HairDAO: where the theoretical benefits of DAOs turn into reality

10 Oct 2024

DAOs have promised a new type of Internet-native organisation that allows people from anywhere in the world, with just an Internet connection and a computer, to join and contribute to. In an age where everything is online, there is an opportunity to create a new type of organisation that isn’...

Singapore

25 Sep 2024

I just got back to London after spending a little over a week in Singapore. Although I’d visited once almost 20 years ago when I was a child, I didn’t remember much, so this trip felt like my first time there. It’s a city that has left...

Europe: at the heart of crypto

03 Sep 2024

Most major waves in information technology have been centred in the U.S. Breakthroughs in the internet, cloud computing, mobile, and AI, along with the influential companies that emerged from these developments, largely originated there. Crypto breaks that pattern. Entrepreneurial activity is not as concentrated in the US but is...

DeFi is real business

14 Aug 2024

DeFi is evolving from a set of financial toys into a sustainable financial system. In an industry like crypto, where new and shiny narratives tend to get prioritised over existing ones, this evolution can go unnoticed. However, in my opinion, it’s one of the most important and perhaps underrated...

Moderation and open social

20 Jun 2024

Content moderation remains one of the biggest challenges facing social media platforms today. Currently, decisions about what content is permitted and shown to individual users are made by the platforms themselves. These decisions are then enforced by closed source algorithms that shape the user experience on platforms like Twitter, Facebook,...