One of the peculiar aspects of crypto stablecoins is the reverence with which they treat the US Dollar. The two leading stablecoins, USDC and USDT, hold billions of dollars in reserves.

Unilever’s chief digital and commercial officer is on edge: the global internet is being transformed. But that won’t necessarily make it better. In fact, it could make it worse.

Tokens like the new one from Bored Ape Yacht Club promise to decentralize the web. So why are insiders reaping most of the profits?

Pour bien évaluer le potentiel du Web3 il est nécessaire de faire abstraction du côté bling-bling des cryptomonnaies et NFTs. Passé le stade dubitatif et la perplexité face à un jargon incompréhens…

The advertised decentralization of power out of the hands of a few has, in fact, been a re-centralization of power into the hands of fewer

The current conflict is about much more than Ukraine; it’s also about the future of the dollar and the US role in the global order.

Web3 has been a very fashionable term this year, mostly for the alt-finance cartoon characters and tech world’s ultrasophisticated twitter-thread authors. It was one of the two cheat code phrases that you could use in 2021 to bypass the critical thinking of LPs when raising your first ever fund, with the other being “metaverse”. Congrats, you now have one billion dollars to deploy because you learned the trendy words and you went to a good school, glhf.

A couple of months ago this Dispatch might have been called ‘WTF Web3?’ Today, it should be quite a bit more informed. Still, I’m in no way any kind of specialist on the topic, just spending a bit more time exploring, which is what I’d like to share here. Just a list of thoughts and things to read.

The 21st century doesn’t belong to China, the United States, or Silicon Valley. It belongs to the internet.

"On-chain reputation" means your contributions and achievements will be public and searchable — impacting hiring, banking, and creator engagement.

Curated resources for those seeking to understand, build, and otherwise get involved with decentralized autonomous organizations or DAOs

This post “explains like I’m five” core crypto concepts: web 3, blockchain (wallets, consensus), tokens, bitcoin, ethereum, NFTs, and DAOs. Let's go down the rabbit hole together.