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Katelyn Donnelly
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Maksim Pecherskiy
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Blockchains are multiplayer.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Decentralized protocols would make very interesting base layers and I’m particularly excited about web3 in the context of identity. Does crypto solve the problem of suboptimal defaults? Well, that’s a different question and I’m honestly not sure. Just because you have decentralized base layers doesn’t mean you won’t see centralization, aggregation ... See more
Julian Lehr • The Power of Defaults
Most of the widely adopted products right now are extremely transactional - apps that help you exchange tokens for example. As Jesse Walden correctly points out, these products should commoditize their applications in order to drive more demand for their truly differentiated product, the underlying exchange.
Joey DeBruin • (Amazon) Prime time in web3
While venture capitalists are optimising for value extraction per mandate, crypto cooperatives intend to create and distribute value as broadly as possible in order to stay minimally extractive long term. This is why decentralization matters.
Alexander Lange • Venture capital formation for software cooperatives
The Three Components of Crypto Success: Product/market fit, Community participation, Sufficient decentralization (community ownership)
The need for product/market fit is obvious. Without a product people want, there are no users, no business, and it will be difficult to sustain a community for long. Community participation and decentralized control
... See moreJesse Walden • Progressive Decentralization: A Playbook for Building Crypto Applications | Andreessen Horowitz
Rob Estreitinho (Salmon Labs) https://x.com/robistyping
So if I step back, a good consumer token model in my mind:
- Releases a token early, recognizes the end state is entirely unclear, and maintains optionality on how it’ll evolve in future
- Has mechanics to distribute tokens over a long time frame to users / participants that are creating value
- Captures value from the speculation layer and funnels it into