The Economists Knew All Along! — During NFT Connect Austin, we held a panel on utility, and the conversations we had stuck with me — for no other reason than the word “utility.” But unfortunately, I don’t think we finished the discussion right. I still think all the “look, it’s worth money! …

The “D” in DAO: Decentralized — When we hear decentralization positioned in cool tech terms such as “the Decentralized Web” or “Decentralized Apps (Daaps),” many of us fail to visualize what it means. Some of us even struggle to appreciate the significance of “decentralization.” In my cryptocurrency and blockchain course, I explain the concept of a…

The Decentralized Autonomous Organization Story: Voting — The goal of this piece is to explain how members would operate in the DAO. DAO (pronounced “DOW”) is at its core, an organization. An organization can be a club, a “guild,” a fraternity, a sorority, a PTO, a company, a charity, or an investment club. …

Your Activity Has Direct Bearing Your Wealth Growth — If you're reading this, someone told you about a unique token called "Seedz" (it's not a misspelling). Seedz could very well be the avenue towards a better understanding of cryptocurrency and — if you're lucky — an avenue towards you growing your capital into generational wealth. Interested? Let's go. In…

Asset-Backed NFTs Will Free Us All in DeFi — If Financial Engineers and Cryptocurrency Developers had a love child, they’d call it “Decentralized Finance.” Today that love-child (fondly called “DeFi”) has over $50 billion total locked-in value and is creating millions and millions more in value for those who operate in this sector of crypto. The version of DeFi…

A Cautionary Tale and Tips on How to Not Panic — One of the promises we make to our community is to go out of our way to ensure that they know what they can do to remain protected. So today, when I came across a disturbing story about a mobile phone and crypto exploit that had been going on since…

CoinGecko Launch and BEES.Social Partnership — This is only the first of quite a few wPE announcements about wPE. We’re pretty excited about what we’ve been able to do since November and it looks like the market thinks so too! Check us out here: https://info.uniswap.org/token/0xd075e95423c5c4ba1e122cae0f4cdfa19b82881b

The DeFi Revolution Is Only One Click Away — In late September 2020, the team at Opes.Finance (the team behind wPE) released “Beast Mode” to the world. Things haven’t been quite the same since. The Setup In a “normal” yielding and staking arrangement, one would expect to yield a token-based upon their percentage makeup of the staking pool multiplied by the…

Efficiently Budgeting for Gas Fees and Beast Mode to Start — Psst. If you aren’t using BEES.Social to run Uniswap token swaps and add capital to Uniswap liquidity pools; not only are you in the slow lane — you’re also paying more. If you’re reading this, we assume you’ve read the 1-step guide but want a little more. A “little more”…