Dear reader, Before we go snowballing down the mountainside and delve into the Avalanche ecosystem, we need to come to agreement on one thing: consensus. Cryptocurrencies are assets that live upon their respective blockchains and these blockchains are meaningless if they cannot be trusted to carry out their core tasks…

Dear reader, Isn’t this crypto space chaotically complex and confoundingly confusing? It’s one thing to try and wrap your head around a virtual money called Bitcoin, but push a little further and you’ll enter the world of sidechains, layer 2s, zero knowledge, etc. You may as well get a pan…

What’s new in 2023? It’s been a while since I took a look at Polygon. The last time I paid close attention was when I wrote up my deep dive in July 2022, at which point MATIC had pretty much tripled in value since the LUNA / 3AC crash. Fast…

And who should write it? Would you let your plumber fix your car’s engine? Would you let your kid’s teacher install your double glazing? Probably not. Different tasks require different profiles, and the same goes for writing. We can get more granular. Would you hire a sports writer to write…

I recently penned the white paper for Cyber Syndicate, an upcoming GameFi project set to launch in the Sandbox metaverse. Here’s how we worked it out from initial concept to final product. First Contact Aaron Ferris, founder at Cyber Syndicate, initially got in touch with me to support his upcoming NFT GameFi…

Dear reader, What a messed up year it’s been! We knew that crypto would get messy after Bitcoin reached its all-time high last November but few could have accurately predicted the chaotic shambles we’d find ourselves in now. First we saw the incredible exposure of Wonderland’s 0xSifu, aka Michal Patryn…

Dear reader, As I sit here basking in the glory of my freshly minted Tezos NFTs, I thought I’d recount my journey from being a clueless, tezless nobody, to a slightly clued in, little more tezzed, word minter. So, where to begin… Noise.app I made the permanent switch to Noise.app now…

Dear reader, There are many benefits to working as a freelancer that I’m starting to appreciate. One such thing took me by surprise however: customer service. I used to work in customer service in that stint of mine in corporation land. It was awful. I would dread the phone ringing…

Dear reader, It’s been a while since my last freelancer update, so I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on all that’s been going on since then. Milestone Met I suppose the most important milestone was successfully setting up my independent seller status, complete with VAT number, expenses, accountant, etc. It’s…