plus a wave of cool new projects. — Our friends David and Ha from Cambrial Capital headed over to the Multicoin Summit in NYC this week and were kind enough to share some of their notes from what sounds like a super insightful event and a top notch set of speakers. Lots of interesting topics were (hotly!)…

🔥Thoughts Why isn’t Bitcoin banned everywhere? What an incredibly thought provoking piece by Haseeb for anyone who initially bought into the cypherpunk narrative: “Bitcoin was supposed to be the enemy of governments. It was supposed to destroy the state’s monopoly on monetary policy, it was supposed to be a battering ram against the banks and…

You’d have all seen Nouriel Roubini’s performance in front of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Community Affairs this week, and you must be sick and tired of hearing about it already. Here’s his full testimony if you missed it. …

+ governance, unwinding ICOs & more — 📦Unpacking MKR+A16Z You will no doubt have heard the news that A16Z Crypto have purchased 6% (or 60k tokens) of the total supply of MKR for $15M, for an implied network valuation of $250M ($250 per token). In case you missed, here is the announcement on the MakerDAO blog and the A16Z…

+ loads more in this week’s edition — 🔦 Featured this week Token Bonding Curves in Practice Exploring A Universal Distribution of IP via NFTs + Curation Marketstokeneconomy.co by Paul Kohlhaas This week’s featured piece is a deep dive into the intriguing concept of “token curated intellectual property”, a crypto economic design resulting from the combination of NFTs and token bonding curves to fund, curate and distribute ownership of IP rights…

Hello fellow Token Economists, We hope you all had an awesome summer, as away from Coinmarketcap as possible :) On our end, we religiously kept up our weekly cadence and thought we’d do a quick recap of what we talked about for those who have taken long breaks, or perhaps…

+ loads more in this week’s edition — 🔦 Featured this week The Store of Value Thesis Written by Qiao Wang and Dan McArdletokeneconomy.co by Qiao Wang & Dan McArdle Qiao and Dan from Messari share their views on the 1st, 2nd and even 3rd order properties of a Store of Value asset and how they interrelate with each other. A great mental model to think through how crypto asset of this type may…

+ loads more in this week’s edition — 🔦 Featured this week Market Narratives Are Marketing: Introducing The Crypto Narrative Index Like any emergent phenomena, crypto is a battle ground for narratives that compete to explain what’s happening, why…tokeneconomy.co by Nathaniel Whittemore Another awesome initiative by Nathaniel, who you may know already for his excellent tweetstorm-based weekly curation and insightful thoughts on the most relevant events in crypto land. If you don’t already, make sure you follow him for great signal.

⏰Reminder >> applications for the September Unplug Retreat are closing soon. — 🔦 Featured this week Mapping The Decentralized Financial System More transparent, open, and programmable financial services tokeneconomy.co Designing Non-Fungible Tokens as Open Ecosystems Airdrops, Interoperability & Extensibility, and Royaltiestokeneconomy.co Detokenizing Important DGPT holder update For all the talk about tokenizing equity, we have the first case of the reverse transaction: a company is “equitizying” its tokens.