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While there are certainly a large degree of differences in exchange mechanics and in the underlying technology between Uniswap and exchanges such as Coinbase, the defining difference is in their ownership structures. Coinbase is owned exclusively by its founders, investors and early employees, whereas Uniswap is majority owned by its users.

Saying you’re building DAO tooling is like saying you’re building tools for corporations. It doesn’t really mean anything. There are protocol DAOs, social DAOs, NFT collector DAOs, service DAOs, grant DAOs, and more.  So the first step in building DAO tooling is to clearly define the target audience.

This leaves us with some low-hanging fruit for humanness. We can tell richly detailed stories grounded in our specific contexts and cultures: place names, sensual descriptions, local knowledge, and, well the  je ne sais quoi  of being alive. Language models can decently mimic this style of writing but most don't without extensive prompt e

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Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception of it. An example I love that is not mentioned in the book: for years, few people bought “death insurance.” Then some genius changed the name to life insurance and grew the industry by many billions of dollars. After all, life insurance sounds so much better than death insurance.

Twitter is one of the most dominant free networks, but it has only recently begun to offer payment capability. This provides one salient example of a creator platform that undersells the pitch. The company recently introduced the “Super Follows” feature, in which users can pay to receive bonus content from accounts they love. The service launched i... See more