Originally posted on Archetype Mirror Written by Katie Chiou Earlier this year, my colleague Benji Funk wrote a piece called “Crypto-Powered Information Games” detailing the design space for coordinating, aggregating, and rewarding quality information across decentralized networks. Benji’s post begins with the following thesis: “Humans have an inhe

FarCon was a whirlwind of excitement and optimism. The energy IRL was electric and paying for everything on-site entirely onchain felt magical. I was also absolutely shocked by the tremendous quality of projects that I had the opportunity to judge at FarHack. Talented builders of all types—from Farcaster-native founders to freelance developers to m

Originally posted on Archetype Mirror Written by Katie Chiou IN CONVERSATION WITH is a series from Archetype where we interview artists in/at the edges of crypto across music, visual art, design, curation, and more. André Allen Anjos, professionally known as RAC, is a Grammy award-winning musician, record producer, and DJ. RAC is most notably known

Written by Katie Chiou I recently wrote a post on my personal blog about the state of the music industry, spanning the economics of streaming to social discovery to the role of media publications in elevating artists. The general thesis was that the music ecosystem is extremely complex and esoteric, and we’re overdue for new models and new platform

Originally posted on Archetype Mirror Written by Katie Chiou Gaming has always operated at the absolute cutting edge of technology. The earliest video games (think Pong, Space Invaders, Doom, Quake) were deceptively simple, but pushed the limits of early computer graphics and network capabilities—eventually birthing companies like NVIDIA, which wou

Originally posted on Archetype Mirror Written by Katie Chiou, Graeme Boy The word that best sums up consumer technology in the 2010s is gamification. In retrospect, this makes sense, given where technology was at the time. We were entering the mobile and the social eras simultaneously, where everyone essentially now had a connected, networked game

Originally posted on Archetype Mirror Written by Katie Chiou Communities and cultures are nourished by rich context. Historically, context was a natural product of communities that were local and physically constrained. The internet ushered in a Cambrian explosion of connection, allowing us to find each other while thousands of miles apart. People

Originally posted on Archetype Mirror Written by Nick Pai, Katie Chiou At Archetype, we believe that understanding where new interoperability projects are positioned within the infrastructure stack is crucial to making sound investment decisions. The technical stack for blockchain infrastructure has changed drastically over the years, demanding tha

Originally posted on Archetype Mirror Written by Katie Chiou, Benjamin Funk We’ve seen a lot of lively discussion (and sometimes confusion) around What a sequencer actually does–is it building blocks? Is it proposing blocks? both? How does MEV look different on L2s? What are intents, preferences, and meta-transactions? Why do they matter?

Cover Image: Adam Ho Working in crypto has always garnered a lot of intrigue (and sometimes skepticism) from the people around me, but in the aftermath of some of the most disastrous crypto headlines in history, I’ve been fielding more questions than ever before. My answer is always some variation of the same: “It’s an incredible time to be in cry