Costly signals of skill

-Clear applications for contribution and affiliation data. Valuable applications of this data create the incentives for bringing more of it on-chain. This is one of the primary reasons we launched Backdrop, but there will be many different platforms all building on top of this same data.

-If we work together for many hours over a significant period of time, you probably feel I’m worthy of your time.

the next iteration of the internet (or web3) will disentangle reputation from affiliation via more frequent and more granular endorsements.

Perhaps the biggest question is how will the ecosystem continue to incentivize interoperability and collaboration given that first party data is still very valuable?

Put another way, we have to resist this skeuomorphic temptation to think that everything is better on the blockchain. Some things, when put on blockchains, just become the same as they were before, but on a blockchain

-Contribution and role data. Right now there is simply no way to know who works in what DAO, who is in what guild, or who has done what project.

-If you fund me multiple times, you clearly believe I have done and will do good things with that funding.

-If you hire me for a project, and then you hire me for two other projects in the future, you probably believed that first and second project to be successful.

-Cleaner graph/standards. This will be an obvious point to anyone building in web3 at the moment, but the data is a (beautiful) mess. If you want to use a contribution graph right now — which people are connected to which DAOs and which projects and so on — you have to do quite a bit of manual work. For example, there’s no ENS type solution for pro... See more