Austin Castellaw

I think one of the most important things is for protocol teams or communities to first figure out what it is that they’re trying to accomplish and what their token specifically will be used for. For a lot of work token models like KEEP, NuCypher, or The Graph, the token is used to provide a service — the token is serving as a tax medallion. And so... See more

Play-To-Earn then turns into Play-To-Zero.

But this new model of compensation isn’t without questions & challenges.  One criticism is that this model of peer-driven compensation incentivizes more visible, externally-facing work—which may not be correlated with impact—versus more unseen independent contributions.

With these market conditions come implicit assumptions around the future state of crypto. For builders and investors to meet expectations over the next 5-10 years, how much market cap creation will we need to see? How much institutional capital will need to enter the space to support these assets? Where might institutions allocate? How can both... See more

Reputation tokens on digital platforms typically serve two purposes:

Through off-chain scaling, users will have access to unlimited computation at a cheap cost. Thus, games' logic could be finally deployed on-chain as smart contracts. We will refer to this family of games as strongly on-chain games.