Crypto Social

The most successful web3 social apps are going to look completely different than web2 social (rather than building "decentralized Twitter/FB/X") They'll lean into financial speculation & create new economic status games.

Crypto gaming and play-to-earn is a misnomer. “True” gameplay is expenditure of time by the player for sacred entertainment value, not secular economic value. That sacred value can later be monetized, but by being financially motivated first, the atomic value swap (1/4)

web2 social: virtual currencies (likes, follows, retweets, subs) stored on company databases and owned by them web3 social: programmable tokens (NFTs and fungibles) stored on public blockchains and owned by your private key

A half-baked idea re: signatures and trust for Web3

The future of education is not homeschooling, bootcamps, or cohort-based courses It's proof-of-learning: - Learning on the job through micro-tasks (applied learning) - Resume auto builds as you prove learnings digitally - Earn ownership in networks as you learn

Today I'm announcing the first build of a new tool that will change DeFi forever. In a world plagued by scams and rug-pulls, community-run Sybil-resistance is extremely important. ENS blazed this path, but now it's time for the ENS of DeFi knowledge: Introducing: Lobby Wiki 🧵

Rather a lot of people in tech wonder if crypto, or large parts of it, is an emperor with no clothes and don’t want to say so publicly. That’s not to say that it is, but there is a real reluctance to be publicly skeptical regardless of private sentiment.

If we create a world of more exclusive groups based on even more exclusive assets what have we really done for humanity? Is this what we are calling decentralization?

The most existential question in crypto: what will be the relationship between tokens and communities? At stake: can DAOs bring virtue back to scaled organization? Or will they accelerate the economics-only mentalities that have been corroding society? A way-too-long-🧵👇