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The Tinkering Society

The Tinkering Society

We’re builders and thinkers on a mission to further develop the crypto ecosystem through protocol research and incubation.
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Islands

The crossover between blockchain and AI seems to inspire more derision than usual from Crypto X/Twitter. I think this is largely due to the void of implemented use cases surrounding them. There’s an air of magical thinking about combining the two technologies that has a multiplying effect on any apprehension.
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Market Perspective: November

A new bull market has arrived!
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The Thing

Regulatory concerns and influencer chaos look to be tightening a noose around the industry’s neck. With chilling whispers of Halloween around the corner, it’s time to face fears and talk about decentralized on- and off-ramps (DOORs) and how we onboard the world.
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Snakes & Ladders

Web3 teams vying for growth in a downtrend tend to pull out a playbook that was forged in an up-only market. Airdrops were once seen as a path to hacking progress in the traction game, but as an incentive model they arguably now create more harm than good.
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Petrichor

RWAs have been pitched as one of those ideas to herald in the next bull run. But are they a fix-all and will the future truly be tokenized? With the bera market skimming away hype daily, now is the time to take an honest look at RWAs and understand why world domination shouldn’t be the endgame.
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OnlyFrenz

Friend.Tech is divisive.
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DeSoc, Decoded

Owning a social media account right now is a little like selling your soul.
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Who Will Control the Narratives?

Freedom and privacy advocates have been long aware of the growing state influence over news organizations and social media.
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Impact

I remember at university researching the teachers before enrolling in classes and being surprised by how useless some of their published research was, especially in the Arts.