Having a token brings a community together loosely with a financial stake, but composable membership holds a community together long term with social capital. That's a lot of buzzwords, so let’s explore this in three parts:

Welcome! I’m assuming you’re a data analyst who is new to web3, starting to build your web3 analytics team, or have just taken an interest in web3 data in general. Either way, you should already be loosely familiar with how APIs, databases, transformations…

By now, you’ve probably heard about cryptocurrencies. The word crypto seems inescapable: it creeps up in dinner conversations with friends, when complaining about the seemingly never-ending inflation, and in podcasts you listen to every day. 

Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed a meteoric rise in the power of decentralized community-building. In a crypto-native, ownership-first era, users are opting to spend their time in digital places that offer not just a better user experience, but more…

​​This is the ninth of a series of 12 discrete stories about how a variety of web3 projects (ranging from crowd-funding platforms and NFTs to DeFi and gaming) have approached decentralized community building. You can read an aggregated overview of insights…

Identity, Privacy, Interoperability & Agency in Emerging Digital Worlds

When I first started paying attention to crypto, one of the first things I kept asking questions about was why I should care about decentralization. As I’ve gained conviction and knowledge, I wanted to write an easy-to-understand piece as a resource for all…

Crashes aren’t only painful because of price declines, although it’s never fun to see your account balances slashed relentlessly, day after day. Crashes are also painful because belief drains from the market as quickly as cash does. And those who never believed…

We embarked on a research journey to understand how we could meaningfully define DAO communities and assess their health. This article is a short summary of our findings.

A deep dive into ownership of online assets, the centralization of web2 social media platforms, algorithm fatigue, advertiser monopolization and web3 + many memes

By Saffron Huang & Josh Stark

how the web3 transformation will occur in the media space, where it is most interesting, and why it might matter to you.

A sustainable compensation model can be a make-or-break for DAOs trying to retain and onboard contributors, especially in a bear market.

For billions of people around the globe, Web3 represents an opportunity to realize a vibrant new digital world — one that isn’t designed and controlled by a handful of executives in the glass towers of primarily Western megacities.

From the coast of Canaan, a great many longships cast off towards the Western waters of the Mediterranean. Eventually, they would pass the pillars of Hercules and venture into the waters of the Atlantic, conducting trade and settlement with the West African…

Media in web3 is the meta-container for everything related to the DAO or Tokenized Community’s narrative network effect.

The following post offers an excerpt of a methodology has been developed in the course of my research to conduct ethnography in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). These questions, first identified in this post on ‘DAO Design Patterns’, have becoming…

This post will explore the tokenization of communities and ‘X-to-earn’ of leading protocols such as Axie Infinity, StepN, and RabbitHole. In doing so, we will understand the culture of these protocols to identify what makes a sustainable and ideal x-to-earn…

Let's start by talking about super contributors.

Tokens are incredibly powerful incentive mechanisms, and power corrupts.

Welcome to this multi-part series, in which we’ll explore why tokens are so powerful, how things can go awry, and what can be done about it.