Severin Matusek

The community is currently in its pre-DAO phase during which we run various trials with early community members.

The rest of us have the misfortune of living in a superfan’s world.

The "checks and balances" no longer come from Congress or the courts, but from the feed.

In Web1, because of our age and because of the technical skills that were needed, we couldn't really participate in it.

AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

The internet solved distribution for many types of creative work but it never solved monetization. Media was distributed at scale on ad-based platforms and streaming services, so in that sense it was monetized, but not in a way that meaningfully accrued to artists themselves.

I deeply believe that the Trojan horse for crypto adoption is intellectual property (IP) because of its ability to create trust and credibility in a space that lacks the ladder, and memecoins, like NFTs, are a form of IP.

Part of being part of a group is to adopt their worldview. We carry multiple identities all the time. Group-derived identities are just as important to us as personal identities.