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Everybody’s Wrong About Web3
Spend any amount of time in the blockchain and crypto space and you find yourself required to develop an extremely thick skin. The attacks come from everywhere and they’re vicious. So we become adept at framing our worldview in simple,…
IT ACTUALLY WORKS! Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging Using Metamask!
Inb0x is the fully encrypted wallet-to-wallet messaging service developed by Parallel Alpha.
Dorsey’s Caustic Tweet Sparks Debate About Who Truly Owns Web3
Jack Dorsey's abrasive tweet about the ownership of web3 triggered some choice debate.
Kickstarter's Embrace of Celo Blockchain May Lead to Token for Crowdfunding Giant
Crowndfunding giant Kickstarter has embraced the Celo blockchain, sparking questions about whether it might issue a token to reward investors.
J1mmy, Kingship and SupDucks' FrankyNines
This week we’re joined by Jim McNelis whose collection of BAYC has just been signed to Universal in a landmark record deal through 10:22pm UMG’s next-gen Web3 label. J1mmy is an avid NFT collector and the CEO and cofounder of…
Discord-MetaMask Tease Triggers Backlash Against NFTs
A modest proposal to bring together Discord and MetaMask triggered a fierce backlash against NFTs.
The Metaverse is So Hot Right Now: Here’s How Top Investors are Separating Opportunity from Hype
Top investors share how they're playing the development of the metaverse as hype explodes.
How DAOs are Challenging VCs in the Race to Fund Web3 Projects
Lukas Schor writes about how DAOs are challenging the traditional model venture capitalists have long used to invest in tech startups.
Solana Powers Up Web3 Gaming Projects with $100M Funding Deal
Solana led a $100M funding round in Web3 ventures.
The US Treasury Is Terrified of Stablecoins
Are you bored of hearing about FATF and regulations? It probably isn’t even on your radar right now. And let’s face it there are a thousand other entry points to this space that are just frankly, a lot more interesting.…
Own Your Ethereum Name with ENS
The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on the Ethereum blockchain. ENS’s job is to map human-readable names like ‘alp. eth’ to machine-readable identifiers such as Ethereum addresses, other cryptocurrency addresses, content hashes,…
DeFi Alliance Announces New Hires as Web3 Continues to Attract Talent
Web3’s growing market cap continues to serve as a magnet to bring talent into the blockchain-enabled space. DeFi Alliance, the startup accelerator akin to Y Combinator but for DeFi, has poached three superstars who hail from Blackrock, Facebook and Lambda…
NFT Profile Pics on Twitter: Will @Jack’s DeFi Move be a Game Changer?
A growing category of social media users now prefers using cartoons rather than their own photos to identify themselves online. They especially like cartoons that are as unique as their real faces. Non-fungible token (NFT) technology makes it easy for…
What Is the Metaverse? Metaverse 101
This is the Defiant’s foundational guide to the Metaverse. It would take way way too long to go into all the different expressions of the Metaverse but this is our view of how the core of this exciting new space…
Twitter Goes Full Crypto With Bitcoin Tips and a NFT Avatar Tool
Twitter is going big into crypto starting today. Twitter is making two major updates that will make cryptocurrency integral to its product, with more likely to come. Tipping on Twitter is expanding globally today to everyone on Apple’s iOS, and…
How to Prioritize Ethereum Transactions with Eden Network
Eden is a priority transaction network that protects traders from frontrunning, aligns incentives for block producers, and redistributes miner extractable value.
Owners of Internet Domain Names Can Start Receiving Crypto With Their Addresses
Domain name owners can now start receiving crypto, including BTC, ETH and NFTs thanks to an integration with Ethereum Name Service. Any domain name, including .com and .cash, can now be a public address for payments across any blockchain. Brantly…
Twitter Drops 140 Free NFTs on Rarible
Twitter is on Rarible. Yes, the gigantic social media platform. That Twitter. On June 30, the official Twitter account tweeted that it was giving away 140 free NFTs based on the platform’s aesthetic, brand and memes. These one-of-twenty edition NFTs…
AP Auction of NFTs Ushers in New Era for Digital Media
It’s official: NFTs have gone totally mainstream. That’s the upshot from the announcement that the Associated Press, the 175-year-old paragon of traditional media, is planning to auction off 10 one-of-a-kind NFTs to celebrate its iconic photojournalism. Among the offerings: an…
WTF Is Bitclout!!?? Your Questions Answered (Mostly)
I always want to give things the benefit of the doubt, try and see the positives but I’ve never come across a project that I found as hard to like as this one. So let’s give it a fair shake…
BitClout's Insiders-Only Pre-Launch Overshadows Social Media Revamp
BitClout, a blockchain-based social networking platform branding itself on the ability to speculate on celebrities’ social media presence with real money, officially launches today. But while BitClout’s novel premise has drummed up support amongst big-name investment firms, its password-locked pre-launch…
Billions of Users Can Now Access .Crypto Domains
Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure provider, now supports Unstoppable Domains’s .crypto domain name resolution. This will allow billions of users to access web content hosted on decentralized storage like IPFS and routed using blockchain-based domains. By using Cloudflare’s DNS over HTTPS,…
Reddit Doubles Down on Web3 With EF Partnership
Reddit announced a partnership with the Ethereum Foundation, a sign it’s betting on a more decentralized internet and doubling down on the leading smart contract platform. The social media company and the foundation started collaborating last year with the Scaling…
Trump’s Deplatforming Has Crypto Leaders Calling For Decentralization
While half of America likely cheered the deplatforming of Donald Trump, crypto was calling for decentralized social media. Facebook and Twitter have banned the President from their networks, while Google and Apple have taken rightwing social network Parler, off their…
Podcast
Social Tokens: Plague or Paradigm Shift? The Answer Might Surprise You.
Social Tokens… very few token types elicit such a strong reaction amongst the cryptoscenti. From $HUE to $COIN to $JAMM a new wave of experimentalists are carving out unique ideas to explore what’s possible under tokenised models. Most will fail, some (many?) are scams. But…
The Defiant's Definitive Guide to DeFi
The Defiant is the leading information company at the intersection of tech and money. It’s the only content platform producing unbiased, objective journalism, that’s focused on decentralized finance. We cover the news in this space day to day, across our newsletter, podcast, YouTube channel, and website.
This guide is meant to be a one-stop-shop to get started. These are all the DeFi basics you will need to start exploring the internet of money.
