Decent Partners

@DecentPartners

A creative conspiracy developing network publics.

Joined on Apr 19, 2021

  • image The cult british music and youth culture brand FourToTheFloor (FTTF) is moving on-chain as an experimental live experience, stream and magazine drop. The first event is pencilled for the first week of April and will be at The Portico in South East London. The experience will feature original video, visual FX, installations, live performance and merch creation created in partnership with a leading music group. The two day rehearsal for the event will be part of the experience as we capture the behind the scenes of this media experiment and create assets for the live event and assets for a later 'magazine drop' of unique digital assets.
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  • create chaOS Introducing chaOS By harnessing the dynamic capabilities of the Kusama network, chaOS transforms traditional blockchain concepts into an operating system framework where the core relay chain functions as the kernel, and specialised parachains act as dedicated applications. This design not only leverages robust security and consensus mechanisms but also enables a wide array of services—exemplified by projects such as Asset Hub, Krievo, and Kabocha to operate in isolated, optimised environments. Visualisation of the Stack +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Decentralised Organisations |
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  • less trust more truth Less Trust, More Truth? Questioning Metrics in Web3 Abstract Blockchain technology aspires to replace trust-based systems with truth-based mechanisms, yet current incentives in Web3 often reward gamed metrics over genuine adoption. The Spammening - an initiative transparently funded by the Kusama and Polkadot treasuries aims to demonstrate the transaction throughput of the network. However the approach has inadvertently served as a perfect case study in how current incentives encourage the creation of artificial activity to inflate metrics and drive speculative behaviour revealing the systemic flaws in how adoption is currently measured and rewarded by the market.
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  • Kabocha vs Plaza: Alternative visions for the future of polkadot TL;DR As the Kusama and Polkadot ecosystems have evolved, contributors and token holders have sought to develop new strategic directions to meaningful adoption of the underlying technology. This has led to Polkadot and Kusama treasuries spending c. $150m and $30m respectively. Despite the combined effort and hard work of many talented contributors this spending has led to neglible on-chain impact, little real economic activity, a steadily falling marketcap and the creation of no productive businesses - other than those subsidised by inflation based funding and therefore detached from economic reality. Kabocha and Plaza are two distinct approaches to the challenges currently facing the broader Polkadot ecosystem.
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  • Swan The Financialisation of Everything: Balancing Fiat Governance, Cryptographic Scarcity, and dreams of a New Creative Economy Introduction We are in the midst of a financial revolution. Blockchain, AI, and decentralised finance (DeFi) are transforming how value is created and exchanged, promising efficiency and inclusion while also introducing risks, particularly black swan events—rare and unpredictable disruptions. As economic activity shifts into digital realms, these risks intensify due to the complexity and speed of the financialised digital economy. This paper explores how inflation, rising interest rates, Bitcoin’s fixed supply, and the attention economy are reshaping the global financial system, accelerating inequality, and sparking social division.
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  • A decent story. Once upon a time, the world thought value was best trapped in shiny rocks dug from the ground or in digital doodads called Bitcoins, all locked up in a big cosmic piggy bank with 21 million invisible coins clinking around inside. These coins were so precious because, well, they said so. A number, you see, is a holy thing. But let me tell you a story about a bunch of peculiar people who believed in something altogether different. They thought,
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  • Wish for change: Establish the Polkadot Impact Prize Request for Proposal (RFP) (DRAFT 0.1) Note the below is an initial draft - if you sign in to HackMD you can comment and suggest changes. After an inital review this will be pushed onchain via a WFC to guage initial sentiment. Thankyou to the Polkadot Marketing Bounty 2.0 for inspiration. Title: The $xM Polkadot Impact Prize RFP Issue Date: [here]RFP Number: [here]Proposal Due Date: [here]
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