Taking control

15 Jun 2023

A trend among companies building products with NFTs is that they start off by taking custody of the NFTs for users. When NFTs are in the custody of users themselves, they truly own the asset, which means they can do with it whatever they want such as placing it for...

Strong opinions

18 May 2023

Akio Morita, the founder of Sony, once said: “Our [Sony] plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want. The public does not know what is possible but we do.” Sony established its position as one of the world’s...

Crypto needs more people digging for gold instead of building shovels

04 May 2023

A lot of the activity in crypto at the moment is centred around building and investing in infrastructure. On the one hand, building infrastructure for a new technology stack like crypto is needed for applications to emerge. A lot of important infrastructure has been built over the past few years...

MiCA, Europe's opportunity

11 Apr 2023

There’s a coordinated effort underway in the US by various regulators and government agencies to smother the crypto industry by cutting off its access to banking services. Nic Carter wrote a great piece that sheds light on what is happening. To say that the US is currently hostile towards...

Lean into the medium

30 Mar 2023

New technologies are tools that founders can use to build new products. The most impactful products are those that harness new technologies to create experiences previously not possible. Microsoft Excel was enabled by the processing power of personal computers while Google and Amazon were uniquely enabled by a network of...