DeCential turns one year old today. To celebrate here are some of our favorite stories and podcasts from the past year.

The Australian app KSafe is gamifying safe driving by incentivizing drivers to adopt safe driving habits to earn rewards

Ready for your own virtual human?

Can festivalPass survive where other subscription-based event providers have failed? NFTs may be the answer, founder Ed Vincent believes.

Only seven months separate a swag-filled Dubai crypto expo from a much more austere scene this month

We caught up with prolific DJ Bergonist at the Sustain-Release festival in upstate New York to hear about her first foray into music NFTs

Daml Finance is a way to tokenize securities to improve the certainty of settlement

Inside a crypto pitch night in Dubai with two very different projects

A roundup of some of the most interesting goings on at Messari’s NYC Mainnet conference

Niche artist struggle to reach audiences that major labels don’t even try to target. Zyla is using web3 and NFTs to change that dynamic.

A taking of the cultural pulse of the crypto community from artists to comedians to meet ups and beyond.

Will regulators ever truly understand defi?

Cooper Turley helped pioneer social web3 as a co-founder of Friends With Benefits, but faced backlash after tweets he sent a decade ago surfaced. His path to redemption began with Music NFT Launchpad and we check in on his progress.

The Sandbox has $300 million to give away to game studios with an emphasis on startups in South East Asia

Singaporean tech futurist Soh Wan Wei with her mother Joyce Aw are building an ed-tech platform that hopes to onboard 10 million professionals to web3 with the help of AI teachers.

Did you know a Bored Ape NFT is running for election in Kuwait?

Meet the young female founders of Glow Labs who left JPMorgan behind to strike out on their own

The co-founder of the Panther Protocol, a mixer like Tornado Cash, worries that freedom and democracy are in decline

Russell Sheffield’s journey has taken him from London’s Trident Studios and the Beatles to creating Songbits which allows for NFT-based fractional song ownership

Christoph Jentzsch has been in Ethereum from almost the very beginning and his new venture aims to help the ecosystem keep evolving