & oligarchic). This article looks to shake that up. 

Digital Artists are rarely rewarded with intellectual property ownership. The blockchain may provide an alternative.