Polygon Ventures: Backing the Bold

Founders Hub | Transform Finance

The founder playbook for building a company that lasts and stays true to why you started it. Research, case studies, and practical tools for incorporation, fundraising terms, board structure, ownership, and culture.

7 Startup Agreements That Save Companies (and Friendships) | Signus

Founder blowups and cap-table surprises are mostly preventable. A focused seven-document set—Founders Agreement, SAFE (Post-Money), Mutual NDA, Independent Contractor Agreement, Advisory Agreement, Consulting Agreement, and PIIA—closes the early gaps that orphan IP, muddle equity, and stall deals. Right-size what you send; use the subset that fits the moment. Clarity beats memory.

Why we started Polywork

Polywork has officially been live for just over three weeks, marking what was an amazing 12 months of hard work and love from our…

The Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business

What you need to know about the next big startup archetype

Crypto, Blockchain and FinTech Industry Insights Blog

Visit Ripple’s Insights blog for the latest articles, news, industry trends, and thought leadership across blockchain, crypto, payments and more.

Transformational Pathways to Sustainability Through Polycrisis

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Politically Connected Crypto Project Pursued Resort With Alleged Scam Syndicate Figures

AB is a little-known blockchain network that recently partnered with the Trump family’s crypto firm. But one of the projects it has promoted — a proposed crypto technology resort in Southeast Asia — involved people sanctioned by the U.S. last year for ties to the Prince Group, an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud...

Cryptoeconomics: Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology | HackerNoon

Page through the articles on <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a> today and you will see healthy discussions over its applications and endless debates over the future price action of someone’s favorite cryptocurrency. Yet rarely among all these topics is any mention of the most fascinating notion at the heart of the movement — blockchain as a novel means<strong> to incentivize desired human behavior</strong>.

Holochain: Reinventing Applications

Holochain is a framework for writing fully distributed peer-to-peer applications. It is not based on blockchain technology. Nor is…

npmx: converging communities

The story of the many people and communities that converged to build npmx together

From Volunteer Gardening to Building Next-Gen Distributed Web Apps: My Journey to Holochain App…

A story about discovering community, a mind-warping internet paradigm and a global network of unconventional software engineers.

Defining “Participatory Ecosystem” — Grow the Pie, N...

A blog on social software, collaboration, trust, security, privacy, and internet tools by Christopher Allen. Defining “Participatory Ecosystem” — Grow t...

Home - DWeb for Creators - Gray Area

DWeb for Creators is an online course that empowers artists, designers, archivists, gallerists, curators, and others with the knowledge and tools necessary for exploring the decentralized web. Participants in this course engage with technologies like blockchain and mesh networks; examine case studies in curation, publishing, data sovereignty, and community building; and apply decolonial approaches to world building as they envision the future of DWeb technologies.

Big Brain Holdings

We are witnessing the early stages of a technological revolution, with blockchain at its core—a shift as impactful as the advent of the internet.

Introducing The Unusual Method

From Unusual Ventures’ inception, our mission has been clear: to redefine seed stage investing and build a firm that would provide founders with a distinct advantage through the hardest leg of a startup journey—from Idea to Product Market fit. Today we’ve taken an important step towards fulfilling our mission. We are proud to officially make available The Unusual Method and our Unusual Field Guide.