Navigating Web3 With Fresh Eyes — my interview with Jackson Dame

Expanding on the Engagement capabilities mentioned earlier, one of the most interesting features baked into Web3 experiences is the ability to detect assets held by any given Wallet once it’s synched with a Dapp.

Web3's potential lies in its ability to work with and for culture. In this way, we must enable our products to both shape and be shaped by our collective narratives, values, and dreams. For web3 to achieve widespread adoption, it must transcend its role as a mere technological innovation and become entirely entwined with the development of culture.

As a community, our rebellion is against web3 technologies that read as hollowed-out utopian fantasies. Our enemy is the superficial allure of quick gains, and the lie that the path to mass adoption is the financialization of everything.

Instead, our goal is to work towards a suite of technologies that are deeply integrated into our cultural and soc... See more

Web3 protocols have an opportunity to do things differently, owing to the fact that they can distribute tokens to turn their users into owners, empowering them to govern the platform in alignment with their continued interests.

That said, the web3 experience still remains complex and confusing to all but the most technical or committed. By baking money into the protocols themselves, web3 has been able to bootstrap demand further ahead of user experience than the paradigms of the past, but that won’t be enough to cross the chasm.