William Peaster

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Pokémon Cards Onchain: The Courtyard Surge

1 week ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in One NFT project has been routinely topping the biggest collections, like CryptoPunks and Bored Apes, in trading volume lately. The project? Courtyard. If you're not familiar with it, the platform lets you tokenize physical cards and rip digital packs of tokenized cards like Pokémon, etc. And it's showing considerable strength right now.
5 Tools for Trading Tokens on Base

1 week ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in Base is a hotbed for token trading. If you want to get ahead here, good resources will go a long way. Fortunately, there's a growing stable of trading hub platforms atop Base that simplify the discovery, swapping, and portfolio management processes. If you're looking to dive deeper into the Base scene this year, you'll want to try some of these tools.
Coining Your Content on Zora

1 week ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in One of the superpowers of crypto? Being like what the printing press was to books when it comes to creating niche financial markets for, well, anything. Before the printing press, only the few could make and read texts. Before crypto, only the few could create and manage markets. Now, onchain infra and the apps built upon it make it easier than ever for anyone to financialize their ideas and creations.
Onchain Pet Battler Kamigotchi Nears Mainnet

2 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in Something that should be on your radar in my opinion? Kamigotchi's upcoming mainnet launch. Kamigotchi itself is a fully onchain pet strategy game that the indie game studio Asphodel has been developing over the past couple of years. The project raised a seed round in March 2025 and later that month concluded its second playtest on the testnet of its bespoke chain, Yominet.
Getting Started with Revnets on Juicebox

2 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in Juicebox Protocol recently dropped its biggest upgrade yet in its V4 system. The new release brings Juicebox’s programmable fundraising system to multiple Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains and introduces one of the most interesting onchain financial primitives we’ve seen in a while—revnets. Short for revenue network, revnets are fully autonomous, rule-based treasuries that share tokenized revenues with their users.
20 Farcaster Mini Apps You Should Try

2 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in One of the biggest momentum catalysts for Farcaster this year? Its Mini Apps. The new V2 of Farcaster's framework here is a big advance, allowing projects to easily develop and deploy everything from simple to sophisticated web apps atop the onchain social network. Why does this system matter? Because it makes it easy for projects to build fast and go viral on Farcaster with onchain activations that offer slick UX and notifications for persistent engagement.
The Trade War Arrives

2 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in 1️⃣ Market Reels from Trump TariffsCrypto markets took a sharp hit this week after President Trump unveiled sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs, triggering a wave of risk-off sentiment across global financial markets. The policy imposed a baseline 10% tax on most imports—with some countries, like China, facing levies over 50%—and has fueled growing fears of a global trade war.
Exploring Compliant Onchain Privacy with 0xbow’s Privacy Pools

2 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in Over the past month, I’ve covered two emerging privacy tools on Base:Fluidkey for stealth address unlinkabilityVeil for full deposit–withdrawal untraceabilityBut what if you want privacy on Ethereum mainnet and a solution that provides compliance guarantees? That’s where 0xbow’s Privacy Pools come in. This new Ethereum-based protocol lets you deposit and later privately withdraw ETH or ERC-20 tokens while proving your funds didn’t come from bad actors.
Coinboost: An Onchain Growth Engine for Zora Coins

3 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in The other day, I wanted to try Zora's new Coins system for myself, so I released Mintaphor there. I was just testing out the flow, so I didn't announce the drop anywhere. Yet it still reached 10 buyers and a ~$2,000 market cap. Not bad for a test!But let's say I actually wanted to do a serious Zora Coin release and get it more widely discovered and traded. What to do? Here, cue in Coinboost.
The Great Ghibli-fication and the Future of AI Art

3 weeks ago | bankless.com | William Peaster

Subscribe to Bankless or sign in After OpenAI launched its latest image gen capabilities in ChatGPT this week, the Great Ghibli-fication exploded across social media. You've seen it by now. Countless ideas, photos, memes all transformed into the iconic style of Studio Ghibli, the masterful Japanese animation studio. The novelty, ease, and excellent aesthetic results brought plenty of joy to the timeline.