Market-Protocol Fit

In a highly decentralized system, these operations invert such that the community finds product solutions themselves: "market-product fit." Cryptoeconomic protocols are market frameworks looking for potential product applications. The work of exploring parallel narratives, discovering emergent use cases, and testing solutions is distributed among m... See more

In other words, companies are valuable when they continuously extract value for shareholders. Protocols are valuable when they continuously create value for the public. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1492780094/19098815... See more

The Three Components of Crypto Success: Product/market fit, Community participation, Sufficient decentralization (community ownership)

The need for product/market fit is obvious. Without a product people want, there are no users, no business, and it will be difficult to sustain a community for long. Community participation and decentralized control

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Crypto founders have a unique challenge in front of them. In addition to building a product that people want, they also need to consider how that product can successfully run in a decentralized manner — that is, as a protocol owned and operated by a community of users. This is a difficult challenge because much of what it takes to build a suc

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Incentive DesignTokenomics are a tool for aligning the incentives of participants in a network. It is extremely important to identify what behavior is required from each participant in an ecosystem in order for the network to achieve a virtuous cycle. Equally important is designing suitable token incentives that encourage the desired market behavio... See more

As the ecosystem builds market infrastructure components in a decentralised manner, value accrues at the protocol layer (growing token value) which provides reliability of governance across all market infrastructure components. Conversely, as the token value increases, more market participants come on board to create new forms or market infrastruct... See more