Crypto social feels like 2003 to me.

Clever experimenters have created a lot of the proto ideas and ux patterns that will become networks and apps.

Excited to see the Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter of this generation emerge on crypto rails.

I always save new crypto social experiments that break the mold.

Here are 20 of the most innovative on-chain experiments I've seen in the last 3 years. Some are well-known, some are not, some are no longer active.

First, let's start with elegant human coordination mechanisms:

0/ Uniswap Labs 🦄 received a Wells notice from the SEC yesterday.

What does this mean, what happens next, and what should founders do in the meantime? 🧵

Do you nerd out about data on a daily basis?
Do you argue about the definition of an L2 till you're blue in the face?

If so, take a look at some of the key roles to help shape Electric Capital ⚡️'s Developer Report (developerreport.com)

We Electric Capital ⚡️ are hiring!
- Data Engineer: jobs.electriccapital.com/companies/elec…

- Data Annotator: jobs.electriccapital.com/companies/elec…

- Data Taxonomist to shepherd the Developer Report crypto taxonomy: jobs.electriccapital.com/companies/elec…

DM if you are interested or know someone who may be!

0/ We are delighted to share v1.1 of Electric Capital ⚡️'s NFTPulse.org!

We added 3 new data sets:
i/ Base 🛡️ NFTs & marketplaces (@opensea Element NFT Marketplace sudoswap Zonic : NFT Marketplace for L2 ⚡️⚡️⚡️)
ii/ royalties
iii/ per collection data

We also have some new visualizations! ⏬

We launched a number of updates to nftpulse.org

Base 🛡️ support, royalty support, data around individual collections, and several new visualizations!

The biggest update since ordinals is coming to BTC at the halvening ... RUNES. I listened to 30 hours of the Ordinals Coding Club and this is what runes are and what's coming in the future:

Runes are a new fungible token protocol on Bitcoin that uses an indexer based model…

So proud to be working on NFT Pulse, where we bring reliable cross-chain NFT data together!

If there are data cuts/metrics/charts you would like to see on NFT data, let us know and we can make it happen!

1/ Announcing NFT Pulse!
nftpulse.org

At Electric Capital ⚡️ we kept asking NFT questions but had 2 problems:
A. data sources were sus
B. data was not cross chain

We built a v1 on Allium data & are opening the dash publicly. Feedback is appreciated!

Fun charts👇

The NEAR Ecosystem welcomes Frax Finance ¤⛓️¤ on NEAR as it takes its first major leap into a non-EVM environment.

This move increases diversity in the stablecoin landscape on NEAR, among other novel unlocks for DeFi and yield-bearing assets on NEAR.

Let's. Fraxin. Go.

Read more:…

I ended my time at Meta as a director.

But I started as an engineer on FB Chat.

Everything about it was broken — we had to rewrite it.

And while the effort to fix it is one the projects that led to React, the most important fix was far simpler...

Here’s the full story:

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Capping off a great week tomorrow morning with some great folks from Offchain Labs, Espresso Systems, Blockworks , Sovereign and many others

Let’s dive into DevRel & Tokenomics 👀

First up and LIVE NOW is maria & Austin Griffith 🛠🚢🔥 discussing the state of DevRel, and how to empower developers and fueling ecosystem growth 🛠️

maria Electric Capital ⚡️ Next up and LIVE NOW is a panel on growth strategies and innovative tokenomics ☀️

Led by Ken Deeter, and joined by Sid, Aiham (AJ), and Daljeet 🙌🏼

Follow the Devs? How VCs Are Deploying Capital in 2024

Presented by ren (wassie arc) from Electric Capital ⚡️, James Wo 💎💎💎 from DFG, Felix Machart from Greenfield Capital and solene.eth from Borderless

Watch the full video below 👇

Developer Report Deepdive

Presented by maria from Electric Capital ⚡️

Watch the full video below 👇

LIVE ON STAGE NOW!

ren (wassie arc) from Electric Capital ⚡️, James Wo 💎💎💎 from DFG, Felix Machart from Greenfield Capital and solene.eth from Borderless is presenting 'Follow the Devs? How VCs Are Deploying Capital in 2024'

Watch the clip below 👇

Our Ecosystem Growth Summit is under way!

Today is dedicated to fostering innovation and collaboration on topics related to ecosystem growth within the EVM 👏

Llama is cohosting an Open Cafe tomorrow from 9 am to 4 pm!

Join us for food, coffee, and good company.

lu.ma/opencafeethden…