Social Web 3
The next generation of the social internet: indexing addresses not pages, horizontal vs vertical relevance, identifiers-as-a-service and ZK attestations that make Web 3 socially relevant.
Improving Community Distribution
Why airdrops are bad customer acquisition, and how warrants, continuous distribution and gamified KPI-based emissions create better protocol incentive alignment.
The Bridges Are Dead, Long Live The Bridges!
The case for Generalized Messaging Protocols over token bridges: architectures of Axelar, Abacus, Nomad, LayerZero, Wormhole, XCMP, IBC and Chainflip, plus cross-chain app use cases.
Web 3 Middleware
A bottoms-up map of the Web 3 middleware stack: storage, data models, indexers, access controls and integration platforms, and how they fit together to power next-gen apps.
A Lot Of On-Chain Options, But Few To Exercise
A deep dive into the on-chain options landscape: the trends, the pain points, and what could be built to make the products work.
Infrastructure Lego: The Middleware Thesis
Zee Prime’s original middleware thesis: why DeFi has outrun its infrastructure, what crypto middleware is, and a deep dive into Pocket Network as a decentralization-as-a-service lego.
Ohmies Ain’t No Normies
On OlympusDAO’s ambition to build a floating, asset-backed reserve currency without a peg: a third type of crypto money beyond commodity coins and dollar stablecoins.
Why Did You Kill Andre?
A Girardian reading of crypto: $YFI, Andre Cronje and the scapegoat mechanism, with Satoshi, Vitalik and Andre cast as divine kings sacrificed so the narrative can be reborn.