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Binance Lawyers Allege SEC Chair Gensler Offered To Serve As Advisor To Crypto Company In 2019
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The Structure of Competition between Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Junyi Hu, Anthony Lee Zhang
If You're Somewhat New To The Space And Wondering Why Self-Professed Bitcoiners Today Cheered On SEC Attacks
Nic Carter
Bitcoiners Who Want Crypto, Binance, Coinbase, and Everything Else To Fail Are Also Hastening The End Of Bitcoin
Jon Wu
SEC Says Binance And US Affiliate Redirected Billions In Customer Assets To CZ's Funds
The Block
Understanding Rollup Value Accrual
Sanjay Shah
Soros Fund Management CEO Says Crypto Is Ripe For TradFi Takeover
The Block
PoolTogether Legal Case Likely To Be Dismissed
Leighton Cusack
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List Of Cool Bitcoin Subcultures
Paul J. Dylan-Ennis
RabbitHole's Quest Terminal Is Live: Interface For Building Eligibility Criteria, Deploying Quests To The Quest Protocol, & Monitoring Results
Brian Flynn
Do Web3 Quests Work?
Antonio Garcia Martinez
CHAOS: One Year In The Life Of A Massive Multiplayer Band
Songcamp
Brian Armstrong Says Coinbase Is Not Shuttering Staking Service In The Face Of SEC Lawsuits
CoinDesk
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Interface
OnCyber Adds Web2 Login Options
OnCyber
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Corbin Page
ENS To Integrate Web Browsers With .Box Domain Name
Nick Johnson
Why There Was A Disruption In Arbitrum's Sequencer Today
Arbitrum
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By Chris Carella - May 3, 2023
The Opportunities and Limitations of Nounish DAOs
Nounish DAOs represent a groundbreaking development in the DAO landscape, melding technical advancements with a distinct cultural foundation.
By Jihad Esmail - May 3, 2023
Dropping as a DAO
One way DAOs leverage their collective power is through Droposals – originally coined by Gami – which are proposals made by the DAO to create and release products or collectibles, often in collaboration with artists, that generate revenue for the DAO while fostering user engagement.
By Forefront - Feb 2, 2023
Tokenized Communities Year in Review
This report, written and curated by the Forefront team, covers the journey the tokenized community ecosystem has taken from 2020 to today, highlighting the remarkable progress we made last year.
By Mashal Waqar - Sep 1, 2022
Rethinking Community Design to Build Better Communities
Forefront Journal publishes essays from the frontier of web3 social and tokenized communities. This is a guest essay from Mashal Waqar.
By Maxwell Kanter and Scott Moore - Aug 23, 2022
An Exploration of Internet-Native Organizations
Forefront Journal publishes essays from the frontier of web3 social and tokenized communities. This is a guest essay from Scott Moore and Maxwell Kanter of Gitcoin.
By Forefront and Esha Bora - Jul 19, 2022
The Decentralized Science Movement
Exploring the potential of blockchain technology and tokenized communities in taking academic research to the next level.
By Jihad Esmail - Jun 30, 2022
What Makes Tokenized Communities Valuable?
The goal of this essay is to further explore what makes tokenized communities valuable.
By Forefront and Jihad Esmail - Mar 21, 2022
Tokenized Communities
Web3 has introduced a new type of organization: Tokenized Communities.
By Chu and Fancy and Forefront - Dec 1, 2021
Permissionless Brands
Chu and Fancy are part of the core team at Protein Community, these thoughts are their own and don't represent the views of the full Community. We'd like to say thank you to Other Internet and their article on Headless Brands, which was integral to our thinking.
By Nir Kabessa - Nov 16, 2021
The Super DApp Thesis
The West’s WeChat (an all-in-one app that can do everything) will be a “Super DApp” consisting of one/few web3 apps/platforms integrating with a growing set of permissionless protocols, standards, and cloud solutions. Some worthy contenders have already emerged.
By Joey DeBruin - Oct 7, 2021
Why the New York Times Should be Tokenized
Special thanks to Sari Azout, and to Jihad and Carlos from Forefront for help getting this piece put together. Follow along with me on Twitter as we set these experiments live over the coming months.
By Austin Robey - Jul 5, 2021
Ways to improve the ownership economy
This is a guest post featuring Austin Robey, co-founder at Ampled in an FF exclusive.
By Joey DeBruin and Nir Kabessa - Jun 17, 2021
Tokenized Access and Subscriptions
The focus of this piece is to highlight the important business opportunities that social tokens and NFTs enable for services, software, and creators without 3rd party investment. We cover what tokenized access and subscriptions look like, ongoing experiments with the tech, as well as the numerous advantages over traditional SaaS.
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We dig through the noise and surface insights from across the web3 social and tokenized community landscape. If you’re a web3 explorer, the Forefront Podcast is for you.
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