👋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
👋 Hello, Crypto Altruists! It feels like Q4 is shaping up to be one of the most dynamic moments of the year. On one side, there's already a lot happening around activations prior to Devconnect Buenos Aires (Nov 17-23). The event will bring together Web3 builders from across
👋 Hello, Crypto Altruists! This past month has felt like a reminder of the crossroads we’re at. On one side, we see corporate-led chains and memecoins dominating headlines. On the other hand, communities are experimenting with tools for coordination: funding systems, residency programs, and public goods experiments that show
👋 Hello, Crypto Altruists! On July 30, Ethereum marked its 10th birthday with an official livestream led by Austin Griffith & Songyi (you can rewatch it here), as well as tens of community-led events around the world. Our Founder Drew attended one on the events in Waterloo, Canada, where he