Creators, Communities, and Crypto — Fred Ehrsam

Products like Foundation aim to bring mainstream creators and their audiences to crypto by allowing them to fund creative projects and earn new revenue streams. Reddit hopes to grow engagement by leveraging community currencies to make users actual owners of their sub's internal economy. Imagine users taking a loan against a pair of tokenized Yeezy... See more

Crypto is public, global and gamified by default, and commerce, identity and ownership are all built in from the get go. (How fun is that!) So we wonder, just like how the cloud enabled new types of digital experiences, or how smartphones enabled new types of location-based experiences, could crypto be a platform that enables new types of social ex... See more

And that’s a pretty exciting idea because it means that creators on the internet, everyday people who use internet products and services, will be able to earn more of the value that they contribute to those products. That’s because cryptocurrencies make it possible to distribute that value at internet scale instantly, to anyone, anywhere in the wor... See more