Essays on the Promise and Betrayal of Web3
You Say You Want a Revolution
Seventy-five essays spanning a decade — from the DAO hack of 2016 to the empty island of 2025 — chronicling one engineer's stubborn fight to keep blockchain's original promise alive.
Coming Soon
"I have spent ten years building tools for a future that may never arrive. These essays are the receipts."— from the Introduction
What's Inside
The DAO Awakening
The founding trauma — when $60 million disappeared and three experts couldn't agree on basic facts.
Building QuickBlocks
The early tools, the first attempts to make blockchain data accessible to ordinary people.
The Decentralization Manifesto
Why the data access problem matters more than anyone wants to admit.
The Unchained Index
The core innovation — a permissionless, open-source index published to IPFS.
The Long Grind
Years of grant applications, 18-decimal-place accuracy, and the slow erosion of the ecosystem's principles.
The Specification
Technical deep-dives for those who want to understand, rebuild, or improve what was built.
The Prisoner's Dilemma
When everyone else defects to centralization, what's the rational move?
The Island
The view from the end. The code works. The tools exist. The island is lovely. The trouble is, he's there alone.