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. Mike Pollard is the CEO and Co-founder of Nina Protocol, alongside Eric Farber and Jack Callahan. Mike is also a musician and has released his own music under the projects

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 inherent desire to create, search for, and

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. Adam Ho is a designer and artist based in Queens, NY. He currently runs Adam Ho, I.S.P., his own independent studio practice. Adam’s primary focus is on creating large-scal

Written By Benjamin Funk In the nine years since Ethereum launched the first decentralized, programmable blockchain, crypto has faced multiple roadblocks in the quest to scale decentralized applications to billions of users. In the process of developing scaling solutions to address this, the crypto industry has continuously funded and developed ent

Written by Benjamin Funk Our brains, books, and databases serve as both the recipients and creators of humans’ ever-increasing propensity to produce data. The latest in this long lineation—the internet—generates and stores about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day. While it’s easy to look at this number in awe, data points in and of themselves of

Written by Nick Pai This post is divided into two sections. First, I describe my belief that chain abstraction infrastructure is vital for consumer adoption of crypto and that intent-based architecture is the best way to engineer it. Second, I describe the main obstacle toward broader adoption of intents: solver network liveness. I end the piece wi

Written by Dmitriy Berenzon Verifiable compute is poised to become as important of a technological revolution as blockchain itself. It encompasses the commercialization of various cryptographic techniques that can be collectively as impactful for blockchains as HTTPS has been for the internet. While many technological hurdles and barriers to adopti

Written by Katie Chiou Jared Madere is an artist and curator based in New York, as well as the Co-founder of Galerie Yeche Lange. The Yeche Lange team also includes Milo Conroy, Wretched Worm, Miles Peyton, Supermetal Bosch, Anastasios Karnazes, and Hikkimourning. Yeche Lange has collaborated with crypto-native communities including little swag wor

Written by Katie Chiou André Allen Anjos, professionally known as RAC, is a Grammy award-winning musician, record producer, and DJ. RAC is most notably known for pushing the boundaries of remixing, expanding the historically dance-forward genre to include indie and rock. RAC has released 200+ remixes over the course of his career, which you can lis

Written by Danny Sursock The best part of ETHDenver 2024 was watching two opposing groups collide in a classic left-curve / right-curve debate. One arrived with a risk-on, full send mentality in anticipation of a coming mega cycle. The other came in struggling to find the fundamentals to make sense of today’s market euphoria. In the short term, I t