👋Hello, Crypto Altruists! When we read that this year's UN climate summit is being framed around moving "from pledging to proving," our eyes perked up. 👀 There's no wonder proof is kind of our thing. For the past five years, we've been covering
👋Hello, Crypto Altruists! When people say big institutions moved into crypto this year, they usually mean Wall Street: the banks, the ETFs, the tokenized funds. But there's another set of institutions we've been watching, and pointing to something that web3 has struggled to show for years:
👋Hello, Crypto Altruists! Web3 has never been short on theories about how people should organize. Testing one takes a place, a few hundred people, and time. DWeb Camp ran its latest edition in Germany last month, Valley of the Commons opens in the Austrian Alps later this August for a
👋Hello, Crypto Altruists! If you care about community ownership (and if you're reading this, you probably do!), you may have been watching the Ethereum ecosystem this month. It's renegotiating where power lives, and it's doing it in public. The Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit that
👋Hello, Crypto Altruists! There's something we keep noticing... The blockchain for good conversation is finding its way into rooms it wasn't in before. Paris this month was a good example. UNDP launched its Blockchain Advisory Group at Proof of Talk, gathering 26 blockchain organizations at the
👋Hello, Crypto Altruists! For us, it's values season. Google hired a philosopher. The Ethereum Foundation published a new mandate built around explicit principles. People are writing fiction about better futures and redesigning governance systems from scratch. The Long Now Foundation launched a lab series exploring how frontier technologies
👋Hello, Crypto Altruists! It's a quieter season in web3. Less noise, more building. And sometimes that's exactly when the most interesting shifts happen. EthCC just wrapped in Cannes, and we went through dozens of recaps to get a pulse on where things stand. A few things
👋Hello, Crypto Altruists! If your feed looks anything like ours lately, it's been a lot of AI. OpenClaw hackathon photos, builders posting their Claude experiments at 2 am, model release threads that go on forever, and even emails signed off by autonomous AI agents. For the web3 world,
👋Hello, Crypto Altruists! It's been a disorienting few weeks in web3. Markets are down. Major events like NFT Paris & RWA Paris just canceled, citing the "prolonged crypto market downturn". Twitter is flooded with "Why I'm leaving crypto" posts. Layoffs are rolling
👋Hello, Crypto Altruists! Happy 2026! At the beginning of each year, we like to take a moment to pause and look at where the space is coming from and where it's heading. Based on that, we've identified our 10 web3 impact trends for this year. The
👋🎄 Hello, Crypto Altruists! As we enter the last month of the year (and forgive us if it sounds like a cliché at this point), we're seeing unmistakable signs of a more mature web3 ecosystem. And they're coming from different corners of the space... Ethereum's
👋 Hello, Crypto Altruists! We're seeing a promising momentum in crypto. 👀 It's starting to behave less like a market and more like an economy. Stablecoins moved over $5 trillion on Ethereum last quarter, more than Visa and Mastercard combined, while new blockchain-based aid pilots, from Syria