What's the future of money going to look like?
This issue of the newsletter looks at the idea of the future of money from a few different angles and covers a range of options from central bank digital currencies to Universal Money Addresses.
What is a Universal Money Address?
A Universal Money Address Standard leverages the Lightning Network to enable payment handles that are easy to read, share, and remember.
Four competing digital money frameworks
Here’s a breakdown of the strengths and weaknesses of tokenized deposits, fiat-backed stablecoins, algorithmically-backed stablecoins, and CBDCs. Sometimes, some of these systems are conceptually used interchangeably, but they are all different. And how they are distinctive is important.
Building on public blockchains: A look at developer activity
This issue of the newsletter is a recap of a dive into crypto developer activity. We looked at what builders are building in two ways: by unpacking the 2023 Developer Report by Electrical Capital and then by looking at how developer activity fits into a basic crypto research stack.
Crypto developer activity as a value metric
Developer activity provides intel about the overall health and innovation happening within a crypto network ecosystem.
Unpacking the Electric Capital Developer Report 2023
This a look at some of the highlights from the Electric Capital Developer Report 2023.