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The AI and DAOs Edition

In this edition, our investment partner Daniel lays out AI’s resource problem—and how crypto solves it. Jesse looks at the boom of AI “agents” onchain and sees it as a potential starting point for truly autonomous DAOs. Then Daniel suggests two tools that protocols can use to deal with “squishy/dynamic problems” DAOs aren’t suited for.

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UFO

UFO's Community Forum is Live Today

UFO is a broadcast platform that’s reinventing radio. Today we’re opening a community forum as a new communications channel. It’s our group chat, message board and community server.

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RM

AI Overshoot

I recently started reading the book How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm. Although I’m not finished yet, the book examines how we’ve collectively accepted rising global temperatures and the reality of climate change—but also how we seem to be betting on future technologies to save us down the line. The idea is that someday we’ll invent systems that will reverse the damage. A hundred years from now, things might be “back to normal,” though in the meanti...

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Hard Mode First

Bethany Crystal

Micro-Apps are the Modern Day Mixtape

Blow up those inflatable chairs and stock up your gift cards to Auntie Anne’s pretzel shops kids, because the time of the modern-day mixtape is upon us.

#ai#technology#throwback#nostalgia#microapps
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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Away from home

I just read about a popular co-working company in New York called Framework. The concept is super simple. They rent single-person office pods (see above). Each one is sound insulated and has a sitting/standing desk, a filing cabinet, a kettle, a french press, and a small fridge. And at their latest location in Williamsburg, these rent for $820 per month. Their tagline is "your home office away from home" and I think that's a good way of describing the offering. Because let's consider the math...

#co-working#framework#new-york#office-space#work
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ETH Daily

ETH Daily

Court Overturns Tornado Cash Sanctions

The court ruled that the U.S. Treasury exceeded its statutory authority and immutable smart contracts do not qualify as property under IEEPA.

#news#2025#january2025
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The Black Dave Report

Black Dave

2025ibes

Yo! Been a second! I've been heads down in Yards (and probably a bunch of other shit), but wanted to sit down and organize my thoughts around 2025 for me and-me adjacent people. I'm listening to Lapalux while working on this, specifically the album When You're Gone, in case you wanna synchronize vibes as you read this. This is a very selfish post, all about me. Thanks for caring.Black Dave MK2Last year in August, I finally released an album I've been talking about and tinkering with for a lon...

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Seed Club

Cheryl Douglass

2 girls 1 quest 1 strategic bitcoin reserve

we went to the inaugural crypto ball so you didn't have to

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Mosaic of thoughts

Nao

Losing my idealism

Cover: Augustus Vincent Tack's "Time and Timelessness" - I loved this one in the Denver Art MuseumDuring an AI agents meetup, I went to this year, I had the audacity to ask the panel a question they didn't see coming. Why they didn't see it coming is not that big of a mystery. Tech, especially as edgy as ours, often has a tendency to detach its developers from the lived reality of what we lovingly call normies. That includes not thinking much about what actually motivates people to overcome i...

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Paragraph Picks

Reid DeRamus

Paragraph Picks (Vol. 29)

We're back with the 29th edition of Paragraph Picks, highlighting a few hand-selected pieces from the past couple of weeks.

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Subset

Matthew McDowell-Sweet

We made sharing legible

The new version of Subset allows you to connect sharing actions to sharing outcomes. Say you've saved something to Subset. Now, you can share it to X, maybe adding an excerpt or special note. That share gets recorded and becomes searchable within Subset. Later, you can link the outcome (the X post URL) to the share record. You can get Subset on iOS via TestFlight and try this out now. Or you can see it in action on the Subset landing page. This isn't an ideal approach, by any means. But right...

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Ex Machina

Rahul Matthan

Taking Stock

It has been over a year since we started to deploy DPI across the globe and it has not been easy. Despite global endorsements and multilateral commitments, actual deployment is hard. But looking back it is quite remarkable how much we have actually managed to achieve.

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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Sundance

Tomorrow is opening day for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in Park City and Salt Lake City. This year it takes place from January 23 to February 2. For those of you who maybe aren't familiar, Sundance is the largest independent film festival in the US. In 2023, it had 423,234 combined in-person and online viewers, and, last year, it saw 72,840 in-person attendees (in a city with just over 8,000 people). So even though there's an online component, it's still very much an IRL experience. If an...

#sundance#park-city#parkview-mountain-house#pmh#utah#ski-utah#film-festival#sundance-film-festival
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Trust Me Bro Show

Trust Me Bro Show

Decentralised Data Marketplaces: Revolutionising Data Ownership

Welcome back to Unlocking the Future! In this edition, we’re exploring decentralised data marketplaces and their potential to transform data ownership, privacy, and monetisation.

#farcaster#lensprotocol#web3#blockchain#ai#data#unlockingthefuture#trustmebroshow#tech#openai#grok#decentralisedmarketplaces#aidata#oceanprotocol
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Hard Mode First

Bethany Crystal

When Traditional Leaders Fall Short, Look to the Shadows

What do you do when the leaders in your country or city or industry no longer inspire you? Do you take a step back, or do you step it up?

#leadership#motivation#inspiration#startups
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ETH Daily

ETH Daily

Obol Introduces $OBOL Airdrop

Obol is allocating 7.5% of the $OBOL token supply to a retroactive airdrop for the Obol Community.

#news#2025#january2025
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NFT Matrix

nftmatrix

NFT Matrix #74

Hi, and welcome to the newest edition of NFT Matrix, where I present NFT Artists’ / Artist’s work. The artist I am presenting is Gregorio Zenardi. Piece: “The suburban man” LinkArtist: “The suburban man goes about his routine not knowing that his life will end. The person is ambiguous, the soul is precise. If you don't want to see the light, there is no need to enter the storm. But you will lose your evolution, you will lose the purpose for which you are here. The soul is precise, don't be fo...

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WAC Chat

Jacque

Healing Vibes: Transmuting & Letting Go

Letting go, living past, Releasing the demons behind us…

#jacque#jacquec#poetry#art#healing#growth#stream of consciousness#2025
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