Alex Wittenberg

Incentivized liquidity is when a protocol will pay you in their native token for helping supply liquidity to their trading pools. For example, the Curve 3Pool, which contains USDC, USDT, and DAI, is currently only earning 1.55%, but sometimes ranges as high as 10%. Why is your yield so much higher there? Because you're getting paid in CRV tokens.

Tokenized: coordinates around a commonly held token on a blockchain.

Aggregation, acquisitions, and partnerships will happen at the product layer as much or more than in web2, even given an interoperable and composable landscape. People will want fewer rather than more Prime-like memberships, so established organizations with already successful products will have an edge on building or partnering with complementary... See more

Here, design, development, and content creation are no longer merely tools for generating revenue; they are also tools of community organizing. Here, design and engineering take on the valence of care, and the emotional involvement of being a contributor, moderator, and member. Where does “design” end and “moderation” begin? Because the mainstream... See more

More and more people will consider themselves “creators,” regardless of whether they make it a living. They will see their intellectual output as a body of work, which they can grow and evolve over time independently of themselves. The original vision of the Internet as a knowledge sharing network will come to fruition, as more and more people’s... See more

Illich was not a romantic, and he is often explicit about the futility of romanticizing the past. But even more importantly, the apparent severity, from the perspective of consumerist assumptions, was, in fact, a pathway to the experience of life-giving community, environmental health, meaningful work, social solidarity, and personal well-being.... See more

In other words, the more we seek to control the world, the more it will fail to speak to us, and, consequently the more alienated and dissatisfied we will feel. I might even put it this way: Rosa aims to show that how we set about to find meaning, purpose, or happiness more or less guarantees that we will never find any of them. The rest of the... See more

There are a few elements of Prime that are very important and I believe transferable to web3 consumer applications: