Tim Beiko on Ethereum's moonshot | Meridian

one of the things that excites me the most about web3 is simply that it has spurred a re-thinking of many of the models and systems we’ve taken for granted, and provided a laboratory in which to experiment. In many situations, blockchains really are needed – tokengated commerce works because any merchant can read what’s in your wallet – but in many... See more

Developers can bootstrap their own projects and communities without having to build everything from scratch, because smart contract platforms like Ethereum are massive, open sandboxes to build systems that can reach a built-in global audience.

Non-crypto businesses can increase efficiency and have more functionality by plugging into open ecosystems like Ethereum — much like the API economy enabled companies of all kinds, including mom-and-pop shops and small businesses, to access data and competencies they wouldn’t otherwise have been able to. An example in the tech space, however, is Re... See more