Could mass adoption of crypto come from a game like Fornite? Probably not. But grassroots experimentation in new forms of games might.

Owners conflate tokens with equity, expecting similar forms of ownership and control. That's not good.

Crypto-anarchists believed that only pure privacy could prevent the marginalization of groups. Today, many privacy-forward technologies seem to offer just some privacy. Is that good enough?

Price impacts fundamentals. On the way up, this can lead to bootstrapping a network. On the way down, it can unwind an entire ecosystem. I explore a conceptual framework on this relationship and what to do about it.

What role do stablecoins play in the industry today and why it makes business sense for a company like Gemini to spend their time and energy on creating, getting regulatory approval for, and going to market with a new stablecoin?

It's safe to say the last year has been a bubble for cryptoassets. What can we learn about the nature of cryptoasset bubbles and the psychology of its participants?

The term decentralized was not used by Satoshi or the cypherpunk movement. It rose alongside Ethereum to describe the opposite of centralized, and has experienced so much semantic drift that it has lost all practical meaning.

The crypto community is tribal and full of in-fighting. People behave in seemingly irrational ways. What can we learn from the psychology of mass movements to explain these behaviors?

Many projects claim they have or will add governance when they really mean they will add a voting widget. Voting is a common feature in live projects, but the implementations vary substantially and often play only a small role in the overall governance of these projects.

If last year was blue sky for smart contract protocols, this year is red ocean. Who will survive the fight for developers and end-users?

How can we better design our systems to maximize efficiency rather than pander to speculators? Developers of token networks and digital asset registries can learn from the history of private property.

Is crypto an incremental technology to apply opportunistically or a revolutionary technology to reshape society? What defines the difference in these viewpoints and what are the implications?