Crypto wallets are no longer niche. Three years ago, there were 31 million crypto wallet users; today, there are close to 80 million. While there’s a long way to go before web3 reaches its full potential, products like MetaMask are far from esoteric. It has 21 million users alone.
We are attempting to build a product that is so good that you will make money from your writing even if you have no clue about business, technology, or link-coloring. Just type into a box, hit “publish,” and wait for the cash to fling itself at you.
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, wrote that “Legitimacy is a pattern of higher-order acceptance.” When enough people within the system question the system’s fairness it threatens the system's ability to continue to function, and you get a legitimacy crisis.
On the other hand, the notion of the “document” that is intrinsic to web development today is overdetermined by the legacy of print media. The web document is a static, finished artifact that does not bring in dynamic data. This is strange because it lives on a medium that is alive, networked, and dynamic, a medium which we increasingly understand ... See more
For months, I had been looking to invest in a stranger-to-stranger online interaction platform that would allow for monetization, but wasn’t a dating app. When cofounders Xiaoyin Qu and Xuan Jiang, both former Facebookers, showed me Run The World, I knew that vision had arrived. Like a hybrid of Zoom video, Eventbrite ticketing, Twitch interactivit... See more