Token-Curated Registries 1.0

If you’ve been following me and Messari for a while, you know I’m bullish on token-powered information curation. The v1 token-curated registry primitive had some flaws, but in general, curation markets could replace centralized, ad-driven algorithms, improve credentialing and social signaling, reduce low-value redundant work, and crowd-fund high-va... See more

In the NFT space, many believe buying NFTs is by default curation or creating a gallery to list NFTs for sale is curation. For example, many decentralized curation protocols incentivize third parties to create exhibits to sell NFTs presuming high quality curation can be incentivized with sales commission.

1/ Token curation markets use economic incentives to create crowd curated information feeds/lists on any topic. Feels like what will become an important crypto primitive:

In today's crypto ecosystems, token-based membership determines key considerations such as resource allocation, on-chain incentives, and off-chain decision-making. While a blockchain's censorship resistance may seem like the solution to a world of gatekeepers, in reality, pay-to-play limits access in other ways. Protocols may be owned by thousands,... See more

Since 2018, I’ve been intrigued by the concepts of curation markets and token-curated registries as a digital replacement for credentials. NFTs may prove to be the missing building blocks that finally make them work because they 1) granularize achievements, 2) have technical specifications that will make them easy to integrate across a variety of p... See more

Asset curation The most natural place for asset curation is NFT collection DAOs, such as PleasrDAO. DeFi DAOs can also face this problem. DeFi DAOs use their governance tokens as art and culture curators to vote on adding or removing assets. Anyone can create a trading pool in Uniswap, but those with leverage cannot. Governance determines which ass... See more

cryptomedia has seven distinct characteristics: * Token-based: an Ethereum-based Non-Fungible Token (NFT) * Permissionless: universally usable and censorship resistant * Universally accessible: open and available to the internet * Valuable: accrue value which is accessible to the owner and creator * Internet-native: created within and exists only o... See more