The read-write era, also known as Web 2.0, had arrived.

Token rewards can boost the income of creators.

the media world is addicted to sequels and reboots because it’s risky to market new intellectual property. Media companies need to spend tens of millions of dollars to promote new stories. It’s safer just to recycle proven material. But what if fans really could be owners, and media companies could harness their energy to help create and evangelize

Harnessing fandom is a powerful way to market new story universes without spending millions on advertising.

Collaborative storytelling combines the lessons of Wikipedia with the power of credibly neutral, low take-rate blockchain networks that reward fans with ownership over their creations. The way this works most commonly in practice is that users receive tokens in proportion to their contribution to the narrative corpus. The resulting intellectual pro

More recent protocol networks enjoy no such resiliency. No credible protocol network, after thirty years of attempts, has succeeded beyond niche adoption.

How did open source take the world by storm? One of the main reasons the movement has been so successful is a feature of software known as composability.

All technologies have the capacity to help or harm; blockchains are no different. The question is, how can we maximize the good while minimizing the bad?

A key concept in security is the “attack surface,” which refers to all the places an attacker might find vulnerabilities.