Inside the rivalry, the Ethereum Merge and the man whose legacy depends on it. — If cryptocurrency has a face, it currently belongs to Vitalik Buterin: the 28-year-old Russian-born, rainbow-clad co-creator of Ethereum, a blockchain platform that operates as a world computer for decentralized applications, and is second only in market cap to Bitcoin. Having disappeared in 2010, we’ll never catch a glimpse of Satoshi…

A new type of NFT has just been conceptualized and found some utility on Web3. The idea comes from Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin, and they seem to be catching on. We3 takes a peek. In World of Warcraft (WoW) parlance, a “soulbound” weapon, shield is something that is inextricably linked to…

Editor’s Note: The FTX story is yibba-mama-bat-sh*t-crazy, and it’s still unfolding, with new shocking revelations coming out every day. …

Can NFTs be more than pixelated cyber punks? — we3 met the founders of Arttaca.io, a new curated NFT platform that puts the art back in NFT art. Walking down the Charoen Krung Road, Bangkok, you would find an NFT exhibition “hidden” in a solemn space on the 5th floor of an old building. …

Biometrics, techno-imaginaries, and transformations in Rohingya lives. — We3 guest writer, Elliott Prasse-Freeman is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, where he researches social movements and new technologies in Southeast Asia, whilst generally trying to not get deported. …

“There is always something new out of Africa” — Pliny the Elder (23–79AD) The world’s youngest continent nimbly bypassed that awkward teenage hard-wired telecom-cable stage and made a beeline straight for grown-up 3G and low earth-orbiting satellites. …

Welcome to getting dressed in the metaverse, where your daily ritual of self-expression will be taken to logical — and sometimes wildly illogical — extremes. Web2 has already irreversibly altered the way we shop for clothes, and social media might have influenced the way we wear our clothes, but the…

NFTs are an exciting new asset class set to be a main player in the future of investment. But, as with everything, there are the good, the bad and the ugly. We3 takes a look at a case study of how-not-to-NFT with the story of the “philanthropist entrepreneur” burning his “$10M Kahlo Painting”. Sometimes, one has to hit rock bottom to see what it’s really like down there. This story from the NFT-verse has popped up on our radar, and it features a guy in tight white pants and a questionable jacket. It’s a story that involves outrageous claims, possible felonies, and confused…

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. We3 looks at how Ukraine’s resistance pit DeFi and CeFi against one another. Roughly 10 months into Russia’s invasion, Ukraine has found new ways to defend their freedom from violent tyranny on the 21st-century battlefield. The Ukrainian government has been treating this war…