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A reading list about being/staying human
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A reading list for the deeply curious
Part one of our summer reading list: 13 books on technology, markets, AI, code, and the systems behind change.
Prediction markets just posted their third straight record-setting week
Prediction markets just had their biggest week ever.
The new comms playbook: show, don’t promise
The next era belongs to builders with receipts
The money flow is the moat
The best businesses sit inside the flow of value. Stablecoins and programmable networks are making that pattern available to every startup.
The race to own AI
One of the more interesting side effects of the AI boom is the scramble to own pieces of it.
3 product-market fit patterns working right now
Product-market-fit (PMF) is one of the single greatest determinants of whether a company lives or dies.
What prediction markets actually know
The questions they answer that other markets can't — and what they still need to get right
The tokenization boom in 7 charts
How tokenization is changing what assets are, how they move, and who can build on top of them
Finally, finance's digital transformation
The case for blockchains as finance’s long-delayed cloud moment.
The law was built for companies. The future may be built by networks
Why the CLARITY Act is really about whether decentralized networks can exist as first-class institutions in the United States.
Why 'stablecoins' won't age well
The category has moved on. The name hasn't.
We raised a $2.2B crypto fund
Why now
Can AI agents actually pull off DeFi exploits?
We asked whether off-the-shelf AI could turn DeFi vulnerabilities into real exploits. The answer was… complicated.
How stablecoins found their story in 9 charts
A new picture is emerging of what stablecoins are for
Agents are starting to operate real systems — who’s actually in control?
As agents start to govern real systems, who controls the models behind them? Plus, four more ways blockchains can help provide the missing infrastructure for AI
A guide to perpetual futures: How they work and why they're growing so quickly
The rise of perps, the shift onchain, and the emerging builder opportunity
Entering the era of the headless merchant
Agent-native payment rails are live — and so are the merchants.
The missing legal layer for DAOs
A better path for decentralized governance is gaining traction across states and major crypto communities
Exchanges won’t build the next layer of finance. Founders will.
Core financial plumbing is starting to be rebuilt onchain
Blockchains are fast enough for finance. Now what?
We need to solve much more than just throughput to truly compete with existing financial infrastructure.
'Open Agentic Commerce' and the end of ads
Agents are making ads obsolete. Open protocols and a 28-year-old idea are giving the internet a native business model.
Your product won’t sell itself
A playbook for hiring the roles, building the process, and scaling enterprise sales
What founders get wrong about selling to enterprises
Why enterprise deals aren't won on "better" tech alone — and what founders can do.