Some call it #defi, some call it #dopefi, I have no idea why. — I want to make a prediction and then walk you through how I arrived at it: 50% of all assets will live on an open source financial protocol in 50 years. Today, nearly all assets are described in simple SQL databases that are wrapped in layers of complexity. We call…

A mental model for potential — I want to explain some of the experiences I have had that very few people can relate to. I have been lucky enough to stumble across a few rocket ships before anyone else cared. This has helped me build up a mental model for things that have potential. Stripe In…

App updates, working with MakerDAO & a trip to California — We have had a really great start to 2019. Everyone is together in the studio and we are focused on shipping our app as soon as possible. One experiment I ran was to ask our community if they had any questions for me in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) format…

An update on the state of the company — To the sharehodlers of Balanced Software, Inc., Your CEO has not misspelt shareholders, he is making a terrible pun on the meme of #HODLing. This is probably the most valuable meme in history. It began when an inebriated individual encouraged everyone on the Bitcoin Talk Forums to never sell their…

The business models emerging on the interchain — Every business aims to generate positive cashflow at some point. If you are starting a freelance design studio, your goal is to cover your expenses each month and produce enough profit to fund your lifestyle. If you are starting a technology startup, your goal is to grow extremely fast for…

What Balance is trying to buidl and why we are trying to do it. — Bitcoin gave us unstoppable digital gold. Ethereum gave us unstoppable digital contracts. 0x Project gave us unstoppable digital exchange. Dharma gave us unstoppable digital debt. Aragon hopes to give us unstoppable digital organisations. All of these projects are creating incredible buidling blocks. Balance is buidling a Distributed Autonomous Bank.

Big improvements to our tool for managing Ethereum wallets — We have been really blown away by the response to Manager. We wanted to make it easier for everyone to see and send the tokens stored in their wallets. Balance has shipped a few products that people like. Manager is the first product that people want. 🖲 Exchanging Tokens I have always found…

Open economic infrastructure & a popular wallet are joining us — WalletConnect is a simple way for web-based dapps to talk to mobile wallets. We want to make it easier for people to interact with decentralised applications (or dapps) that run on protocols such as Ethereum. Our hope is that WalletConnect will become an open, inter-operable standard which will benefit dapp…

Changing the dapp experience to protect people’s privacy — Last weekend I attended the #WalletConf after EdCon. There were lots of fascinating talks about the future of Ethereum and wallet software. One of the most important takeaways for me came from Dan Finlay, one of the creators of MetaMask. …