I’ve been trying to set aside time to do a deep-dive on @Goldies ScaryGary sneaker for a minute now. While doing so, I attended an event at Chicago’s Premier Digital Gallery @Im_Not_Art. Immediately spotted the homie Matt (owner of ImNotArt) to get the details. He explained to me how this was the first event after…

Scrolling through CryptoTwitter while presumably in the anger/depression phase of a market cycle has been interesting. FTX-CoNtAgIoN, regulation worries, conference attendance roll calls, and FUDing of more apparently everything. However on this day, it was about discovering another one of Web3’s great new talents. After my personal discovery of Willea Zwey’s art and her subsequent…

Pulled up to Chicago’s Web3 staple @im_not_art to check out Willea Zwey’s exhibition “Through The Spectrum” as a live mint. According to statistics I arbitrarily made up for this article, 99.99% of NFTs are minted (think purchased) from collectors’ laptops in their home. They visit an artists’ website or nft-marketplace, connect their browser-wallet to the…

This is a tutorial I put together on how to bridge from Ethereum (Layer1) to other networks that are built on-top of Eth (Layer 2). These Layer 2 “scaling solutions” were built to offer faster and cheaper web3 experiences while still benefiting form the security and decentralization of ETH.

Today I have the pleasure of sharing a conversation I had with one of my favorite creatives.  “Four” from Lagos, Nigeria. A talented artist that works across a number of mediums. I became a fan myself when I found his “scarf” collection. I didn’t understand the collection at first, but after the third piece I…

How this started and where it’s going. December 2021 I flew out to Dubai for an NFT project launch. The uTiLiTy of that project was networking with other entrepreneurs but ended up making a lot of friends inside and outside of crypto. A lot of projects up to this point were creating their brands around…