Let’s start by establishing terminologies that will be referenced throughout this article. Decentralized Identity (DID) or self-sovereign identity (SSI) is an open standard based framework that uses identifiers & verifiable credentials that are self-owned, independent and enable trusted data exchange. Credential / Attestation / Verifiable Credential (VC) / POAP /…

Financializing NFTs was the much-anticipated hype of Q3 — Q4 2021 but its adoption has been on a standstill. While the NFT markets continue to have a good year in 2022 (not as good as 2021), financializing them hasn’t worked as well as previously anticipated. Foundational problems like oracles for…

Next generation of cultural movement, interactions and engagements Roll is a social token issuance platform with over 40 creator coins trading on Uniswap and over 350 creator communities who minted ERC-20 creator and community coins. Social tokens represent participation and ownership in a particular community or DAO. The platform aims…

And the value capture in the NFT markets, upcoming use cases& the dark side of the ecosystem. This is part 4 of the NFT Series; 1) What is an NFT, 2) NFT Tech Stack and, 3) Financialization of NFTs. Visa bought CryptoPunk for $150k, pumping the Punk floor price to…

In the last post we covered what is an NFT and its basic classification. In this article we will cover in-detail the NFT tech stack and some of the use cases that have developed in the last few months. Layer 1: NFT Infrastructure The NFT blockchain layer has existed for…

The article was originally published for Chinese media on March 15th. Part 1 of the NFT series. Anyone and everyone plugged into the tech industry has heard about NFTs in the last 2 months or so. They’ve seen Beeple, Mark Cuban, Chamath and other KOLs mention their investments in NFTs…

There’s nothing traditional about being a venture capital ? Wrong. The institutionalization was first done during 1940s by Georges Doriot who founded the very first publicly owned Venture Fund: American Research, and Development Corporation (ARDC). Before that the wealthy families like the Rockefeller and the Vanderbilt funded ambitious businesses and…

This is a continuation of IOSG’s #14 newsletter with a twist. In the new format of our newsletters, we will cover broad subjects like community, governance, token economics, etc. In the first category we’re going to discuss Community in DeFi. As a new entrant in the blockchain/DeFi space, the idea…

Automating continuous & risk-free payment management Today employees get paid at the end of the month (or biweekly if you’re in the US) and receive balloon payments on their bonuses (usually annually). Customers pay the streaming companies like Netflix, Spotify and Hulu annually or monthly for their services. Gamers pay…