Austin Castellaw

And so when people are designing these incentive mechanisms and tokens, what types of factors are they considering? Whether it’s things like fairness or liquidity or security or the developer ecosystem, or I’m sure there’s plenty of other considerations. But what do you find that people are thinking about and tend to value? For some of the... See more

The cycle is pretty much - creator attracts viewers on Y → Y becomes the ideal platform for viewers to view their creators → Y uses creator to attract more creators → Y gets more creators, earning them more money, allowing them to attract more creators → but now Youtube virtually has monopoly over all other similar platforms and creators → They get... See more

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.

And is that like a W2 type situation or a 1099?

Web3 emphasizes the freedom of the individual. In an ideal Web3 world, creator A is on a decentralized platform Z instead, which is run by smart contracts and gives creators more of their revenue. On top of that, platform Z probably has some tokens like $ZDAO that control governance - and this tokenization of governance disallows unilateral... See more

I get paid in a lot of different ways which is the fun part of this. So, there are a few different ways. One of them is in tokens that are effectively like governance tokens from a DAO. So, for Index for example, I’m paid in Index tokens. I personally hold those tokens. Some people who are paid in those tokens sell them right away, it depends on if... See more

The gaming industry is slowly waking up to blockchain technology. It will dramatically change the gaming landscape to the benefit of gamers.