Van H.

I know people are going to act surprised, do the whole “omg Farcaster is dead” usual CT drama… But if you’ve been watching closely, it felt like Farcaster was heading into its next phase. Not because Farcaster wasn’t building. Not because the idea was bad. It’s just that crypto social is HARD, and Farcaster reached that point where the vision and the reality start fighting each other. And now Neynar is taking over. The crazy part is… Farcaster started super pure. Dan left Coinbase with this one strong th...

For a while, InfoFi (Information Finance) felt like the next obvious chapter in crypto. But InfoFi isn’t dead, it’s evolving (and that’s a good thing) The idea was simple and powerful: If information moves markets, then people who generate high-quality information should be rewarded. Not just influencers with reach but researchers, analysts, builders, and early signal-spotters who consistently add real value. And honestly, that vision still makes sense. But what’s changed is this: the first wave of InfoF...

Real privacy for computation enforced by hardware, not trust. Your computer can see everything you do… except what runs inside a TEE. Most of us assume “secure computing” means strong passwords, encrypted disks, and locked-down cloud servers. But in reality, the biggest weakness isn’t always the app you’re using, it’s the layer underneath it. Operating systems get compromised. Admin accounts get abused. Cloud workloads get inspected. Logs get copied. Memory gets scraped. So the real question becomes: Wh...