Your next sweatshirt could be hardware for on-chain activities
Let’s just get the word out of the way. “Phygital.” The buzzword emerged during the peak of the NFT craze alongside terms like “WAGMI” and “fren.” Much of this vocabulary became officially uncool when the likes of Meta and Pepsi posted cringe-inducing tweets celebrating their entry into the metaverse. Now, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief and move on. “Phygital” can finally be laid to rest. Nichanan Kesonpat prefers the term “digiphysical.” The word intentionally places a little more emphasis on the physical good that is inextricably coupled with on-chain records and property rights. In a recent blog, she writes, “this means that the physical and digital are no-longer distinct products, but two sides of the same coin.” Kesonpat, a researcher at 1kx, spoke to Chase Chapman on the On the Other Side podcast (Spotify/Apple) about the evolution of the technology and its broadening capabilities. “A digiphysical good is a physical item with a cryptographic linkage to s