Winter is coming, and as the season changes, so does the market. Before we cut on our auto-email replies and scurry away to family asking us a litany of questions once more, let’s not forget the basics. …

For academics and cryptoeconomic researchers, it’ll help if you’ve read our prior works leading up to this. This will ensure you’ve a full understanding of this holistic thinking approach: Part 1: https://amentum.substack.com/p/permaculture-and-crypto-green-with Part 2: https://amentum.substack.com/p/from-walled-gardens-to-community Part 3: https://amentum.substack.com/p/the-case-for-non-universal-chains

Bootstrapping the New Internet with a Universal Anchor — By: Steven McKie (Amentum Capital) and Zach Brown (The Shake); this post was published on BlockChannel on May 6, 2022. Enabling universal sign-ins and identity for crypto is a complex problem. We’ve seen over the last decade or so many various attempts, from Namecoin, to Ethereum’s ENS “domains”; and most…

Understanding the Evolution of Crypto Networks — Marc Andreessen said years ago that software is eating the world. The metaphor was perfect: flattening, crushing, and transforming social life into a uniform substance for investors to digest. Today the world is fighting back under the banner of “plurality.” The world doesn’t want to be a uniform substance —…

A Path to a Regenerative Future — By: Divya Siddarth and Steven McKie It can often seem like the crypto ecosystem is predicated upon an idea of infinite wealth through speculation. Real world resources, by contrast, seem like finite things connected to real needs. Neither is quite true. There are limits to speculation. …

A New Monetary Perspective — Money is fundamentally broken and it has two core problems. Bitcoin addresses Money Problem #1. But we should start focusing on Money Problem #2. Readjusting our collective perspective will unlock much more value than Bitcoin alone ever could. Before we explain Money’s Problems, let’s take a step back. Money is…

2020 COVID-19 Check-In — By: Matthew Prewitt (Twitter) COVID-19 is casting a bright light on the tension between the individual and the collective. On one hand, the crisis demands a coordinated response at the national and global levels. It is no longer possible even to imagine ourselves as self-sufficient individuals. …

The Search for Decentralized Identity — With the rise of naming related protocols and services like Handshake and the Ethereum Name Service, it’s important that we understand human-readable names online, and why it’s critical for us to eventually land on a solution that makes sense, globally. Our Missing Identity Many blockchain “ecosystem” projects aim to create environments for economic…

Understanding the Incentive Mechanics of Cent — If you haven’t heard of the Cent Network, now’s the time to really look in-depth to understand one of the most intriguing and advanced platforms for mainstream adoption for Ethereum, to date. Built atop Web3, Cent is a social network that abstracts away many of the headaches of Web3 by…