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

6. Status symbols

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

Now that we can start to measure the value that each node adds to a network, those nodes will begin to demand greater compensation for bonding to it. The concept of each node getting compensated for its worth to the network will eventually be built into every piece of software that is engaged in building a network effect.

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

We believe that all companies with network effects will have tokens in the next five years to help them bond nodes to their networks, both their product network and their company network.

9. Premier software features

14. Tokens (fungible)

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

Types of Compensation for Bonding

In the past, we only had cash and stock as ways of approximating a node’s value to the network. Those were such blunt tools, so the idea of more closely approximating your network value to your actual compensation rarely came up. But now we have crypto. And that mechanism allows us to measure cheaply and discreetly.