A little update. Lately, I haven’t written a lot on here. Turns out, running your own startup and building a creator economy platform is taking a lot of time. Add to this family obligations and there’s just not a lot of time left. That, though, doesn’t mean I do not…

Professional sports should take web3 seriously — Recently, I read two very critical German media pieces on crypto and football. The following is a translated and lightly edited version of the German replica I wrote last week. One of the articles read like some of the reports about the Internet in 1999: “all criminals, no substance behind…

Why Web3 and Faceless Platforms could reshape the creator economy for the better. — The digital creator economy is an extremely dynamic environment. Every day we can see new creators emerge, platforms launch, technologies getting adopted, business ideas invented, and challenges arise. Constant changes abound. One example: the biggest trend of the last years has been the rise of subscriptions. After SaaS companies and…

A guide to understanding how Tokenization and Blockchain can be leveraged in the world of professional sports — Are you working in the sports industry and curious about tokenization and blockchain? Then you made it to the right place. …

Are you looking to create a new digital product? Is it going to be based on content and entertainment, say a new app, publication or blog? Are you a media company, brand, or content creator but not a software developer? If so, you are likely asking yourself: “Which content management…

Just a quick pointer to a new podcast. On the latest episode of the Liquidicast, Ron, Jonas, and myself discussed bridging live sports/events and web3. You can listen to the episode below or find it on your favorite podcast app. As I, on the same token, wrote a brief…

Making sports events more rewarding with Live NFTs — One of the most important and transformative developments of the last decade or so has been the digitization of everything. Initially, the digital realm was its own domain with only very few touchpoints to the physical world (once referred to as the “real world”). This has changed. Nowadays, there’s hardly…

How LT Fan Platform makes web3 easily usable for creators, publishers, and brands — There are more content creators than ever. If you ask today’s kids, many of them want to become one themselves. But being successful at it is no easy task. There are three key challenges that today’s creators face: Growing an audience Being dependent on a platform Monetizing their work (I…

We can discuss the nomenclature - when do we stop simply versioning the web? Or do we already have the term #metaverse? - but I fully buy and support the argument you are making: the initial web3 wave has mostly laid the technological groundwork (for the longest part of its…