Dear Community, We’ve invited you all here to say thank you! Thank you to all the DAO, NFT, Social Token, and DeFi communities who made Collab.Land a part of your team over this last year. Because of you, we get to experiment, solve coordination problems, and build meaningful relationships. It’s…

An homage to Chuck E. Cheese This post aims to explain an evolution of reduced coordination costs using crypto and the serendipity of how I stumbled upon the evolution of curation economies. History In 2017, Mike Goldin, Ameen Soleimani and I co-authored a whitepaper formalizing a simple staking construction we referred…

With the increased interest of social tokens, I have found myself going back and reading this article over and over again trying to better grasp how crypto defines relationship based values such as trust, forgiveness, grace and redemption. …

How social tokens exchange DAOfi is improving the user experience — What is it? The permit pattern is a simple but profound UI/UX improvement when dealing with Ethereum sidechain users. Sidechains are attractive to developers because they require minimal change in the development process. What problem does it solve? It reduces the number of steps needed to setup and interact with an EVM based sidechain.

The network effects of syndicating unprecedented levels of coordination based on future commitments TL;DR While we can solve Ethereum’s scalability and on-boarding issues, the real opportunity is discovering a new collaboration playbook based on a syndication of open networks. History Doesn’t Repeat — It Rhymes Previous posts discussed how CREATE2 can solve the Ethereum New User…

TL;DR CREATE2 can fix the Ethereum New User Flow (ENUF). It also sets the stage for a scalable layer2 first design with the added bonus of unlocking new payment flows. When is ENUF Enough? A previous post outlined how solving the Ethereum New User Flow (ENUF) using CREATE2 reduces user friction by removing the…

TL;DR User on-boarding in Ethereum is too complex. CREATE2 not only removes on-boarding friction, but also sets the stage to give users more ways to control and manage their funds. Minimum Viable Trust Okay I’ll say it — despite working in the crypto space, I still get nervous when handling my private keys…

TL;DR We need to improve usability in Ethereum. The upcoming hard fork was intended to address scalability, but perhaps it’s also the answer to user on-boarding. Usability in Ethereum Ethereum is a decentralized network that can process roughly 15 transactions per second. It’s definitely a breakthrough that these transactions are all…

Moneyball for f2p games — EA’s original vision of video game publishing - let the software artist focus on creating amazing games and leave it to the publisher to take care of the business side of gaming. This blog post marks the 30 anniversary of the EA “software artist” ad. Now people are communicating anytime…