Crypto may be the only free market solution to the market failure that is the FANG data monopolies economist.com/special-report…

Will small protocols loosely joined be the more elegant, adaptive, and more easily governed architecture of a decentralized future?

Cloudflare has not only been quietly powering much of the Internet, it has been quietly building one of the strongest and deepest teams out there businessinsider.com/cloudflare-rai…

I just backed Cider for Sea Turtles on Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/proud…

Personalization is something you do for someone, targeting is something you do to someone - why doesn't the industry that spins for a living come up with a better word

Is there a seismic shift on the horizon in TV advertising - Simulmedia thinks there is usv.com/blog/supportin…

Michael Sena of 3Box asks all the right questions of Facebook on Libra and Calibra medium.com/3box/3-questio…

This is a really cool gig for a CTO from the open source world who wants to work with a leading crypto company cto.openzeppelin.org

Duck Duck Go is an unusual company, run by an unusual entrepreneur. It may be just what we need in these unusual times thetwentyminutevc.com/gabrielweinber…

We've put up DuckDuckGo billboards across the US, UK, SE, NL, BE, DK (with DE, FR & ES to come soon). If you spot a 🦆 in your community, we'd love to see it! Here's a map of all of our live locations (subject to change): duckduckgo.com/billboards

📣 Announcing: HackFS 💻 a 30 day virtual hackathon aimed at building the foundation of the decentralized web. Devs will build dapps, games, dev tools, DeFi tools, and other hacks that use decentralized storage. Hosted by ETHGlobal and @ProtocolLabs. hackfs.com

I used to think that Web3 infrastructure would be decentralized compute, storage, and communication. Physical infrastructure will be needed but if we don't get identity and incentives right - it wont matter. Danny from 3Box lays out the identity challenge here...

Very excited to see the beginning of the end of GAFA's control of our data and our identities blog.ceramic.network/tag/news/

DeFi aspires to make financial services available to everyone. Zerion aspires to make it easy for us mere mortals docs.google.com/document/d/1oC…

Albert takes on climate, crypto, education, and the secret to a happy marriage in this podcast. thetwentyminutevc.com/albert-wenger/

Memory needs a rebel alliance Last week we wrote about the risks of centralizing our digital memory. Today's follow-up blog explores the ecosystem of startups building a different future where you control your own data and memory USV ex/ante Zoe Weinberg + matt hawes

Could crypto-tokens be the future of open protocols? We think so. So does Juan Benet and Protocol Labs

.Cloudflare not kidding around when it comes to standing up to patent troll Blackbird Tech: blog.cloudflare.com/patent-troll-b…

Important information for imminent the Filecoin sale ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWdXyhqH…

Net Neutrality is not just about the freedom to innovate, it is ultimate about the freedom to choose your own sources of information. Startups understand this intuitively engine.is/news/category/…