Satoshi convinced the world that the "Final Boss" of decentralization was the legacy banking system. The mission was clear: kill fiat, replace the central banker with a peer-to-peer ledger, and win the game of sovereignty.
But as we navigate 2026, replacing a bank has become a math problem.
Replacing a university is a human problem. Decentralizing education is a far more vital—and exponentially more difficult—mission than replacing the global financial stack.
The ledger of the mind is harder to flip than the ledger of the wallet.
Enter @dEduSchool
1/ 🚀 Excited to share my new research paper: "Progressive Autonomy in DAOs"! 🔍 If we want DAOs to change the world it is time to shift from human-centric to algorithmic governance (ALGov). This framework navigates that transformation! 📎https://t.co/PI9vtIbmEu @ResearchGate
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Today we launch The History of Bitcoin.
4.5 years. 128 artists. 100+ pioneer interviews. 300+ contributors.
Just as Bitcoin was built by open, global collaboration, this project mirrors that exact spirit.
Thread below 👇
1/ @ArtBasel Paris: Show Me the Digital Art is now live on @MagazineNFT
🔗https://t.co/L69kvLujOZ
It’s been super fun to write this piece, I brought together all the digital artworks I spotted at Art Basel’s 4th edition in Paris.
@owocki 1. Artsect Gallery/ DAO
2. London
3. 20 core, 200 artists, 100+ exhibitions
5. https://t.co/pdom8MaXrN
Instagram: https://t.co/7p56CSEmyu
6. We rent our immersive exhibition spaces, we create immersive experiences for clients and we sell artists work.
7. Successful since 2021
“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you haven’t first become ashes”
“I am a forest & a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness will find banks full of roses under my cypresses”
Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Extremely grateful to everyone who contributed to last weekend's Hack the System event, especially:
@crystalisr@LSBU for the organization, @a_vaunt, @ShardSpaceApp, @ArtSectDAO, @RegenCollectiv3, for their presentations, and @roehamptonUni for promoting the event so well.
The real breakthrough of the weekend was realizing that Atomix's matching engine can be used as the backend for a platform that would give South London's creatives a place to trade directly with their community, capturing more value from their work while strengthening local economic networks.
The next step is to turn this vision into reality for South London's creative community! Keep building 💪
You raised a $7M seed from Silicon Valley VCs.
You hired a KOL agency in Dubai.
But your users, they’re in Lagos, Manila, São Paulo, Accra, and Jakarta.
Still think you know your market or should I let you in on a secret that’s gonna determine your success?
If you’re a crypto founder…this will be the most important data you’ll see all year.
We just analyzed wallet activity of 15M users across @MetaMask , @phantom , @bitgetglobal , Coinbase Wallet, Rainbow, OKX, and more, layered with geolocation data from @addressableid (link in comments).
And what we found was a hard truth, this will shake your belief;
• The money is in the West.
• But most users are everywhere else.
The USA and Western Europe dominate transaction value.
But Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America dominate wallet volume.
This means, If your product runs on a fee model, you want capital density.
But if you need users, you’re probably building for the wrong continent.
Let’s make this real, I feel like you aren’t feeling the gravity yet:
Imagine a founder in Berlin.
They raise $4M and build an app on Arbitrum.
Target New York, and on launch day?
Their top users come from the Philippines. Nigeria. Brazil. Indonesia.
They’re on cheap Android phones.
They’re skipping your 50MB wallet SDK because it won’t load. They bounced and moved on.
Not because your product sucks, but because your assumptions do.
This isn’t a glitch, it’s a mirror.
The crypto revolution isn’t coming from where you pitch, it’s coming from where you’ve never looked.
And that’s a wake-up call:
Are you building for reach, or are you building for revenue?
Because the market that funds your runway
is not the same market that feeds your retention.
You can raise in Manhattan…but if you ignore Manila, you’ll stall.
You can plan for a TGE in Paris…but if you don’t localize for Lagos, you’ll bleed churn.
Here’s the paradox:
Most crypto products are funded by the West…but scaled by the rest.
If you don’t know that, you’re not in the game. You’re in the dark.
So ask yourself:
Who are you building for?
The VCs on your pitch deck, or the wallets that are actually active?
Because in crypto, users don’t follow your roadmap.
Your roadmap should follow your users.
🚨 THIS WEEKEND: Hack the System! 🚨
3 DAYS LEFT until we transform South London's creative economy with Web3 marketplaces that put community wealth over corporate profits.
🗓️ THIS FRIDAY 5PM - Sunday 4PM
📍 LSBU Croydon Campus (Room 214, Electric House)
🎯 100 changemakers, 3 days, infinite possibilities
Whether you're a Hipster (creative visionary), Hacker (tech builder), or Hustler (business mind) - your skills are needed to create platforms that keep money flowing in our neighborhoods, not Silicon Valley.
Register now at https://t.co/e57ZhX3SEd
See you Friday at 5PM! Let's show the world what community ownership looks like. 🌱⚡
#HackTheSystem #CommunityWealth #Web3 #SouthLondon #ThisWeekend
@caper_network@ShardSpaceApp@XRDegens@LSBU@RoehamptonUni@YourStMarys@ArtSectDAO@crystalisr@RegenCollectiv3
Honestly, this whole DAT meta is crazy to me.
Crypto was built on the idea of decentralization.
BTC was born out of Occupy Wall St.
Does anyone even remember what that was? And why it happened?
But sure, bags pumping is kinda nice.