www.vine.vc Today we emerge from stealth with a proposal for reimagining how venture capital can foster the sustainable emergence of psychedelics. We also share some announcements of the actions that we’re taking towards that future. Tim Ferris recently published some seminal posts (here and here) sharing his thoughtful remarks…

Keepers — the term to generally define the utility-layer actors on P2P networks who contribute key resources and behaviors in order to achieve a cryptoeconomic-Nash-equilibrium — are a fundamental building block and source of great potential for any crypto-network. See my previous post on Keepers for an overview. Jake Brukhman…

Abstract A commonly cited misconception among coaches and management in professional and elite-amateur sports that “if you listen to the fans, you’ll be sitting with them”. Given the strong body of evidence in favour of decisions that leverage the Wisdom of the Crowd, I contend that sports franchises could benefit…

Cryptographic tokens, which can represent digital scarcity in various forms, are an amazing use-case of blockchain technology. Tokens can be used to incentivize desired behaviours in decentralized networks. When designed correctly, tokens can act like rocket-fuel for driving network effects. One early example is Bitcoin’s block reward, which has incentivized…

There is a lot of conversation circling right now around climate change and ways to effectively mitigate our greenhouse gas emissions while contributing to strong economic growth both in the developing world as well as in developed countries. I don’t think it would be a productive discussion to descend into…

This week is a watershed moment for the blockchain token ecosystem. The tokenization movement that gained substantial momentum with the proliferation of ethereum takes an important step towards the ‘Poly-chain future of Web3’. With the release of CoinList, the team at Protocol Labs together with AngelList have launched a KYC-enabled…