What’s Possible: 29th April, 2022

We hope you enjoy this week's hand-picked selection of important and interesting stories from the frontiers of tech.

Why Digital Identity Is Even More Important in the Metaverse

Civic CEO @hartcb breaks down the core concepts that will define our digital identities on Web3. (read)

TechBio: a new stack for a new biology

How can we produce and supply enough safe and nutritious food in a sustainable way to a population which is expected to exceed 9 billion? How can we keep global warming under 1.5C, or even 2C, whilst petrochemistry provides most of the energy and materials this rising population requires? How can we outwit diseases that have so far outwitted us and continue to meaningfully extend human healthspan and lifespan? Most of the key questions facing us, most of them requiring urgent answers, hinge on our understanding and use of biology. (read)

Animoca Brands’ Yat Siu: The big picture view of blockchain games

Yat Siu, chairman of Animoca Brands, believes that blockchain and decentralisation will revolutionise gaming. But the mainstream gamers who are supposed to benefit from it haven’t been very receptive so far. (read) (watch👇)

A mental framework for understanding stablecoins

Are you newer to crypto and want to learn more about stablecoin design, but confused by the complexity and variety of different models out there? Here is an initial mental framework to help better understand the design canvas: (1) How is it issued? (2) What backs it? (thread)

Interesting adjacencies

• Balaji is decentralising education with Synthesis (link)
• SOSV released their 2022 Climate Tech 100 (link)
• RTFKT, together with Nike CryptoKicks, introduce the future of Sneakers, powered by Skin Vial tech (tweet)
• Making science more open is good for research—but bad for security (read)
• Fixing the nitrogen problem (read)

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