Issue 11: Play games, get fit, all onchain
This issue of the newsletter brings together the first two posts in a series about new onchain apps and services.
Daniel McGlynn provides writing, content strategy, and brand positioning guidance for some of the internet's leading brands. Creating here to document what he learns along the way.
This issue of the newsletter brings together the first two posts in a series about new onchain apps and services.
Receipts makes it possible to bring personal fitness data onchain. Via a data attestation mechanism, Receipts makes it possible to mint workout data and participate in fitness challenges.
This year you can participate in March Madness onchain via a new app called Bracket.Game. The app allows you to support your favorite team and form collectives with other fans. It's also a great example of what the future of onchain could look like.
In this issue of the newsletter is all about the building energy driving more activities onchain. We talk about how the interest in Base and the tokenization of real-world assets are part of the same movement.
For years blockchain advocates have been championing the idea of tokenizing real-word assets (RWA). Bringing RWA onchain will make markets faster and more efficient. It also opens up other complexities. This week bringing RWAs onchain took a big first step.
Base from Coinbase is a scaling tech stack designed specifically to make it easier to get more people onchain. Base is helping drive down onchain transaction costs and makes it easy to spin up new blockchain-based apps and services.