And the Interoperability of Handshake and Ethereum — Handshake, still less than a year old, is beginning to realize the virtues of the decentralized web in which anyone can own their own namespace free of gatekeepers or fear of censorship. Happening in parallel, Ethereum’s decentralized financial protocols are maturing from lofty experiments, to hardened primitives. The opportunity for…

When the Internet Becomes Money — The names our parents gives us, the ones we register with the State, those are fiat names. They matter to the government, they matter much less to the Internet. What matters to the Internet are the names of our websites, our emails, our profiles, our wallets. These names are useful…

Merging the Future of Finance with the DWeb — The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) movement contends to offer open and permission-less markets. But DeFi does not operate in a vacuum. In practice, frontend websites and applications remain centralized choke points to backend protocols. Decentralized finance is not truly decentralized until the whole stack is. Censorship poses a real threat to…

Creating Liquidity for Hype and Merchandise — The first wave of Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are having a moment. From Uniswap to Balancer to Curve, these protocols have amassed billions in liquidity and consumed mindshare in equal proportion. But, it turns out that the creation of automated and programmable markets are good for more than just financial…