Today leading Web3 metaverse companies, including Animoca Brands, Decentraland, The Sandbox, Upland, Dapper Labs and Alien Worlds, announced the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 (“OMA3” for short). We are tremendously excited to guide this effort and applaud the vision of these companies. When we work with companies we usually need to convince them that a Standards DAO (decentralized autonomous organization)…
Almost four years ago we joined SunSpec Alliance to help secure the distributed energy grid. Since then wildfires, power outages, and oil sanctions have only increased the need for distributed energy. We started the SunSpec Blockchain Work Group in 2019 and the official specification was published in early 2021. Late last year we quietly created the Lumian Foundation as a…
Web3 has the potential to restructure our lives for the better, but it also requires us to take more responsibility for how we protect our Web3 assets. There are two reasons for this: Web3 transactions are irreversible: For the most part, you can’t get your money back. Web3 accounts are anonymous (pseudonymous to be exact): It’s hard for law enforcement…