What is a Compound Crypto Company?
Enduring on-chain products will measure twice and cut once. While blockchains don't have to be financial, today's market has put a price on almost every token, contract code is public, and the future of crypto regulation is unclear. Because of this, the products that will make it through waves of scammers/hackers, downswings in token value, and pot... See more
Theodora Chu • On Falling Down the Rabbit Hole
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Crypto founders have a unique challenge in front of them. In addition to building a product that people want, they also need to consider how that product can successfully run in a decentralized manner — that is, as a protocol owned and operated by a community of users. This is a difficult challenge because much of what it takes to build a suc
... See moreJesse Walden • Progressive Decentralization: A Playbook for Building Crypto Applications | Andreessen Horowitz
We think that the difficulty of storing and indexing data in a scalable way is something that has been underestimated by most of the crypto space. For a long time, the entire space has been limited to finite state applications without much consideration for the wide range of infinite state applications, like social apps and marketplaces, that in fa... See more
Deso • Web3 Will Not Be Built on Smart Contracts • DeSo (Decentralized Social) Blockchain
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This is the great exciting and invigorating puzzle today. How does a successful company leverage decentralized databases, their novel capital structure (token cap table), their different regulation, and fresh ways of acquiring users into a massive business?I don’t know yet, but I do know when it comes, we won’t call it a web3 company.
Tomasz Tunguz • The End of Web3 by @ttunguz
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