2021 End of Year Update

web3 adventures, health-battle, 2022 Aspirations

Hello from the Himalayas!

Friends, I hope you’re doing well. Amid the news barrage of covid, climate, crypto, china, and inflation — I hope you made it through, stronger and better. After a gap of 7 months, I am resuming writing again — starting with a year-in-review update.

1. Web3 adventures

   1. Web3 community — I have been working with RARA Social to design the community incentives.

      • extrinsic ones as in tokenomics & social badges

      • instrinsic ones as in sense of belonging in a tight-knit community

      P.S. RARA Social is a web3 startup, working on decentralized curation of NFTs. In short, think token rewards and on-chain reputation for early NFT fans, curators (and of course, artists). Productized with a recurring NFT race and eventually baked into a decentralized-curation protocol.

   2. Tried Quadratic Funding and zero-knowledge rollups (Ethereum 2.0). I contributed to the gitcoin grants crowdfunding campaign for a longevity research collective. Screenshots in tweets below.

      • zk-rollups : I can do batch transactions for much cheaper without sacrificing the decentralization and security of Ethereum.

      • quadratic funding: my $100 contribution to three projects turned into $3400 for those projects via a matching pool.

      DΞΞPVI₿Ξ 🤌 @vinaydebrou

      @chaserchapman @gitcoin @zksync Retried zksync: fees for three transactions: $1

      

      DΞΞPVI₿Ξ 🤌 @vinaydebrou

      @chaserchapman @gitcoin @zksync this is how quadratic funding works My total $100 contribution to these three crowdfunding campaigns resulted in $3404 in total going to these campaigns

      

   3. Published my first post on Mirror — vinaydebrou.eth (my 2019 essay on Network of Free-Agent Clusters). I might publish there more often to share my web3 learnings.

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2. Personal health-battle

   In October, I was diagnosed with abdominal tuberculosis (treatment ongoing). Dealing with outdated and inefficient healthcare infrastructure in India, my desire to see the consumer-grade personal health-tech accelerate grew. After a bit of research, I identified three areas where we need to push for wider adoption for this to work.

   1. Quantified self + AI (to make-sense of the data) — with devices/wearables like Levels, Veri, and Oura and of course, Apple Watch.

   2. Marketplaces of best healthcare professionals for remote consulting

   3. Open-source drug research & development (New Science, Four Thieves Vinegar)

3. Exciting projects I am am keeping an eye on —

   • Other Internet — applied research into social tech like DAOs

   • VitaDAO — decentralized longevity research

   • The Graph Protocol — indexing web3

   • Creator Cabins — network of nomad-enclaves in making

   • Replit — gamechanger for coding beginners — free, in-browser IDE

   • Crypto Cities — early experiments in blockchain-ifying cities.

   • bluesky — Jack Dorsey’s push towards a decentralized social-network protocol

   • New Science — seeding new institutes of life-sciences research

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4. 2022 Aspirations

   1. Host a virtual party in Decentraland/CryptoVoxels — with drinks, friends and music.

   2. Jetman Vinay — fly a personal jetpack in Dubai

   3. Buy coffee with bitcoin (in El Salvador?)

   4. Fund an independent longevity-research lab (via VitaDAO?)

   5. Relocate to next homebase — Lisbon/Porto (portugal)

5. Music

   According to Spotify 2021 Wrapped, I’m into French Indiepop and my audio aura is —ecstatic and chill. Well, I don’t disagree with data :)

   Keeping it vibey, here’s my music recommendation for you —

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That’s it folks, for now. Enjoy your Holiday season!

Until next time,

Vinay

vinaydebrou.eth