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Paul

The 2 token model for public goods

Companies that build private goods have it easy. Issue stock, give investors voting rights if they want them, and everyone's aligned on the same page: make as much money as possible. But for organizations that build non-private goods, maximizing success can conflict with maximizing revenue—like when a sports team moves to a new city, seeking profit over community.Splitting the functions of governance + investmentA 2-token model solves this by splitting these functions:a governance token power...

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Cap Hill Crypto

Decentralized AI

Julie Stitzel—Senior Vice President of Policy for DCG—unpacks decentralized AI, how crypto ties in, and related policy considerations.

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trpplffct

Arjan Tupan

Finding inspiration

We're finding inspiration in this issue #247 of your weekly poetry shot

#poetry#inspiration#creativity
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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Wait, how many days do I have to go into the office? As many as it takes

This week, the largest publicly traded company in Canada by market capitalization — the Royal Bank of Canada — told its employees to return to the office at least four days a week starting this fall (you know, once the summer is over). This is a first among Canada's largest banks, but it's still more timid than what US banks have been doing. JPMorgan Chase, for instance, asked its employees at the start of this year to return to the office 5 days a week. Goldman Sachs did the same way back in Ma

#rbc#productivity#office#return-to-office#agglomeration-economies#canada
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rch

Farcaster Fridays: My Top 3 Highlights from This Week

A Noice World, The Leaderboard, and Precoin

#noice#precoin#degen#leaderboard#consumer#crypto
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ETH Daily

ETH Daily

SEC Statement On Protocol Staking

The SEC concluded that solo staking, self-custodial staking with a third party, and custodial staking are not securities transactions.

#news#2025#may2025
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The Asterisk

B Was My Friend, And Then She Wasn't

Something that’s been weighing on me for a while, on friendships that are here and then suddenly gone. B was my friend. In a way that a lot of other people weren’t. There was an in-between period after I came out as transgender in 2020 where I hung onto my natal last name, until fully deciding to embrace a new identity. B was one of a few relationships I made after I had fully embraced my new identity. I had just finished a bit of work for the Burning Man non-profit around the time B founded ...

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Web3 with TPan

TPan

#371: Getting Loud with Loud

Are you seeing the terms ‘loud’, ‘loudio’, or ‘$loud’ pop up in your X feed lately? Is your favorite mercenary content creator talking about a ‘Loud leaderboard’? Well get ready to mute those terms, or let the chaos of the Loud experiment commence!A small team introduced Loud, a tokenized attention experiment. We already have memecoins which are essentially tokenized attention, but this one is arguably a purer form of this.What is Loud?Earlier this week, 0x_ultra shared an overview of Loud an...

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ANTIBLOG

LGHT

the little things that end up meaning a lot

largely a fan of goodalexander’s digital figure hallucinations & entropy documentation, i depart from his thesis in what may be an unintended, yet implicit, assumption that the current generation of “public figures” is the final instantiation of this new archetype in digital markets (more figurative than literal). materially insignificant, potentially, across time they end up in completely different markets. no proclamations are being made on which thesis is superior or which future more like...

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Continuations

Albert Wenger

Star Trek Vision: Energy Too Cheap To Meter

A few weeks ago I wrote a post outlining a Star Trek Vision for the US. More broadly speaking, I believe that an agenda like this should be the vision for the world. One of the many inspiring aspects of Star Trek, the original series, was humans collaborating across backgrounds including race, gender and nationality. I am now turning my initial outline into a series of posts that explores each of the bullet points in more detail, starting with "energy too cheap to meter" (to illustrate that a...

#startrek#vision#energy
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CURIOUS AF

David Preston

Through the Looking Glass Blurrily

(Sorry for taking last week off. Someone exploded a car bomb nearby that shook my house and my psyche, and I responded by driving two hours away to run a half-marathon I hadn’t trained for. Today I’m making good on the technology note I promised a couple weeks ago, and including some other stuff I’d jotted down, as well as some newer stuff from the last few days, so this week’s edition is kind of a two-for-one Frankennewsletter that is stuffed with very non-AI, human goodness. Don’t thank me ...

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ANTIBLOG

LGHT

Your reminder that you don’t read or refine your language and word choice enough even though you love learning & getting wiser

Thinking is a skill because we don’t start out knowing what “empirical” means. Awareness maybe a talent then? Nonetheless, a little secret i used to skill-grind reading comprehension (especially when i was in reading slumps) :: ☆ Subtitles on everything you watchYou gotta be reading. Thinking is a blade that dulls. Books, subbed video content. There’s no real excuse beyond preference & this isn’t the paper for those individuals. ANTIBLOG 05.29.00002025

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William Mougayar's Blog

William Mougayar's Blog

In Defense of Chain Neutrality

The digital landscape is once again grappling with a concept crucial to its equitable and open functioning. Just as the debate around “net neutrality” defined the guiding principles of an open internet, a new imperative is emerging within the burgeoning world of blockchain technology that we should pay attention to: “chain neutrality.” However, unlike its predecessor, chain neutrality delves deeper, reaching into the very foundational ethos and operational mechanics of decentralized systems. ...

#blockchain#decentralization#internet#neutrality
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Pioneering Spirit

@patwater

The Lantern in the Storm

Introduction: A Fire on the HillsideThis past spring, the Eaton Fire swept through the foothills above Los Angeles, forcing the evacuation of my family and consuming the homes of friends. The flames were swift and merciless — but more than the forest burned. The fire made visible what we often forget: that the climate crisis is not a future to prepare for. It is a present we are already living. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects up to 200 million climate refugees by 2050 —...

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Seed Club

Cheryl Douglass

you're in the top 0.01% of my mindshare

Noice mini app, The L1 Endgame Problem, Cookie Snaps, AUX curation markets, Farcaster Pro, and probably more

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Union Square Ventures

Matt Mandel

Volteras

One of the most exciting trends in energy is the rise of programmable power. Energy devices have become increasingly software-controllable. Developers can now build large virtual energy systems out of many small decentralized assets. We’ve been investing across the programmable power stack from foundational hardware to app-layer networks. At present, app developers have to navigate a fragmented landscape of energy hardware. Virtual power plants, for example, have to control devices from elect...

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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Not grand retail

The Frank Gehry-designed Grand LA is a prominent mixed-use development in downtown Los Angeles that sits across from the celebrated Walt Disney Concert Hall (which was also designed by Gehry). Developed by Related, the project occupies an entire city block and contains a 305-room hotel by Hilton, 347 luxury rental apartments, 89 affordable apartments, and over 164,000 sf of retail space. According to Bloomberg, most of the project is doing quite well. The hotel occupancy rate is at 69%, the h...

#frank-gehry#related#los-angeles#downtown-la#grand-la#mixed-use#development#retail#retail-vacancy#real-estate
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Cryptogryph.com | gryphonboy.eth

Gryphonboy

Ethereum's Golden Cross

Ethereum's Golden Cross: Bullish sign? Explore this potent TA indicator, its ETH impact, historical weight & future amidst protocol evolution.

#golden#cross#ta#technical#analysis#blockchain
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Ex Machina

Rahul Matthan

Forging the Narrative

To withstand scrutiny, a forgery must extend beyond the artefact in question to the entire back-story within which it resides. While it used to be that these narratives had to be concocted painstakingly, one instance at a time, modern technology makes it possible to carry out on an industrial scale.

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ETH Daily

ETH Daily

Euler Introduces EulerSwap

An AMM-based DEX that integrates Euler’s lending vaults with Uniswap v4’s hook architecture.

#news#2025#may2025
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