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I’m William Matthew Peaster.

-a permalancer professional writer, editor, and English consultant

-specializing in the Ethereum, DeFi, and NFT beats

-creator of the DeFi Arts Intelligencer newsletter

-learning German and a handful of Romance languages

-writing fiction and poetry

-collecting and creating digital art

-playing chess (1. d4 … your move)

EDUCATION

-University of West Florida, Bachelor’s degree, Creative Writing (2014)

-Enterprise-Ozark State Community College, Associate’s degree, English (2012)

WORK HISTORY (past 5 years)

-Bankless (Contributing writer)

-Async Art (Contributing writer / Artist advocate)

-nft42 (Content writer)

-defiprime (DeFi writer)

-ETHwriter (Community Manager)

-Jack Wild Publishing (Poetry editor)

-Securities Ventures (Newsletter writing)

-Blockonomi (Cryptocurrency news writing)

-Bitsonline (Cryptocurrency news writing, associate editor)

-Noir Tower (Technical writing consultant)

-Jourist Verlags (Lead technical writer & editor)

-Lane Change Media (Ghostwriter)

-Underwater Mountains Publishing (Senior creative editor)

-SAGE Media (Contributing scholar)

-SuperSummary (Literary consultant)

PORTFOLIO SAMPLES

Article writing

-How to migrate LEND and stake AAVE - Bankless

-How to protect your Ethereum wallet - Bankless

-TokenSmart NFT Humpday Report #3: The Big Fat Blue Kirby Scam - nft42

-TokenSmart NFT Humpday Report #4: The Musical Revolution Will Be Tokenized - nft42

-TokenSmart NFT Humpday Report #5: Axie Infinity Is Catching Fire, Launching AXS - nft42

-Distortion Genius: Bård Ionson, a Singular Artist for a New Age - Async Art

-Initial DeFi Offering - defiprime

-Bonding Curve Offering Explained - defiprime

-Inside DeFi Yield Farming: a Beginner’s Guide to the Latest Craze in DeFi - defiprime

-Portrait of an Artist as a Young Etherean: On Winning New Creators to Ethereum - SuperRare

-Async Fundamentals: New Usability Improvements - Async Art

-Burn Signal, Gitcoin Grants, and Finding Consensus Amid Evolution - Burn Signal

-Burn Signal, Preference Signaling for Ethereum’s Hot Topics - Burn Signal

-Art on Ethereum: a Beginner’s Guide to Cryptoart - defiprime

-On the Zcash Counterfeit Flaw Fix: Questions to Ponder - Bitsonline (given a shoutout by Zcash founder Zooko)

News writing

-It’s Alive! NASA Discovers Cactus Vegetation on Mars - Fictional sample

PR / Business writing

-Hoverboard Sharing Startup Rebekkont Raises $14.2 Million in Series A Round - Fictional sample

Educational Writing

-Ethereum Casper Explained - Binance Academy

-What Is Mimblewimble? - Binance Academy

Newsletter writing

-DeFi Pulse Farmer #6 (DeFi Recap & Farm of the Week Sections) - example from Sept. 2020)

-DeFi Arts Intelligencer - example from Feb. 2020

-The Defiprime Post #7 (weekly) - example from Sept. 2020

-Defiprime Newsletter #24 (monthly) - example from Sept. 2020

Editing

-12,000 dictionary entries in Jourist Verlag’s award-winning Visual Dictionary app

-The 1st edition of R. H. Sin’s best-selling Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel poetry series

-The 1st edition of Christopher Poindexter’s best-selling poetry chapbook Lavender

-Minor open-source copyediting in the Ethereum GitHub and the Zcash GitHub

Reviews

-SafePal S1 Review: Inside the Crypto Hardware Wallet Backed by Binance Labs

Academic writing

-Donne’s Doctrinal Heterogeneity in the “Holy Sonnets”

-“I have shored against my ruins”: Fragmentation in The Waste Land

Creative writing

-My poem “On Sensuality” came in 3rd place in a translation competition held by Harvard Simplicissimus Fall 2014 issue

Selected poetry

“I’m” - July 2020

“The Path” - Aug. 2020

“Not on Track” - Aug. 2020

Digital art

“Frying a Rare Egg Is Hard”

“Portrait of a Millennial”

Find more of my art on my Instagram: @gwilymynys

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I can be reached via email (wmpeaster@gmail.com), Twitter (@WPeaster), or Telegram (@wmpeaster). I accept gig payments in USD (paypal.me/wpeaster), ETH or ERC-20 tokens (wmp.etherbase.eth), or bitcoin.