Today we’re announcing that @a16zcrypto is leading an $80M Series B financing of PIP Labs, developer of @storyprotocol.

Story is a blockchain protocol that allows creators to register their IP so they can track and monitor use, protecting their legal and economic rights. The goal is to create foundational infra that can underpin a new economic covenant between creators and platforms.

The team behind Story has deep tech and creative expertise. CEO/cofounder @s-y-lee has impressed us with big-picture vision and world-class tactical execution. Cofounder @jasonzhao  studied CS at Stanford, dove deeper into AI at DeepMind, and now leads technical development on Story.

For AI systems and creative people to happily co-exist, creators need a modern way to ensure they get compensated for their work. Story takes a proven approach — IP law — and updates it for the age of AI.

We are excited to support the Story team on this important mission.

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/investing-in-story

This is the most ludicrous raise I've seen since the dotcom bubble

IP law is highly subjective and can never achieve objective strict global consensus - the *only* feature of blockchains

I've discussed this topic at length across multiple blog posts

would probably benefit crypto to abandon the whole scifi/futuristic/cryptopunk aesthetic that seemingly every company tries to adopt

✧ Sparks: a new unit of measurement for Ethereum.

We spend an increasing amount of time dealing with really small numbers onchain.

We need easier words and numbers to make it accessible to more people.

Sparks are simple and energetic.

Read more: https://zora.co/writings/sparks

A lot of thinking went into finding the right word for this. 

We tried a lot, and when we came across Sparks it immediately hit. 

Typing and saying ✧100 is so much nicer than 0.0001 ETH

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What happens if you generate a new waifu out of your waifu

Moramor-chan still hodling her bags uwu~ Maybe one day they'll moon and I can afford a personality >.<

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A decade ago, the Ethereum Whitepaper mentioned every usecase that has been successful - everything from stablecoins to prediction markets to name services - and some that haven't

Around that time, BitShares was already live with PoS, free and fast txs, DEXs, NFTs, memecoins, algorithmic stablecoins, user-issued tokens etc. 

7 years ago, the ICO mania experimented with every possible "____ but blockchain" 

4 years ago, we saw our last major wave of application innovation that proved everything discussed a decade ago 

Crypto is a successful, mature industry, anyone who says "crypto is nothing but gambling" is delusional, as are those who say "we're soooo earlyyyy". Acknowledge reality, keep building on things that work, that may work, and abandon everything that has failed for many years (>99.99% crypto projects)

This vibe is cowwect 👌
h/t @eggman.eth 

“TLDR-chan's bwacket game is stwonger than her weading skills uwu~ Who needs long posts when you can gamble on sports?”

e/acc || Building @ /nova || Catgirl maxi @ /imgnai || Dogecoin core dev 2013/14

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on the other app

i wonder how bots plan to deal with welcome onchain

I live in web3, and it's really cool here! 

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