Tokens of appreciating appreciation

I’m sure this is obvious, but I believe there’s a huge opportunity to help projects create long-term community loops that start with tokens of appreciation, and end with other forms of ownership.

It’s still too hard to use tokens: giving someone an NFT as a token of appreciation is actually quite a bit harder and more expensive than baking them their favorite cookies at the moment, and that has to change in order for projects or apps to use these tokens as flexibly as they need to if they want to capture ‘squishy’ human interactions.

I’m guessing you’ve given or received a great token of appreciation, so you know how powerfully human they are. When you spend all day moving someone into their new home, and then they bake you your very favorite type of cookies, they aren’t saying “now we’re even,” they’re saying “I appreciate what you did for me.” These kinds of tokens are powerf... See more