How might we make the system we imagined above more of a reality? What building blocks do we still need?

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

-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... See more

We are at the point where we need the initial valuable apps to pull the data out and do the work of structuring it for many more products to be built on top. After all, the platforms that own this data aren’t hoarding it in private vaults - that was web2 vibes.

To give some concrete examples, here are some on-chain signals that would make high quality non-gamifiable endorsements:

-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.

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

-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.

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