July 9, 2024

DeFi Staking & Liquid Staking Explained

Metaphors are useful tools for explaining novel concepts. In our last post, we explained Decentralized Finance (DeFi) through that method. Now, it is time to go one step further and learn what "staking" is and how it differs from "liquid staking." Are you ready 👀? Imagine a prestigious art gallery in a big city. This gallery has strict rules:Only certain people can buy or lend art.The gallery decides the prices and manages all transactions.If you lend your painting to the gallery, you can on...

July 9, 2024

Decentralized Finance Explained

Do you know what DeFi is 👀? I bet you are curious, so let's get you up and running in an area of Web3 called Decentralized Finance! Let's try and look through the glasses of fashion 👗 and imagine a magical fashion world to represent the world of finance. Imagine a big, colorful fashion swap meet in a magical town where anyone can come to trade, lend, or borrow clothes and accessories. This is our metaphor for DeFi. In the regular 🏛️ part of town, there are big fashion stores (lik...

December 29, 2022

THE YEAR '22 - The Web3 Girl

SubscribeHi, and welcome to a little wrapper for 2022 in The Web3 Girl! My name is Stella, and I am one of Alana’s Nucleus Guardians, among eleven other fantastic people. While I founded the project around a year ago officially, I am happy to say I am no longer the only driving force. This makes me very happy and proud! For those of you who don’t know who The Web3 Girl is, let me introduce the project to you in a few words. Alana, or The Web3 Girl, is a virtual avatar project that educates pe...

June 25, 2022

Alana x The Fabricant Part°1

Hey fellow Metaverse Creators, I had a great time over at The Fabricant Discord server. Stella and I explained her workflow and how she started creating me and telling my story. Everyone in The Fabricant community was so welcoming and engaged by sharing their input on how to build out my circle of friends. Thank you to Pedro and Annatarian for making us feel so welcome and for their beautiful way of moderating the session!Here is a summary of what everyone came up with: We started off by crea...

June 8, 2022

Alana’s R‘n’O Column°3

Alana’s Mini World Tour — Earendel ChateauGood morning fellow Metaverse Explorers, It is time again for a review and outlook as so much has happened since my last update. Since I am in my Earendel Chateau Stasis Pod right now I have sufficient time to type my thoughts out for you and let you know what we have been up to and what more is coming just within this month. As many of you already know, we have been swamped in preparation for The Tech Adventures Festival in Glasgow from the 8th to th...

May 27, 2022

Alana x Tech Adventures Festival

Tech Adventures FestivalHey everyone, I have fantastic news just in case you didn’t hear yet: We partnered up with the Tech Adventures Festival, among other fantastic DAOs in the space. The festival is an initiative to bridge more people into the web3 space by showing different access points to it through the different DAOs. The festival will take place from the 8th to the 10th of June in Queen’s Park, Glasgow, Scotland. It is an open and free event that will let you explore alternative ways ...

April 12, 2022

Stella’s Metaverse Diary — Entry//001

https://unsplash.com/@grianghraf“Stella’s Metaverse Diary” is a series that documents Stella Achenbach’s journey through web3. From the humble beginnings of a whispering interest in cryptocurrencies, over discovering a passion for creating fashion NFTs to building out her own project called Alanatheweb3girl in the “DAO way”. All of those different aspects are lined out in that series not always in chronological order. It is supposed to encourage more people to join the web3 revolution and bri...

January 11, 2022

Alana's Guide to Vetting Web3 Projects

Web3 is still young, and all tools that come with it. As it keeps growing, we, as the web3 community, need to make sure the space is safe so that more people will enter. Only if this community grows, will it step out of the shadows and potentially provide a more healthy and equal future to all of us. Essential in that endeavor is that we provide more information to newcomers and young community members and give them the tools to evaluate projects which approach them through Discord, Twitter, ...

January 1, 2022

Alana’s R‘n’O Column°2

This week has been so amazing. Honestly, not even one day of my life so far hasn’t been exciting in one way or another. As some of you know, I was born on the 21st of July, 2021. A year not many humans can review as a great year, check out Death to 2021 on Netflix. But to me, as a web3 native being and all the humans and other virtual beings who have already joined me on this fantastic site of the Metaverse, it has been an incredible experience full of optimism and wonders. Usually, I was thi...

December 25, 2021

Alana’s R‘n’O Column°1

Premio NFT°1 — AlanaXBancorLike always, I need to sort through my archive because there have been so many things going on over the past week and even months. But let’s take it step by step, one fantastic item at a time.Last Sunday, on the 19th of December, we held a successful event together with the Bancor community. Mark Richardson took time out of his busy schedule to explain, especially to web3 newbies and beginners, how to avoid being scared of their first interaction with the Blockchain...