Every new platform that comes around in tech has its unique qualities relative to what was possible before that platform, and they also inspire new behavior for end-users that also was not seen prior to that platform paradigm shift. An overview of all the previous platforms: The biggest behavior shift…

My conviction in Ethereum is forever. A lot of tourists in the crypto space speculate and leave, but my faith and conviction in Ethereum is unbreakable. Some might find this to be an “annoying maxi” statement, but I figured it might be interesting to share my personal story and the…

My understanding of the metaverse is the category of communities that are being created and born online-first, not offline-first. Traditional “non-metaverse” communities that we’re all familiar with might include the neighbors we live next to, the people we went to college or high school with, coworkers or our local Sunday…

Having been closely following the blockchain space since I graduated college in 2013, it’s been my observation that in today’s market the crypto space is no longer doubted as a useful technology and legitimate asset class. After the bubble burst in 2013, there was widespread consensus that Bitcoin would never…

We will be writing brief updates every week that report on development and adoption progress! We shipped a NFT with Qrion and pplpleasr: https://daofi.org/qloudplsr/ We wrote a contract that lets people redeem ERC-20 tokens for a ERC-721, because many of our buyers requested for this. Most users want to own…

DAOfi Update: We’re extremely excited to launch a 30 edition NFT by pplpleasr and Qrion today called QLOUDPLSR: https://daofi.org/qloudplsr/ It’s almost sold out at the time of publishing this letter and we’re really happy with the result! After launching several fractionalized NFTs, the predominant feedback from customers was that they…

DAOfi launched its first programmatic and fractionalized art piece yesterday and we’re extremely happy with some of the milestones we reached. The liquidity pool hit 100+ wETH in a few hours after trading, we received nothing but positive feedback about the art piece, and most importantly we feel it’s a…

Despite the explosion in NFT adoption we’ve seen in 2020 and 2021, there is still a lot of room for improvement with the buyer’s experience around NFT art and collectibles. The problems I see that have not been fully addressed yet include: Lack of liquidity in NFT secondary markets. The…

DeFi today has provided utility for a lot of the same use cases that CEXes have already validated, which includes spot trading, margin lending and leverage. Many DeFi startups today are building more specialized solutions for an already small demographic of advanced crypto users, and are not thinking about how…