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March 30th, 2023
It’s been 14 years since the Bitcoin whitepaper was released and most people still don’t understand the power of web3 tools like NFTs and smart contract platforms. To change the narrative, we need more killer apps.
March 22nd, 2023
Most web3 builders and investors I’ve spoken to recently believe that mainstream adoption is still being held back by lack of infrastructure. The sentiment is that we need better wallets, alt L1s, rollups, rollups on rollups, multi-chain bridges, web3-native growth tools, etc.
November 3rd, 2022
Hey everyone 👋 My name is Patrick Rivera and for the past few weeks I’ve been working on a new project.
Thoughts on DAO Tooling
March 23rd, 2022
DAO tooling is all the rage these days. Thoughts on challenges and opportunities in the space.
Community DAOs
September 2nd, 2021
In crypto land, 2020 was all about DeFi. So far, 2021 has been about NFTs (hot jpeg summer anyone?)
May 12th, 2021
Welcome 👋
April 20th, 2021
"Come for the tool, stay for the network" is a classic strategy for bootstrapping social networks. It aimed to solve a hard problem: how do you convince people to join your social network when there's nobody else to socialize with?
March 31st, 2021
One of the cool things about working at a startup is that you get to wear a lot hats.
March 8th, 2021
Three months ago, I was catching up with one of my previous engineering managers. He told me about a new startup he joined called Mirror which was building a decentralized protocol for writers.