Community
The primary development of STPv2 is Tiers, which can be understood as the ability for creators to provide different offerings at different price-points.
For example, a subscriber to the $5 tier might only get access to Bob’s newsletter, while a subscriber at the $10 tier gets access to Bob’s newsletter and his private group chat. Creators can... See more
For example, a subscriber to the $5 tier might only get access to Bob’s newsletter, while a subscriber at the $10 tier gets access to Bob’s newsletter and his private group chat. Creators can... See more
Subscription Token Protocol – V2
The subscription access business model results in a creator’s dilemma. If their best content is paywalled, how will they demonstrate the value of subscribing to new readers? If their best content is paywalled, subscribers have no way of accurately assessing the quality of a creator’s work.
Author Address • Luxury Media
When content production is infinite, we’re left asking, “ What is this all for?” An abundance of content leaves us with a dearth of context and meaning. Under the physics of infinity, media doesn’t need to be a vehicle for delivering more content. Instead, it should act as a lens through which we sensemake with content, and as a container for... See more
Author Address • Luxury Media
One of the most powerful, unique features of STP is Subscriber Rewards, which allow creators to share a percentage of their revenue with subscribers. Our philosophy has always been that your earliest subscribers should get rewarded more than later subscribers, incentivizing support for Hypersub creators from the earliest days.
In STPv2, we’ve... See more
In STPv2, we’ve... See more
Subscription Token Protocol – V2
I have worked hard to stay close to my childhood friends, not just in the ‘knowing the events of each other’s lives’ sense (though this is a worthwhile aim!), but also in the sense that: I want to let them continue to know me and who I was becoming as I transformed , even as I shed versions of myself they had come to know so well. Because I love... See more
returning from the hero's journey
We no longer lack tools for creating content. When content production and distribution is infinite, the important aspect is its primary function in crafting and proliferating culture*.* In other words, the value of content today comes primarily from its use in cultural production.
Author Address • Luxury Media
The longstanding struggles of digital media businesses drive home the fact that internet-native media requires a fundamentally different business approach. Monetizing content assumes that the value is held in the content itself. Under the physics of infinity – frictionless content creation and distribution – the marginal value of every additional... See more
Author Address • Luxury Media
so, what's the onchain equivalent to substack?
hypersub.
hypersub is the economic infrastructure for future communities, the financial rail that empowers creators to build their communities through media and channels that best align with any evolving brand.
like substack, it provides a direct creator-audience relationship that aligns incentives... See more
hypersub.
hypersub is the economic infrastructure for future communities, the financial rail that empowers creators to build their communities through media and channels that best align with any evolving brand.
like substack, it provides a direct creator-audience relationship that aligns incentives... See more
hypersub as the crypto substack
“I wonder if choosing off-grid living implies an abandonment of our current world, instead of integrating with existing systems and trying to make them better,” she asks me. “The off-grid lifestyle seems to invite people to actively leave society with the assumption that since this is not working, there must be a better way out there .”