in the not too distant future, you'll be onchain without knowing you're onchain. this is the first step, but it will expand well beyond selective private markets. when, not if. the real question is whether this is driven by new entrants, native incumbents or big tech.

alignment and conviction = cohesion regardless of the company you’re building, this is incredibly important. without it, you’ll quickly get pulled in 1,000 different ways. you’ll make inconsistent decisions. your team will start to fracture. i’ve seen it all firsthand

Announcing the GENESIS HUNT A two week activation in partnership with OKX / OKX Wallet where we'll be raffling 500 whitelist spots for the Irys Genesis NFT. Take care of something. Watch it grow. Get rewarded for your attention. That's the simple idea that serves as the basis

just got back from the Irys (✧ᴗ✧) leadership offsite and the vision is clearer than ever deep conviction in the team and where we’re headed time to make it a reality. let’s cook

the data monetization space is broken. procurement takes ages, pricing is opaque, and some teams aren't even aware that they're sitting on a trove of value. this week i had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friend Freeman Lewin, to discuss his take on how to fix all of

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gm. feels like a good day to build infrastructure to preserve human knowledge forever

“protocol tester” is my new favorite framing for “airdrop farmer”

i’m often asked to speak to the differences between Irys (✧ᴗ✧) and ipfs the tldr is that irys offers: ✦ faster retrieval ✦ programmability ✦ data monetization ✦ efficient discoverability ✦ verifiability via aligned incentives DMac (✧ᴗ✧) does an incredible job providing

first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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The White House just called data a 'national strategic asset'. Is it obvious how valuable data is yet? If it isn't, it will be soon.

been heads down working on [redacted] and [redacted] but recording a few pods i'm really excited about

disruptive technologies are dismissed as toys because early on, they tend to “undershoot” user needs or come off as impractical for global adoption. from a protocol perspective, http and smtp are good examples here. just like what these protocols did for browsers or emails,

23 million spritetype site visits this month. y’all are insane

like it or not, tradfi still has major influence on crypto. and this week is a big one. we have: ✧ us gdp: 3% (slightly hot) ✧ fomc today, prob no cut, but powell nodding to september ✧ treasury upping debt buybacks by 27% ✧ india hit with 25% tariffs ✧ meta & microsoft

it's so over. crypto's dead. short-term tariffs and the recent US job market revisions killed the industry. honestly, just ignore the fact that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's project crypto is arguably the most pro-crypto stance ever taken by a regulator. who cares that the genius act & clarity