Funding future content with crypto (/memo)
A big platform's main value proposition is its scale and distribution. As these platforms expand the market, creators' original ideas are commoditized. Before the blockchain, it was difficult to trace the source of ideas. Now, we can use this to demonstrate how an idea has influenced society, and even to financially support the idea. Podcasting has become an increasingly popular form of content creation, with millions of people tuning in to listen to their favorite shows on a daily ...
Funding future content with crypto (/memo)
A big platform's main value proposition is its scale and distribution. As these platforms expand the market, creators' original ideas are commoditized. Before the blockchain, it was difficult to trace the source of ideas. Now, we can use this to demonstrate how an idea has influenced society, and even to financially support the idea. Podcasting has become an increasingly popular form of content creation, with millions of people tuning in to listen to their favorite shows on a daily ...
Open social graphs and the ownership opportunity (/memo)
Marbel is a web3 native communication platform. We built Marbel as a better way to foster collaboration between DAO members while allowing them to build their digital identity with their contributions. DAOs can host hubs for their communities, where each tokenized community features a Discourse-like discussion board. This is a one-pager that summarises the core premises, product, functionality and growth prospects.The problem: DAOs are missing a native coordination layerThe current coordinati...
Open social graphs and the ownership opportunity (/memo)
Marbel is a web3 native communication platform. We built Marbel as a better way to foster collaboration between DAO members while allowing them to build their digital identity with their contributions. DAOs can host hubs for their communities, where each tokenized community features a Discourse-like discussion board. This is a one-pager that summarises the core premises, product, functionality and growth prospects.The problem: DAOs are missing a native coordination layerThe current coordinati...
Blockchain allows for user-aligned metrics (/memo)
Since the boom of search engines, the internet has the wrong incentives - pushing content creators and media to design content for clicks and pageviews.The birth of the internet brought with it a new way for content creators to measure their impact on audiences. With search engines upon which anyone can post articles and other media, there is an exact metric for how many people have viewed each piece of content. This system has its pros and cons, but one of the biggest drawbacks is that it in...
Blockchain allows for user-aligned metrics (/memo)
Since the boom of search engines, the internet has the wrong incentives - pushing content creators and media to design content for clicks and pageviews.The birth of the internet brought with it a new way for content creators to measure their impact on audiences. With search engines upon which anyone can post articles and other media, there is an exact metric for how many people have viewed each piece of content. This system has its pros and cons, but one of the biggest drawbacks is that it in...
The Identity Maze (/memo)
Today’s internet participants are interacting with gated platforms and isolated identities. You can sign up to any platform with your Google, Apple or basic email and enjoy the product. But identities are not owned and that's a big deal. The application that a user is using is responsible for determining the identity of that user. The data behind any software product (ie. Instagram, Twitter, your B2B outreach software, etc.) makes them valuable. With usage and time, the accumulated histo...
The Identity Maze (/memo)
Today’s internet participants are interacting with gated platforms and isolated identities. You can sign up to any platform with your Google, Apple or basic email and enjoy the product. But identities are not owned and that's a big deal. The application that a user is using is responsible for determining the identity of that user. The data behind any software product (ie. Instagram, Twitter, your B2B outreach software, etc.) makes them valuable. With usage and time, the accumulated histo...
DeFi meets no-code (/memo)
I discovered crypto (mainly BTC and ETH) during my masters around 2017 after reading about it on Twitter. The crypto space has evolved rapidly and found its way to product-market fit, revolutionizing traditional finance (TradFi) for good and setting up the first stones for a more fair, balanced and decentralized finance (DeFi). Investors can now borrow against their crypto collateral, invest in crypto communities with social tokens or buy digital art. The proliferation of new types of alterna...
DeFi meets no-code (/memo)
I discovered crypto (mainly BTC and ETH) during my masters around 2017 after reading about it on Twitter. The crypto space has evolved rapidly and found its way to product-market fit, revolutionizing traditional finance (TradFi) for good and setting up the first stones for a more fair, balanced and decentralized finance (DeFi). Investors can now borrow against their crypto collateral, invest in crypto communities with social tokens or buy digital art. The proliferation of new types of alterna...
