Conference Season
Rug the Privacy, Not the Money
When a Cypherpunk Says 'Permissioned' (Ameen Soleimani's presentation Privacy Without Terrorists was featured as a part of the Ethereum Privacy Stack at Devconnect 2025. You can watch it for yourself on the Web3Privacy Now YouTube channel.) We are halfway through the...
Devconnect 2025: An App for That
(This is an EVMavericks production.) During Devconnect 2025 in Buenos Aires, payment apps that bridge stablecoins to Argentina's peso economy were launching, updating, and competing for users. I tested as many of them as I could. Here's what worked, what didn't, and...
Can I pay with this?
Can I Pay With This? A stablecoin experiment in Buenos Aires Hello from Devconnect! I got here early and spent a week trying to understand how Decentralized Finance works on a practical level, as a new visitor with no contacts. I did it, kinda, sorta. It was an...
Living on a Vaccine Passport and a Prayer
I nodded to let her know that I was taking her advice seriously, while wondering how likely it was that I would be bitten by a monkey attending an Ethereum conference in Buenos Aires and also how it was that the nurse knew the English word for “monkey” but not the word for “uncooked food.”
No One Stopped Me (ETHBelgrade Hackathon)
I went all the way to ETHBelgrade for my first hackathon. I didn't ship a dApp. I don't code. I learned to program in LISP at university, which has given me a phobia of unclosed parentheticals but not much in the way of practical relevance. For reasons that I don't...
I went to ETHPrague so you don’t have to (but you should)
I arrived at Holešovice market feeling anxious. This was my first Ethereum event, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. A security guard stood ramrod straight in front of an ETHPrague banner, like the hall needed protecting from unknown hordes. He glanced at my wrist dismissively and pointed at the next building.
AITA for token-gating my wedding?
I (29M) recently got married to my now-wife (31F), who I met through our DAO. We're both pretty active in the Ethereum space: she is a dev at a well-known L2, I do governance and token design. We've shipped stuff together. We both thought it made sense to design a...
Dreams of Decentralization: Tim Berners-Lee and Vitalik Buterin
This is an EVMavericks Production By the time the two men reached the main stage at ETHPrague, affectionately known as Root, every chair in the room was taken. We spilled along the walls, hovered by the entrance or watched the live stream in the two smaller conference...
Proof of Humanity (Terms and Conditions Apply)
On the surface, their product, Self Protocol, offers a smart, privacy-focused solution to identity in an age of AI hot takes, bots and Sybils. I was fascinated by the idea of a self-sovereign identity layer which would offer a massive increase in personal privacy. It all sounded very sensible, in the way that IKEA instructions sound sensible until you try to assemble the thing and end up crying on the floor.
ETHPrague: We are LARPing at privacy
What I expected: Privacy is hard but we are getting there. What I heard: We know it’s broken. We’ve known for years. And no one really wants to fix it.