Austin Castellaw

Yet these two roles are in opposition to each other. A token needs to be exchangeable in order to be liquid. But the more liquid a token is, the less effective it can be as a pure signal of reputation. 

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

-Zach trying to design systems where people are compensated based on their value to the DAO and can meet their needs. One way paying people say a base salary and then rewarding people in native tokens for work above and beyond. Chase agrees with this kind of model. 

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

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.

Defensibility in web2 comes from proprietary data network effects. Each application is a walled garden, and a bigger user base translates into more utility vs. competitors.  The social network with most data, content, users, etc. is more valuable.

Reputation tokens on digital platforms typically serve two purposes:

In web3, the situation is different.  New marketplaces can aggregate all existing NFTs. New social networks can surface all on-chain activities regardless of whether users ever signed up. How can a moat develop?  A potential answer is tokens.