The Incentive Full Stack
Inside Polymarket’s growth orchestra: product pull, liquidity, referrals, rebates, and retention.
James Glasscock
Who Owns What? A Look at Token Rights, Disclosure and Enforceability
Under the microscope with new token frameworks from Aragon, Blockworks, DefiLlama, and ideas for the adoption path ahead
Growth Pull: Lessons from Hyperliquid, Venice, and Canton
Crypto isn’t broken. Some things just don’t stick yet. A few systems seem to work differently. Here’s a simple loop that might explain why.
A 48-Hour Sprint In AI Tools
Scratching the surface of how solo builders wield team-level power with off-the-shelf AI tools (non coder field notes)
That’s My Quant: Indexing the DeFi Stablecoin-Network Frontier
Stablecoins are eating finance from the inside out. DeFi designs bring composability superpowers while fiat is suffocated by rent extraction and systemic drag. The OPEN Stablecoin Index tracks this frontier and lets time and governance do the compounding.
Diversify & Chill: Index Funds 3.0
Index funds reshaped markets—now they expand onchain. The next BlackRock will not look like today’s. From Wall Street to all streets: open, borderless, and endlessly customizable Decentralized Token Folios (DTFs). Capital goes where attention flows.
Aave Under The Hood: Up-Only Adoption
Step into Aave’s perfect storm: a $22 billion ecosystem with lending market fit, galvanized trust, stablecoin success, and lucrative carry trades. Decentralized governance and Merit incentives fortify its momentum, as Aave confronts an emerging trillion-dollar frontier: RWAs.
Humans All The Way Down: A soul search into DeFi community growth
An excavation into how DeFi thrives on its most valuable asset—people, plus pivotal strategies and hard-won lessons fueling sustainable community growth.
The Big Bang of Stablecoins
Many expect a power law for stablecoin winners. Its more complicated than that. We're in a multi decade era of financial unbundling and a 'big bang' of stablecoins.
Turning Out Wyoming’s Stablecoin Frontier
Wyoming aims to create its own custodial stablecoin, but could an onchain, diverse asset-backed stablecoin provide greater resilience?
Money Different
Permissionless asset-backed stablecoins unshackle prosperity. The dollar’s dominance is fracturing and a new era of stable currency is underway.