William Peaster

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LLMs Meet Loot: How Daydreams Is Rewriting Onchain Play

5 days ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in To me, one of the most interesting generative onchain agent frameworks is Daydreams. I've been tracking Daydreams since the start of 2025 through its deepening integration into Eternum, a fully onchain strategy game I recently covered that will have Daydreams agents roaming its map by this point next week.
Scaling Ethereum's DeFi App Scene with Singletons

5 days ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in One of my favorite indie developers in the Ethereum ecosystem is Ross, a.k.a. z0r0zzz. He's got a long track record of pushing Ethereum forward from the ground up. His early work on SushiSwap’s BentoBox was a boon for DeFi, and his more recent efforts with onchain agents (NANI) and onchain legal-tech (KALI) are one-of-a-kind in quality. His newest vision is even more ambitious, involving scaling Ethereum not at the network level, but at the app level.
EIP-7702: A Game Changer for Ethereum's Onchain Culture Scene

1 week ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in The Ethereum community’s push for better UX via account abstraction just took its biggest leap forward yet. That’s because EIP-7702, a highly anticipated proposal designed to unlock smart account powers for every wallet, just went live today with the Pectra upgrade. This mechanism is poised to be a major boost for Ethereum’s onchain culture scene in the years ahead, so let’s break down the basics and highlight what to watch going forward. What is EIP-7702?
Focus Tree’s Digital Gardens Blossom On Starknet

1 week ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in Starknet’s prowess has largely coalesced around two poles so far: capital‑efficient DeFi and fully onchain games. Yet the Starknet tech stack, including the Cairo VM, STARK proofs, and various community tools, make for quite a general‑purpose canvas. Imagination is the main limitation here. In other words, you can do much more on Starknet than strictly financial or gaming use cases.
Eternum Season 1: Starknet's Biggest MMO Expands Its Battlefield

2 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in Starknet has a gem in Eternum, which is built atop the Dojo engine and the Cartridge gaming stack. It's one of my favorite titles in onchain games because it plays like one of my favorite mainstream franchises, Sid Meier’s Civilization. Yet unlike Civ, Eternum runs on fully open infrastructure. Its economy is real, its non-player characters are AI-powered, and its emergent gameplay is immutable.
Getting Started with Initia: A New L1 for Appchains

2 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in I'm a big fan of onchain games, which is how I found Kamigotchi. It's a fully onchain MMORPG, and I think it's one of the most promising and charming titles in crypto's gaming scene today. In following Kamigotchi, I learned the project was launching its own virtual world appchain, Yominet, on Initia. Admittedly, that was the first time I'd ever heard of Initia.
4 New Onchain Apps Catching My Eye

2 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in Even though crypto markets have been a rollercoaster this year, one thing has remained constant, and that's the steady flow of new onchain apps. Some of these fresh arrivals are playful, some ambitious, but all are experimenting with what's possible when anyone can build in the open. That said, here are a handful of projects I’ve personally been tracking lately that feel worth a closer look.
Sui's Big Pokémon Rumor

2 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in Pokémon HOME—the cloud hub that lets players store, move, and trade their Pokémon across games—just dropped an interesting surprise. That's because Pokémon HOME’s newest mobile update added “medals," i.e. collectible digital souvenirs you earn by visiting real-world spots or participating in special events.
To Coin or Not to Coin: The Zora Question

3 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in Zora is the big topic this week, with the $ZORA airdrop now live and debate swirling on social media around the project’s new content coins paradigm. If you’re still catching up: content coins are are fungible tokens tied to individual pieces of media—e.g. a photo, a video, etc.
Catching Up with DeFi Saver

3 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in There's a Maker $DAI borrow position I've been maintaining for years. With markets how they've been lately, I recently needed to trim that debt down some to stay ahead of liquidation. I had used a smaller protocol to manage the position previously, but when I returned there, its app was completely changed. The project wasn't unusable, of course, but I wanted a more intuitive experience.