Before Bitcoin: The ideas that made blockchains possible
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Stablecoin spending by card swipe is up 2.5x in a year — and it's happening overwhelmingly in digital dollars, almost entirely on Visa
Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon: Why America needs CLARITY
And why no rules is the riskiest rule of all
From corporation to crowd: How organizations evolved through time and technology
The corporation solved the coordination problems of the industrial age. The DUNA — a new legal entity — does the same for decentralized networks.
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Why tokenized stocks grew more than 5x in a year.
It’s time to pass the CLARITY Act
The GENIUS Act brought stablecoins to the mainstream. Now the networks they run on deserve the same clarity.
The time for Clarity is here: The next-generation Telecoms Act
Congress has a chance to pass the most important technology law since the Telecoms Act.
TradFi doesn’t want DeFi. It wants blockchains.
Blockchain adoption is a cost story, not a conviction story. Builders should plan for both.
The most underrated token type
Arcade tokens offer a different model for crypto: tokens that work like loyalty points or arcade credits, but with the openness and programmability of public blockchains.
A reading list about being/staying human
Part 2 of our summer reading list: 17 books on ambition, grief, meaning, and what people do when things get complicated.
A reading list for the deeply curious
Part one of our summer reading list: 13 books on technology, markets, AI, code, and the systems behind change.
Prediction markets just posted their third straight record-setting week
Prediction markets just had their biggest week ever.
The new comms playbook: show, don’t promise
The next era belongs to builders with receipts
The money flow is the moat
The best businesses sit inside the flow of value. Stablecoins and programmable networks are making that pattern available to every startup.
The race to own AI
One of the more interesting side effects of the AI boom is the scramble to own pieces of it.
3 product-market fit patterns working right now
Product-market-fit (PMF) is one of the single greatest determinants of whether a company lives or dies.
What prediction markets actually know
The questions they answer that other markets can't — and what they still need to get right
The tokenization boom in 7 charts
How tokenization is changing what assets are, how they move, and who can build on top of them
Finally, finance's digital transformation
The case for blockchains as finance’s long-delayed cloud moment.
The law was built for companies. The future may be built by networks
Why the CLARITY Act is really about whether decentralized networks can exist as first-class institutions in the United States.