It’s particularly this interoperability and overlap between our digital apps, services & devices that will become as second-nature as swiping a screen on a phone… which creates a whole new world of opportunity for entrepreneurs.

However, for the first time in 20 years, email as a channel is about to have a legitimate peer…

Bottom line: This is the tip of the iceberg, and these are still early innings. Most of today’s projects will flop as part of the relay-race of mass adoption. But as you can hopefully see, the opportunities emerging for entrepreneurs are almost violently compelling.

“Okay, I guess Bitcoin is interesting as a ‘digital gold’ asset, but all the other cryptocurrencies seem like scams, and NFTs are just a weird ponzi scheme.”

For example, user-investors of FileCoin (an on-chain Dropbox alternative) who purchased $FIL tokens in 2019 have since seen their equity increase by about 25X. Filecoin uses their token to incentivize “miners” that provide their own devices as part of the storage cloud.

One of the possiblities that arise from a user’s Wallet ID being persistently connected to anything else on the same blockchain is that opt-in relationships between IDs (eg. followers, customers, subscribers) can similarly be ported, instantly & seamlessly, from one app / service / experience to any other... In plain English, if you follow someone... See more

What this means is that as a developer / publisher in Web3, you’ll be able to build “if/then” processes based on virtually anything that your users have ever purchased, sold or done on the blockchain.

What if we apply the same profiling capabilities described above towards a different objective: recruitment. And what if instead of looking at purchase behaviors, we look at specific tokens / NFTs issued by educational platforms, academies, talent pools, workplaces, freelance networks and so on?

The point is – millions of gamers are incredibly passionate, dedicated and very willing to invest substantial time & resources into digital worlds that they care about… even when there is little or no profit motive.