1/5 Can foreign exchange markets trade on the blockchain? Excited to share a new paper with Junxuan and Angelo Ranaldo. We focus our attention on EURC/USDC, a stablecoin pair trading on Uniswap. Is this market connected to the traditional EUR/USD market? A short thread

🔥 What a session at the Inter Protocol Community Call! 🔥
🗣️ Highlight of the day: 'Orchestration is about UX' - wisdom shared by Rowland Graus 🛡️ (@Agoric). A key takeaway that underscores the importance of a human-centric focus in Web3!

I produced a half-hour animated overview of the Broken Money subject matter.

It covers the history of money, the development of banking, and how new technology changes the way we interact with money over time.

Enjoy:
youtu.be/jk_HWmmwiAs?si…

A beginner’s guide to sociopolitical collapse, by Eli Dourado elidourado.com/p/collapse?utm…

In June, I'm co-organizing a popup village called Edge Esmeralda!

It will be a place for people who believe the future can be better & are actively working to make it happen

It's also a prototype for a permanent new town I'm building — more on that in a future post 🙂

medium.com/regen-network/…

C. J. Cherryh, 'Invader', on why we visit very old buildings:
'A sense of age, of profound truths. Respect for something
hands made, that's stood through storms and wars and time.
It persuades us that things we do may last and matter.'

July in Tokyo? We’ll be there. 🎉⛩️

Thrilled to announce the 10th edition of Funding the Commons! Right before @EDCON24, join us at the UN University for 2 days of innovative discussions on public goods and decentralized science. 👇

lu.ma/ftc-tokyo-2024

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Cosmos Hub Prop #912 marks a new milestone for the Cosmos Ecosystem 💫

1️⃣ As the DCF Agoric Community Spend Proposal just passed, 188,768 ATOM from the community pool will be:

• Liquid staked with Stride and Persistence One 🦾 🌊

• Used as collateral to mint the Inter…

US debt crisis is a MAJOR concern

This could get really ugly

1/ The philosophical intersection of crypto and American politics.

🧵

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

When it comes to the AI ecosystem, “we are full in the land of black swans” (Thomas Wolf, co-founder of Hugging Face).
Listen to the full conversation:
➝ youtu.be/dGR0vAJAlmI
➝ spoti.fi/49zlhr3
➝ apple.co/3xBZuSk
#scalingtheory #generativeai

I spent last week with Regen Network as they designed an Autonomous Ecological Institution at Wilbur Hot Springs. While there, I wrote the first snippet of 'Flume - A Sulfur Punk story'
ellierennie.medium.com/flume-eda6d81f…

MY LATEST: summarizing the state of policymaker and academic views on stablecoins

medium.com/@nic__carter/f…

Though a work of fiction, Blood Meridian is meticulously rooted in real geography and accurate history.

I've put together a list of a few of the real life places that you can visit today if you'd like to follow in the footsteps of the Glanton Gang: 🧵

Not aimed at any specific project, but have seen a ton of discourse recently on the topic so figured I’d share my take on good token distributions:

1) tokens, not points

2) don’t farm the farmers - teasing and creating ambiguity around a token distribution to grow your numbers…

✨ Tomorrow is Hal Finney's 68th birthday.

A true cypherpunk legend, Hal championed #Bitcoin when it was worth $0, predicted it would hit $1 million, and helped Satoshi with the 1st code release.

A video tribute to his life and lasting legacy 💫

Some highlights from the Cosmos - The Interchain ⚛️ Interchain Jam with Dean Tribble, John ⊽🐬, and Joe Schnetzler.

Thank you to Røbb Stack ⚛️ for hosting 🙏