Published inMattereum - Humanizing the Singularity·4 days agoJUST ONE WORLD WITH MATTEREUM… Everyone, Everything, Everywhere. — In the launch paper for the Mattereum Group’s MATR token, which recently went on sale* I talked about how Mattereum’s groundbreaking innovations create an enforceable legal connection between the token representing an asset and the tokenized asset itself, and how this has the power to completely transform business for the…Ethereum6 min readEthereum6 min read
Published inMattereum - Humanizing the Singularity·Feb 28, 2024PERMANENT SUMMER: THE NEW MATR TOKEN…And Why The RWA Bull Market Goes On Forever**offer void where prohibited by law ;) In an epic ten-year spree, Ethereum has shown its potential to change the world for the better, but to achieve its full potential it has to extend its reach and firmly grasp real world assets (RWA) ============================================================== TLDR Mattereum GmbH has launched the…Token Sale12 min readToken Sale12 min read
Published inMattereum - Humanizing the Singularity·Jan 18, 2024HOW THE BLOCKCHAIN CAN SAVE THE YOUNG (from themselves)Navigating The Real Politics of the Blockchain In my last piece on this subject I explored how young people are searching for community and identity online, either through aesthetics like Cottagecore, or through economics, with things like DAOs and how, as a result, they had been captured by a brutal and isolating form of “pay-to-play tribalism”. Instead…Blockchain10 min readBlockchain10 min read
Published inMattereum - Humanizing the Singularity·Jan 11, 2024THE BITCOIN ETF RULING OPENS THE DOORS FOR THE MAINSTREAM BLOCKCHAINThe Tenth of January saw a landmark for the crypto industry, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approving 11 US-listed exchange-traded funds (ETF) that track Bitcoin. …Bitcoin5 min readBitcoin5 min read
Published inMattereum - Humanizing the Singularity·Jan 11, 2024CAN THE BLOCKCHAIN SAVE THE YOUNG (from themselves)?The Real Politics of the Blockchain — One of the arguments for why Octopuses have not managed to make the jump to high technology in the past few million years is that, despite being spookily intelligent, their young are free floating little sea creatures rather than being raised by parents. No way to build culture. …Blockchain13 min readBlockchain13 min read
Published inMattereum - Humanizing the Singularity·Dec 19, 2023BE REALISTIC — DEMAND THE INCORRUPTIBLE!Make the blockchain safe or lose it — I have recounted the history and prehistory of crypto elsewhere — the path from PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) through e-gold to Bitcoin. Now I want to take a look at what happened next, what went wrong with the Ethereum vision of the future, and how we can turn things around…Blockchain22 min readBlockchain22 min read
Published inMattereum - Humanizing the Singularity·Nov 14, 2023The Network State and the Digital HansaMattereum as a Synthetic Jurisdiction — Recently, I attended the Network State Conference in Amsterdam, as the innovative Mattereum Asset Passport (MAP) created by my company could have an important role to play in a network state future. The fact that MAPs work via the 1958 New York Convention on Arbitration enables them to use the…Blockchain9 min readBlockchain9 min read
Published inMattereum - Humanizing the Singularity·Sep 26, 2023Fractional Ownership, RWA DAOs, and the Holy GrailMattereum has recently announced a partnership with Swarm, a German exchange, and, you may ask, why is this one so important? Well, while we’ve made crucial partnerships with companies like NeoSwap and Crypto Real Estate this year, connecting to Swarm is the link that can really make things happen and…Rwa13 min readRwa13 min read
Published inMattereum - Humanizing the Singularity·Sep 19, 2023The Road to RWAWhere Crypto Came From and Why RWA are the Next Logical Step — All of this stuff really began in the 1990s; In the 1990s, crypto was a very, very different world. It was pre-blockchain, it was very much a world that was dominated by email, even the Web didn’t have any cryptography; there was no HTTPS. All it really had was a…Rwa10 min readRwa10 min read
Published inMattereum - Humanizing the Singularity·Jun 14, 2023Mattereum Welcomes the Arrival of A16Z in the UKAs one of the longest established blockchain companies in the UK, Mattereum feels very positive about Rishi Sunak’s announcement of the imminent opening of A16Z’s first international office here in the UK. In the six years of our existence, Mattereum has seen crypto booms and crypto winters (2022, 2018) and…Ethereum3 min readEthereum3 min read