A DeFi fantasy or nightmare? Decentralized on- and off-ramps are an industry ideal but progress to date has been a slow bleed. Let’s cut right to the heart of the current issues and possibilities.

Are airdrops poisoning projects’ success? The promise of free tokens is a traction strategy forged in up-only markets and it's now clear that founders need to look elsewhere for a step up in growth.

RWAs have been painted as a next bull run driver. In reality, the infra framing them isn’t close to being effective. Are they a fix-all or are we glossing over obvious failures?

Friend.Tech is an influencer's fantasy. But strip away the shills and there are clear question marks about its intentions. Let's explore the true cost of DeFi friendships.

Social media users are caught in a David vs. Goliath battle with centralized actors over their identities, data, and content. These innovative Web3 configurations are now tipping the balance and letting users take back control.

Constant societal conditioning sees us relinquish our freedoms and individuality from the moment we're born. Web3 identity tools are now taking them back.

Creators are drowning feeds with AI-gen content. DeSoc, and more specifically on-chain attestation, could hone the delivery of more relevant and enriching content to users.

Threads as a copycat app offers Meta little. The brand should instead look to innovate closer to home, much like Twitter.

What happens in a supply-demand driven market when the supply quality is poor? The recent Azuki saga, and shrinking floor price, has once again illustrated a severe lack of creativity in the current NFT market.

Fair launches are an attractive proposition for regulatory-conscious builders. But doesn't any element of human decision-making start to chip away at equality?

The great age of (dis)information. Blockchain is the only safeguard we have for protecting against the malicious use of technology to engineer social disruption.

Our governance aggregator, co-developed with ChatGPT, gets a round of sizzling upgrades. This is what's new at spicy.vote.

DAO decisions are fundamental to collective progress. Snapshot adding shielded voting creates more questions than it answers as we try to streamline Web3 decision-making.

Crypto is weak when it lets faces and 'idols' represent the space. Let's hope the Father of Bitcoin stays dead and buried.

Is AI dangerous? Quite possibly - but crypto-biometrics could hold the key to safeguarding against its misuse.

Mobile wallets will bring the numbers. Fine-tune crypto on the move and the world opens up for mass adoption.

Exploring DAO governance needs to be simpler. We recruited ChatGPT to help guide our coding efforts as we created the first DAO vote aggregator for contentious votes.

Canto's feel-good mission captured degens' imaginations (and investment dollars) on its launch. Now the dust has settled, should we scoff at the altruistic vision or still see it as an opportunity?

Will ChatGPT leave devs reeling? We set out to discover the answer and challenge AI to build an NFT contract.

It doesn’t take a wizard to realize Gitcoin is in a state of operational flux. Is it time for Web3’s peaceniks to demand more accountability from its collaborators?

With CEXs encircling crypto, and channeling the inflow of new users, it's time for Web3 brains to set its own boundaries and develop on-ramp alternatives with decentralization embedded firmly into them.

Blockchain will need to virtually disappear from the consciousness of a typical user to succeed. Overcoming gaps in modular architecture through a blanket, unified communications layer could help DeFi to achieve that mission.

One thing that we don’t touch on enough is transferring unique IRL values into Web3. Can something like Van Gogh’s Sunflowers or Picasso’s Guernica ever truly be tokenized? The IRL collectibles industry may offer insight.

2022 was a year of twists and turns. So what is 2023 going to do with the heap of ragged degens and blood-stained port balances that it inherited from its predecessor?

Crypto is arguably in a state of perpetual mutation maximalism, piling iteration upon iteration of code, ideas, and mechanics on top of each other. There will come a time when killer web3 apps gain global adoption, and they will achieve it through simplicity.