NOTE: This dispatch originally ran on my Ministry of Alpha page at Substack in mid-August. This has been slightly edited for content and timing. This is a story about chicken. Like, literally chicken. As in fingers. …

NOTE: This dispatch originally ran on my Ministry of Alpha page at Substack in early June. This has been slightly edited for content and timing. I tweeted a thread several weeks ago offering some thoughts on all the other threads I’ve been seeing that are aimed at helping NFT buyers/owners/investors…

What’s in your wallet? If you’re from the U.S., you will reflexively know that marketing tagline. If you’re not, that’s the catchphrase financial-services giant CapitalOne uses in TV and print ads to market its credit cards. I’m stealing it for the moment because it fits the theme of this dispatch: …

NOTE: This is my last post on Medium. I have moved to Substack to better manage a growing list of newsletter subscribers. If you wish to continue following me, you can find me there at Jeffo’s Ministry of Alpha. The universe determined on Jan. 31 that I am, in fact…

Let me just get this shock-value comment out of the way now instead of saving it for the TL;DR later in this dispatch: I truly believe that Portals is going to set price records that are on par with — actually, likely to exceed — the values established by The…

Tomorrow (Sunday, 30 Jan), the long-awaited staking process begins for SOL Flowers, the 3D flower project that spun out of OG Flowers. The OGs, as well as the truly tiny collection of 50 OG Underworld Flowers are eligible for staking as well. That process will ultimately lead to a morphing/burning…

I love me a good metaverse. Particularly one tied to a really cool, futuristic city that looks like a real city I’d love to live long enough to actually reside in one day. Nothing against cartoony, gamified metaverses, but I just don’t find them visually engaging. …

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Shill City Capital, of course. What? You thought I was gonna say, “Sponge Bob Square Pants?” Last week, I participated in the minting of Sea Shanties, an underwater-themed DeFi ecosystem that kinda resembles a degen Bikini Bottom, where Sponge Bob, Patrick, Squidward…