“Portal” will go into a curated collection of cryptoart supporting Ethereum development at the edge of The Merge — “New Home of the Heart” is a collection curated by JPG, Stateful Works and Sofia Garcia to commemorate The Merge and support Ethereum development. An auction will be released this week Monday Sep. 12th, 2022. I’m very excited to be included among those who contributed! https://jpg.space/mint/NewHomeOfTheHeart/comingsoon

“There’s only one thing worse than being talked about, and that’s not being talked about.” She was talking about her life as an artist. “I guess,” I said. We were five creators around a table at a pub. Sipping beer and lamenting the fixed and fickle nature of appreciation. Some…

A virus, its pervasive influence, through artists and their works — “You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times” — Nina Simone Back with parents again; with several little children while working remotely; or in a tiny apartment completely alone; far from family in another country, in another city; social distancing and…

Super quick quickstart on jumping into the second layer that is evolving rapidly on Ethereum — I contributed a blog post to Etherscan recently, focusing on second layers as products: The focus of this post is to describe L2 solutions as kinds of products. In another post, I’ve argued that thinking in these terms is helpful. Product-thinking can help to sharpen scrutiny and consumer caution. Products…

L2s are evolving quickly, and are now very easy to try. Here’s a little product guide to L2s available for wide adoption. — Contents Introduction Why L1 → L2? Product dimensions - Dimension 1: What’s an L2? - Dimension 2: Validation Method - Dimension 3: Market Specialization - Dimension 4: Ecosystem Progress Important Limitations and Risks 🚧 Further Reading, Endnotes, Disclaimers ⭐️ More: Super Quick L2 Quickstart ⭐️

Unless you have recoverable on-chain NFTs, a challenge for anyone creating or owning NFTs is storing them. You hit this wall quickly. As many will know, one of the most prominent methods of storage is IPFS. I love this model — and IPFS is amazing. But it has all the…

Framing complex financial instruments more clearly as products may help to spark rational patterns of consumer behavior — Introduction It is well known in crypto that the term “stablecoin” is a misnomer. For one, these assets can vary widely in their stability. Secondly, the term “stablecoin” refers to many distinct techniques for maintaining some value or “peg” inside a crypto ecosystem. Some stablecoins are sustained by huge vaults of…

A little experimental NFT project exploring the conceptual and technical curiosities of “L2” in Bitcoin and other chains — Summary, tl;dr “layer_two” is a small, experimental NFT project inspired by how ecosystems expand and diversify. In crypto, this is best illustrated by “layers.” A base layer, or “L1,” is a foundation for layers built on it. A new layer built upon an L1 is referred to as a second layer, “L2.”…

What 100,000 transactions on Ethereum mainnet reveal about the coordination of charitable giving in blockchain — Crypto can evoke a curious contradiction. First, there is the sovereign individual, a concept that some see at the core. But there is a seemingly opposing force, processes of coordination and consensus. This contradiction is illusory. You cannot have the sovereign individual in this technology without trust-minimized coordination. These are…