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The Airdrop Economy: How Crypto Projects Bootstrap Communities & Solve the Cold Start Problem
Web3 token airdrops solve the "cold start problem" by giving up to 50% of supply to early users. Learn how Uniswap, BONK, and others use strategic distributions to build communities and create aligned incentives.
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The Polygon-GSR backed chain enters a sector where monthly volumes have hit $739 billion — but where Hyperliquid already commands the majority of open interest
Clarity Cuts Both Ways: The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act Exposes DeFi’s Legal Contradictions
Draft rules for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act are exposing contradictions at the heart of web3 lobbying, as industry players push back against the very DeFi exemptions and developer protections they once demanded.
Blockcast 86 | Licensed to Shill: Designing Decentralization: Governance, Power, and the Validator Problem
This episode digs into what actually happens after a protocol says it’s “decentralized.” Not the whitepaper version. The operational version.
Blockcast 84 | Licensed to Shill: What's in Store for 2026 – Stablecoins, the Future of DeFi.. and a Return of NFTs?
Licensed to Shill opens 2026 with a forward-looking conversation on the forces shaping the next phase of digital assets.
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Crypto-Native Rails Becoming Top Infra for AI Commerce
AI agents are moving from recommendation to execution, turning commerce into a stream of autonomous transactions—and pushing payments infrastructure away from cards toward crypto-native rails built for speed, scale, and machine-driven demand.
CoinShares Drops 22% on Nasdaq Debut Day
CSHR closed its first session down more than $2 as sell-the-news pressure and a weak crypto market greeted the European asset manager's long-awaited U.S. listing.
Franklin Templeton Acquires CoinFund Spin-Off, Creates Dedicated Crypto Division
The $1.7 trillion asset manager is buying 250 Digital — a liquid crypto strategies firm spun out of CoinFund — and will pay partly in tokenized money market shares, making it one of the first M&A deals to settle on-chain.
OpenAI's $122 Billion Raise Validates the Decentralized AI Case
As frontier AI consolidates around massive capital requirements, the economic argument for distributed compute networks grows sharper. The question is no longer whether alternatives exist, but whether they can scale before the winners are decided.