Marlene Ronstedt

This odd combination of activists and investors shows an interesting trend: The makers of Web 3.0 are sort of re-enacting the dream activists had already a long time ago. The difference is that the blockchain followers come from a completely different place. They are rather libertarians funded by venture capital who don’t mind enriching themselves in the process. Whereas activists traditionally built their anti-surveillance tools with little (governmental) funding… Hackernoon

Dank Schwarmintelligenz haben die Menschen die Erde erkundet. Als nächstes haben sie begonnen Technologien zu entwickeln die eigenständig im Schwarm handeln können. Dieser Fortschritt wird es irgendwann möglich machen auch den Weltraum zu erobern … Qiio Magazin

Traditionally ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land, real estate or intellectual property. Through tokenization ownership can be shared by a group. Similar to stock, token holders can hold a share in a company or co-own a plot of land. However, people seem to get uneasy when being confronted with the idea of partially owning a piece of art. Who wants to have the Mona Lisa’s nose if you have to share the rest? … Institute of Network Cultures

As part of the art collective C-2 I participated in holding a performative art auction during which we auctioned a fractionalized oil painting via ERC-721 tokens. Participants could bid for the right to own parts of a painting and receive an NFT minted on the Ethereum Ropsten Testnet. Unsurprisingly, the audience seemed to have difficulties with warming up to the philosophical concept of co-ownership via NFTs.

This performance was part of Money Lab #6 an innitative by the Institute of Network Cultures.

A conversation with Consensys’ founder and CEO Joe Lubin and the Consensys CSO Sam Cassatt in Hackernoon.

How are DLT regulations around the world developing? With countries passing new bills or speaking out bans on a weekly basis it is hard to keep track. Here is an overview of the most important developments … Blockchain Policy Initative

In this first episode of the Token Up Podcast Alex and Marlene from Neufund explain what security tokens are.

Glaubt man den Krypto-Visionären, dann stehen wir kurz davor, dass alles auf der Blockchain abgebildet wird. Bis zum Atom. Dann sind nicht nur Bitcoins, Ether und andere Kryptowährungen in dezentralen Datenbanken gespeichert, sondern auch unsere Identität, unser Besitz und sogar Kunst. Jedoch tut sich ziemlich schnell die Frage nach dem „Wieso?“ auf. Um das zu beantworten, bin ich für WIRED ins Crypto Valley in die Schweiz gereist… WIRED Germany