For longtime readers of this publication, you might remember this little section I used to add at the end of every early newsletter:
Somewhere along the way, I ended up removing that section. I can’t remember exactly why but I suspect it had something to do with the fact that for a brief moment during NFT mania, whenever I spoke about a project, I had the power to move markets. Ah, to be young and powerful again.
Back then, the market was small and my voice was carried a lot of weight. These days, the things I speak about are much larger, and my voice is much smaller (at least, relative to the market and the other voices out there).
When I talk about things now, it doesn’t tend to meaningfully impact the direction of things, and I honestly feel a whole lot better about it.
So when a premium subscriber suggested I bring back this section + start sharing more of the things I have my eye on, I thought it was a great idea.
The whole idea behind this newsletter is that I research things so that you don’t have to. I am meant to save you time and hopefully help you discover ideas, projects, coins, etc, that you might otherwise have missed. So that’s what we’re doing this week.
I might make this a regular series (perhaps once a month), I might start to tack a short version of these on to the end of every Letter like I used to do, or I might do something else entirely. We’ll see how this one goes.
For now, this is a standalone post, where I am gonna share an assortment of things that sound interesting to me and that might be areas worth looking into if you’re trying to make money.
Over the last few days there has been a tonne of attention (on my timeline at least) about x402, and with good reason. IT’S A BIG FREAKING DEAL.
The more I look into it, the more bullish I get. So what is x402?