So much commentary going around re $luna collapse, but would love to connect with any other #researchers interested to probe connections between algo stables and the dramatic explosion of computerized portfolio insurance in the 1980s: bit.ly/39mmdpo

In the wake of Luna, should the crypto industry begin to self-regulate towards something like FDIC, even if it means limiting upside for users?

Good morning! We are excited to announce our AMA Twitter Space with Random Walk NFT🦇🔊 🎉 It will be hosted by Mike Maizels PhD 🔥 Tune in 1pm PST on May 19th!

Please join me and the Random Walk NFT🦇🔊 team this afternoon!

🎉Unveiling the newest DeFi Base Camp teams with New Order🎉Welcome to the OV network!🧵👇 Bright Union 🇳🇱 @diversi_fi 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 @IdentDeFi 🇺🇸 @LazyTrade_io 🇬🇧 OBEYme 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @LabsSumeria 🇹🇼🇺🇸 Full announcement👉 ov.click/twthbcdfq2 eden JB #metaverse

Great feature this morning from Decentral Park Capital on the proposed EIP-4844 $eth upgrade. Early example of "Modular Blockchain Architecture" separating functions like State, Execution, and Data Availability at the client level. Use cases abound!

Watch this development: comprehensive #crypto #legislation put forward by bipartisan senate coauthors (and two women to boot). But notice the negative spin in the headline... Cynthia Lummis 🦬 Kirsten Gillibrand POLITICO politi.co/3x2droI

#themerge passed a major milestone today. Watch this space for the future of every $eth and beyond bit.ly/3Q5alcp

the ratio on the SEC chairman's tweets is absolutely fascinating - 10x replies to likes or shares what does that tell you?

🎉 Partnership with @ZumerProtocol We are delighted to announce that the Zumer protocol has integrated DIA's #NFT Floor Price oracle to power the #liquidity protocol for NFTs. → Learn more: medium.com/dia-insights/p…

bit.ly/3yrmikw Fascinating take from Slate magazine on the intersections between Faith in Bitcoin and American Christianity--"X to Earn" is coming as the next chapter of Weber's Protestant Work Ethic

Now Available: "Collecting the Now" by Michael Maizels Mike Maizels PhD explores how dealers and artists made pop art fine. Find it at: bit.ly/3Rt5zGf.

Proud of the Sumeria team!

Delight to announce that I will be speaking at the ACM SIGCHI Human Computer Interaction Conference on Friday along with my colleague Zilin Ma at Harvard. We will be presenting our work on crowd coordination and DAO governance, which recently received a grant from Uniswap Foundation

1/ Over the last couple months, the predominant emotion driving the crypto market was fear and recently that's changed to apathy. As we reflect on the macro, below is a glimpse of what to expect when crypto markets turn apathetic, through a few different lenses:

We are excited to welcome a key addition to the Adim team, Mike Maizels 👋! Mike is joining Adim as our Interim Head of Research and will be taking an academic lens to many of the problems we are trying to tackle with Adim across the unit economics of creative production.

"Arte Programmata provides a nuanced, incisive window into the ways in which artists grappled with arrival of computing technology in postwar Italy." New in review, Mike Maizels PhD on Lindsay Caplan's Arte Programmata, from U of MN Press: