This (frankly, very unacceptably) long overdue post is a belated announcement of the termination of cycle_dao as a named neuron and a swansong to what was a pretty cool experiment in group governance. Please read and comment on Nuance Introduction The individual members of the cycle_dao team have too much…

This is one of a series of posts that have been sitting in a perpetually open Chrome window on my desktop for the last 4 months. It was intended to be published in the context of some other ideas. However, when I have raised the thoughts contained here to people…

This post is intended to be the first of several breaking down the biases and assumptions in the way we think about DeFi. This is done by examining the platforms that power DeFi alongside observable human behaviour. …

Thursday, the 28th of June, 2018, Dominic Williams, Chief Scientist and Founder of DFINITY, Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder of Polychain Capital, Ed Knight, Chief Regulatory Officer of Nasdaq, and Kathryn Haun, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, participated in two panel discussions at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. This panel was an opportunity…

Thursday, the 28th of June, 2018, the DFINITY team met at the Nasdaq Entrepreneur Center to support Dominic Williams, Chief Scientist and founder of DFINITY, while he participated in two panel discussions. One panel featured Olaf Carson-Wee, Founder of Polychain Capital, and another with Ed Knight, Chief Regulatory Officer of…

In October 2017, prior to becoming Director of Communications, I visited the DFINITY hacker house to spend time with the ever growing team and learn a bit more about what was going on inside the project. This small segment is cut together from interviews filmed with several team members that…

Firstly, thank you for the ongoing support. As we quickly approach the beginning of our public pre sale, we’re seeing the intense drive within the DFINITY team mirrored by the community online. In light of recent hacks, data breaches, and scams targeting various blockchain groups, we want to remind the…

The founders of Attores, Gorang Torvekar and David Moskowitz discuss their notion of “smart contracts as a service”. The platform is currently being piloted by nanyang polytechnic in Singapore as a digital diploma registry. This is being extended into a full professional network platform called Indorse, which ran an ICO earlier this year. In addition to the above we discuss the birth of the Ethereum Kovan testnet, which has it’s origins in a pub, just outside the Attores/Ethereum Foundation/Digix co-working space in Singapore.

Current solutions for decentralized data processing like Golem or Truebit provide part of a data services solution. Storj, Filecoin, Sia, and others offer storage solutions. Streamer tokenizes the value in streams of Data. Using the same interface for both data delivery and payment, Streamr hopes to create a two sided market for data. This rounds out the basic data services portfolio, operating synergistically with existing projects.