Discord: Imagine a Place | The Generalist

While Mark Zuckerberg believes he is best placed to homestead the metaverse, he may be surprised to find a thriving, indigenous species has already taken hold: Discord. More than any other business, the company is truly “metaverse native,” unwittingly built for the future. First designed for gamers — the metaverse’s pioneers — time has allowed it t... See more

what if Discord itself decentralized? What if instead of going public, Discord issued a token? $DISCORD has a nice ring to it. To be sure, this would represent an all-in pivot the likes of which the corporate world has never seen, at a time when everything is already coming up Discord. And it would also represent a legal nightmare, if it’s possible... See more

Though the company has succeeded in securing a $15 billion valuation and earns hundreds of millions in revenue, there’s the sense that its current manifestation is perhaps only halfway to its end state. For Discord to reach its obscene potential, CEO Jason Citron ​— no stranger to pivots — may have to embrace new technologies, consider different re... See more

-Discord is a centralized company.

-Give Discord a wedge into the wider internet and serve as its passport.

A centralized chat app seems an odd place from which to launch a decentralized revolution. As a result, many have called for a web3 Discord