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In the first post of this month’s more compact issue of The Otonomist, we look back on OtoCo’s first half of 2022 and give an outlook for the second half. We then look under the bonnet of OtoCo’s refactored smart contracts and the use of NFTs as

A fair number of The Otonomist readers are non-crypto natives with curious minds who want to know more about blockchains and their applications. Many will be reading headlines about crypto markets’ cardiac arrest and wonder if the technology has any future. In this post, we urge those readers to look

This post covers the technical details regarding our new smart contract design and explains our use of the ERC-721 token standard.

Crypto winter feels less harsh when busy building, and OtoCo’s workload hasn’t changed. In this post, we’ll look back to what we’ve done so far in 2022. We will then be looking forward to the second half of the year in terms of product, code, and

On this last day of May, we’re posting on the regulatory foreboding out of Europe, where proposed new crypto rules risk veering the E.U. towards indiscriminate surveillance of its citizens. Part I and Part II analyze the proposed rules, with Part III commenting why they are wrong on

In this post, we look at some of risks of free association with a DAO.

In this first part, we take a closer look at the MiCA proposals as they stand, their potential impact on the crypto industry in Europe, and the timeframe towards adoption.

In this second part, we analyze the travel rule as part of the proposed Transfer of Funds Directive (TFR) and its practical implications.

In this last part, we summarize the key arguments brought by the crypto industry against the proposed new crypto regime in Europe and add some arguments of our own. We conclude with a call to action.