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.

Is X a wolf in sheep's clothing? It has re-positioned itself as a home for contrarian thinkers under Elon, but ultimately retains centralized control. Distributed social communities are now turning these power structures on their heads.

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

UniV4 is a sophisticated protocol update capable of simplifying order book innovation. Let's speculate around what could be achieved in the near future...

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.

All roads began with Bitcoin, but they ultimately end with decentralization. The maxi mindset is a barrier to innovation that isn't just hampering growth in the space, but to the OG blockchain itself.

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?

We often hear how “the USD is backed by the full strength and might of the US military”, but this is misleading, and glosses over the coercion at the center of the argument. As this fallacy extends into crypto (”bitcoin is backed by energy”), it’s a good time to be careful with wording.

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.

Value increases with scarcity, and amid a new world of machine-generated content and guidance, there is less of “that which is human”. There's strong reason to be optimistic about a reversion to community and to be bullish on the tools that help us connect and coordinate.

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.