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Blockchain fit

Decide What Actually Belongs on a Blockchain

We still see a lot of decks with a slide that basically says, “we’ll put everything on-chain.” It sounds bold and “web3-native,” but it’s usually…

6 min read · May 8, 2026
Web3 history & foundations

What Non-Technical Founders Should Actually Learn From Bitcoin

Every few weeks a founder tells me they’ll “get serious about crypto” once they’ve read the Bitcoin whitepaper. That’s like saying you’ll really understand Uber…

5 min read · May 8, 2026
Web3 history & foundations

Web3 as an Evolutionary System: From Bitcoin to Real-World Symbiosis

Most people still slice web3 into “cycles”: 2013, 2017, DeFi summer, NFTs, RWAs. That’s a trader’s lens. If you’re building, it doesn’t help much. A…

6 min read · May 7, 2026
Founder-stage advisory

Use Telegram as a Product Lab, Not a Hype Room

Most web3 founders treat Telegram like a megaphone: blast an announcement, sprinkle in an airdrop, drop a meme to keep the chart-watchers around. Then hope…

6 min read · May 7, 2026
Token mechanics

Avoid Ponzinomics When You Design Consumer Tokens

Most “ponzinomics” doesn’t start with villains; it starts with a decent team staring at a flat price chart. You launch a token, CT shrugs, so…

5 min read · May 7, 2026
Accelerators / funding

How To Run Public-By-Default Investor Updates in Web3

In web2, investor updates disappear into private Notion pages and quarterly PDFs nobody opens. In web3, your cap table lives on-chain, your community lives on…

7 min read · May 5, 2026
Accelerators / funding

Investor’s Scoring Unveiled: 6 Pillars VCs Actually Use

Most founders obsess over pitch decks. Most investors don’t. They’re not deciding on slide 7 — they’re deciding in the first five minutes whether what…

9 min read · May 5, 2026
Token mechanics

Designing war-resilient NFT and data infra

Over the past year we’ve watched missiles take out data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, and ransomware crews walk straight into Jaguar Land Rover’s…

7 min read · May 4, 2026
Token mechanics

Designing milestone‑pegged unlocks and MM to keep token price honest

Each cycle, a new wave of founders convinces itself that a “fair launch” will keep the token price honest. No insiders, no presale, no VCs…

8 min read · May 4, 2026
Founder-stage advisory

The 5 founder traps before your first token round

Web3 doesn’t pay out on “solid doubles.” It’s built for leverage: you either ship championship‑grade outcomes, or you detonate in public. Tokens turn the dial…

7 min read · May 4, 2026