Writing
The reading room
Essays from the partners — the thesis, NFTs and culture, prediction markets and the cycles in between. The canonical homes are Nick Tomaino’s The Control ↗ and 1confirmation.com; this room collects them.
6 essays · 2017 → today
Currently on display
The archive
Author
Topic
6 of 6 essays in the archive
January 15, 2026
The Investor Who Backed Polymarket Before the Crowd
Prediction markets went from crypto curiosity to front-page infrastructure. The conviction came years earlier.
1confirmation · Prediction Markets
November 6, 2025
Building When the Market Doesn't Care
The best companies in the portfolio were built in the quiet — when attention was elsewhere and conviction was cheap.
1confirmation · Market Cycles
2021
1confirmation Fund III
Introducing the $125M third fund — culture, consumer crypto, and the next decade of open networks.
Nick Tomaino · Thesis
2021
Stories, Scarcity, and Mimetic Desire
Why NFTs work: stories we tell each other, scarcity we can verify, and desire that imitates desire.
Nick Tomaino · NFTs & Culture
2017
Tokens, Tokens and More Tokens
An early map of the token landscape — written when most of the industry still called it all 'altcoins.'
Nick Tomaino · Thesis
2017
Introducing 1confirmation
A $26M fund for the decentralization of the web and society — one confirmation at a time.
Nick Tomaino · Thesis
A note on provenance
Essays live at their canonical homes, thecontrol.co and 1confirmation.com. This room collects them; nothing is re-hosted.