The Dialogic Brand

Who or what can claim authority to manage a brand when ownership of a protocol is distributed among a network of users? In particular, who has the authority when those same users are often also responsible for the productive work of the project? When users own equity and stand to gain from increased adoption, those same users are strongly incentivi... See more

A decentralized brand is a fiction made real, an egregore, a self-sovereign entity that lives through the imagination and belief of many. One does not simply decide what a decentralized brand "is." It is not something that can be created by focus groups, strategists, and identity designers. Like Bitcoin, a decentralized brand has its own autonomy, ... See more

The fundamental tension of narrative control in the networked era is that most companies impose a hierarchical brand management model onto what has effectively become a distributed, permissionless process. And when the emergent meme-space of networked media meets censorship-resistant infrastructures, brands take on a life of their own. 

In its role as a strategic approach, it avoids rigid and outdated frameworks, instead evolving in real-time with shifting trends and perceptions. The Brand Universe demands that the internal workings of a brand, or creative project, exist in perfect harmony with the outward facing image of the business. The end result here is authenticity, and perh... See more

The brand should be more living, the world lives on social, the brand needs to fit within that world and that world is made up of real people and real interesting stuff. It's not made up of brands and it doesn't have these rigid rules. It's less of a brand and more of a character and a writers room.”