“I don’t believe we shall ever have good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of the government. We can’t do so violently—all we can do is, by some sly roundabout way, introduce something that they can’t stop.” — Friedrich Hayek

p5 . botto and what's next Like parents guiding a young child, the DAO members collectively shape Botto's artistic development. While Botto has primarily worked with txt2img models, the DAO has long envisioned expanding Botto's creative horizons into different mediums as AI

Bye, bye SAB 121! It's not been fun: SEC.gov | Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 122

Tokens shouldn’t be listed, they should be blacklisted. At Blockaid we’ve been powering malicious token detection for leading wallets and DeFi protocols so they can list every safe token immediately. Excited to see coinbase continue to pioneer!

The best part of my job at Variant? Working with early-stage founders. Marketing at this stage is more important than you think —it drives awareness, hiring, community building, partnerships, and more. But let’s be real: it can also feel overwhelming. So, let’s simplify. 🧵

Agent devs need to grapple with the general rule crypto devs have had to deal with for years now: Custody user funds = increased liability risk Why? Control is the law’s lodestar for finding liability Two issues immediately come to mind

Announcing Syndicate Chain—And The Path to a Community Owned Internet Today, we're excited to announce the development of Syndicate Chain to horizontally scale Ethereum and build a community-owned internet. The private testnet for Syndicate Chain is now live. ↓

1/ The SEC has officially rescinded SAB 121! This is a big change that will make it easier for banks to handle crypto. Here's what it means for institutional crypto adoption and staking!👇

DAO 2.0 Product Ideas 1/ New Community/Gov Tools + DAO 2.0 launcher: platform enables launching new community/governance tokens tied to an agent, agent responds to tokenholder votes, reads discussion forums and generates proposals (where agent will execute with a time delay and

Syndicate and Alchemy are joining forces. Syndicate Chain will be integrated with Alchemy's rollup infrastructure to enable teams to deploy highly scalable, community-owned rollups—with enterprise-grade throughput, reliability, and customization options.

In a world where attention is scarce @Farcade_AI has that secret sauce. s/o to Blackstock and chuckstock. Is anyone on my level?

Announcing the Open Intents Framework ✨ Ecosystem-wide interop, accelerated by 30+ teams from all corners of Ethereum. A modular, open framework to make it seamless for any chain to get intents into the hands of users & improve cross-chain UX. ➡️ openintents.xyz

New article unpacks the unique liability considerations for agent developers. TLDR: agents introduce complexity but there are some common sense measures developers can take to reduce their liability exposure. Graphic below summarizing that. Check out the piece here:

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One way to look at NFTs is that they are valuable because they allow digital property to reflect features we associate with property in the physical world. Think about owning a house. When you buy the house, you get a deed, which provides provenance via a chain of title. As the

Variant Thesis: Ownership as keystone of user experience, bootstraps networks bigger faster. Works best when: 1) There is a moral/normative imperative—a movement that people want to participate in. Skin in the game enhances belief, resulting in a more exciting/engaged

Good crypto x AI projects leverage the features of crypto to overcome limitations faced by AI. Here are three examples of challenges of AI: 1. Resources. To be competitive as an AI company you need to aggregate significant resources (compute and data) and talent. 2.

I’ve joined Variant as an investor. I know personally how much of a rollercoaster the founder experience can be and I’m thrilled to be a part of an organization designed to support people through it. A few thoughts on my journey here and what I’m excited about.

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