For any project with a white paper or planned token, one of the most frequent questions in a Discord server is the famous “wen token?” For those living under a rock and have not heard this exact question, I love this explanation of the common refrain from mhouse: Implied in…

We recently secured a termsheet from a new ReFi fund that is currently in stealth but not for long. The founding partner of that fund shared with me early in our discussions how he seeks out Camels not Unicorns. I had not heard that framing before and asked him to…

In my column in CoinDesk last month, I made a projection that 2023 would be the year ReFi goes mainstream. Since then I also published the ReFi Climate Stack as a way to graphically reflect the sizable innovation happening at the intersection of crypto and climate. As I dive…

Bringing IRL Utility to WheelCoin to Embrace ReFi Agenda Today, January 18th, we are announcing the live functionality for WheelCoin app users to burn WHL, the reward token, in exchange for discounts for using green mobility services from our growing partner network. The Move2Earn (M2E) space took off in 2022…

In a December column in CoinDesk I argued that 2023 will be the year ReFi (Regenerative Finance) goes mainstream in the crypto community. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of encouragement this post received from many corners of the crypto community, especially the ReFi space. Yet ReFi as a…

As I was riding my mountain bike on Saturday the 24th, listening to one of my favorite podcasts (Empire), I was of course concerned by the ominous theme of the episode “Why 2023 Will be a Blood Bath for Crypto Startups.” However, I was at least partially uplifted by Santiago…

As we head to the end of the year, we are excited to announce a new feature in WheelCoin is going live in the next few days, first in Android and soon after in the iOS. WheelCoin is the first Move2Earn app that rewards and gamifies users to move green…

We built and launched WheelCoin as a Move2Earn (M2E) app to accelerate the adoption of green mobility in cities around the globe. WheelCoin (available in the Android and iOS stores) rewards users for choosing trains, buses, scooters/bikes and walking over normal cars for their journeys. Since launching the first beta…

We launched the public beta of WheelCoin in early October as the first Move2Earn app focused on gamifying green mobility adoption. Since then we have had thousands of new users providing amazing feedback as we work to improve the UX/UI as well as bring real utility for users and for…