Network Bonding Theory: Grow Your Startup By Making It A Network

2. Cash (e.g. USD, EUR)

11. Real world perks like dinner/tickets to the ball game

3. Equity shares (traditional)

Tokens reveal network impacts that have alway been there. Including fan tokens in Messi’s comp package to make it incrementally more accurate as an approximation to his value creation for the PSG network. The tokens doubled in value when the signing was announced, so Messi’s comp from that token doubled. This is only 2021, so it wasn’t a huge part ... See more

Types of Compensation for Bonding

If a Kardashian creates a profile on Twitter, that’s worth something to Twitter. And if she posts crazy stuff 5 times per day, that’s worth a lot more. But if she never posts, that teaches the other nodes that Twitter isn’t cool. It indicated she has un-bonded, and it will have a negative impact on the network value. So you have to design carefully... See more

8. Some voting and/or decision making, ability to edit/change

I believe in the second inning, network bonding curves will also increase the income disparity at a geometric rate: Transparency of the value of an individual to a network creates a ruthless meritocracy. Meritocracy is good for the most talented, motivated or lucky. But for the bottom 90%, everyone can now see that they rank in the bottom 90% in pe... See more

You already see this with airdrops of new crypto network tokens to existing holders of Bitcoin or Ethereum holders, people who are most likely already wealthy. They are given free tokens with the hope they will bond to the new crypto project. This is a network bonding curve at work even though it’s still blunt today...The visibility and measuring o... See more