🧅 Layers of (de)centralization
May 09, 2023The internet is a big onion 🧅. It’s made of layers slowly but surely stacked at every new iteration. The layers are themselves more or less…
Written by Julien Genestoux. Entrepreneur, Hacker, Investor & Advisor You should follow me on Bluesky and Farcaster
Joining The Graph Council
April 24, 2023The Graph is a very ambitious and powerful web3 project. It is an indexing protocol for querying data from networks like EVM blockchains…
The Myth of Immutability
March 27, 2023Crypto had a bad rep. There are many reasons why, but i also think it’s misunderstood, both by its critics (haters?) and fans (cultists…
Decentralized memberships
November 22, 2022The arrival of Elon Musk as Twitter’s new CEO has been a watershed moment in the history of Twitter. The company became private again, he…
Protocols over Platforms
July 30, 2022Rather than write about web3 again, I want to write about web1: the 90's. At that time, I used something called Communicator. You can think of it as a suite of internet clients and applications. Of course, it had Navigator, a web browser, but also a Messenger for emails, a news client, and even a push system.