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Gavin Wood wants you to get a tattoo 🧐

Gavin Wood's back with a new project. It's weird.

GM. Liam here. 

Gavin Wood, the co-founder and Ethereum and founder of Polkadot, has a new venture up his sleeve.

In a rare interview, the Lancaster, England native explained how he would fix digital identities with a project called “proof-of-ink.”

In layman's terms, tattoos to prove who you are on the internet. And he’s one of the first to take the plunge, too.

During the interview with DL News, he showed his own QR-like code on his bicep.

It’s an insane idea, and one already tried some 85 years ago.

But like founding Ethereum in 2014, Wood says he’s simply doing what he’s always done: following his curiosity.

“To me, it’s not really worthwhile doing unless it’s novel,” he said. “I’m an experimenter.”

Wood may be as committed as ever, but many in the industry may wonder whether he’s disengaged from the project. Aside from getting new tattoos, he’s also trying to be a DJ.

Meanwhile, DOT, the native token for Polakdot, is down 50% this year.

When a well-known backer of one of the games industry’s newest hits said games entrepreneurs pivoting to crypto “don’t love games,” he struck a serious nerve. Callan Quinn reports.

With the ATOM token hitting a four-year low, at least one Cosmos critic wants answers. In a new proposal, reports Aleks Gilbert, Grace Yu demands the project’s foundation release years of its financial records.

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