Last week we announced the launch of W3 Studio, a non‐profit entity that will support diverse founders in Atlanta. I want to share why this new initiative is so important to me. I was raised to see the privileges I was afforded as something that ought to be shared with…

Here are the top web3 stories from this week. Market Updates Some Good and Some Bad News in Crypto 🤷 On the positive side, Amazon announced a partnership with the Avalanche blockchain. Also, Congress announced a new digital asset committee to explore regulations. On the negative side, challenges at Digital…

Here are the top web3 stories from this week. Launch of W3 Studio My New Venture Studio is Open for Biz 🥳 I’m excited to share that this week we announced the launch of W3 Studio, a venture studio to help diverse founders in Atlanta build startups in web3. W3…

2022 was a wild ride in Crypto and web3. While the sector hit the mainstream and showed dozens of new uses cases, prices crashed in concert with the tech stock market selloff and the fourth quarter was dominated by the massive fraud at FTX. I recently reviewed my predictions for…

Here are the top web3 stories from this week. Year in Review and Predictions Market Leaders Share Thoughts 🔮 Ryan Selkis leads Messari, a Crypto data and analysis firm. He publishes an annual prediction report that is 100+ pages covering every major sector of the market. TCG Crypto (Chernin Group)…

Here are the top web3 stories from this week. FTX Continues SBF Extradited, Others are Cooperating 👮 FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sent back to the U.S. to face trial after agreeing to extradition. The government announced charges against Caroline Ellison and Sam Yang, who are both cooperating in…

Here are the top web3 stories from this week. FTX Impact FTX Founder Arrested 👮 FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas and awaits extradition to the U.S. He faces charges from the DoJ, the CFTC, and the SEC. …

In December last year, I posted a year in review article with several predictions for 2022. Overall, I didn’t see the Crypto and NFT prices crashing, so this is not going to grade out high. Let’s break it down and see how I did. I didn’t explicitly make a price…

Here are the top web3 stories from this week. Consumer Offering Starbucks NFT Program Live ☕ Starbucks has gone live in Beta with their NFT reward program. Their Odyssey program combines loyalty rewards with NFT collectibles and is built on the Polygon layer 2 protocol. …