This post was originally published on my personal memex and reproduced on Subtack.

When I was first involved with then-emergent DeFi scene in the summer of 2020 aka DeFi Summer, I was one of those kids in a Japanese grammar class who didn't know it was even better to learn Kana first.

NVIDIA vs Total Crypto Market Cap

HAI is a framework for stablecoin systems that comes with a store of value feature. It is a fork of RAI onto the Optimism rollup.

It’s been more than a year since I wrote the last This Week in Writing and NFTs post. It was a series where I mainly delved into the latest trends in nonfungibles ecosystems in terms with the practice of writing—as in either .pdfs pinned to IPFS and hashed to an ERC721, or metadata, or the art of permanent storage, let alone the smart contractual artistic enterprises that utilized the infrastructure available back then.

Gökhan Turhan's favorite albums in 2023.

People are making fun of him that he is using the Nick Land reference in an uninformed manner, and there is no way he could have read, for instance, Nick's ouevre, not excluding the Virulent Nihilism, which is a cringey point of view for myself.

This piece of pure noise-oriented audio work is indeed the strata of different layers of spoken word and sound bites that I did create in the Summer of 2022—late August to be precise in an AirBnB near Galata Tower in Istanbul.