Infinite vs Finite NFTs
Over the past several months there’s been a growing debate around NFT property rights that has (once more) divided CT: CC0 or copyright? Questions over publication, distribution, and monetization rights for NFTs have existed since the very beginning of the space, but have heated up especially in the past year as blue-chip collections have exploded in value. At the center of the closed IP camp is Yuga Labs, the juggernaut behind BAYC and recent acquirer of CryptoPunks and Meebits from Larva La...
Infinite vs Finite NFTs
Over the past several months there’s been a growing debate around NFT property rights that has (once more) divided CT: CC0 or copyright? Questions over publication, distribution, and monetization rights for NFTs have existed since the very beginning of the space, but have heated up especially in the past year as blue-chip collections have exploded in value. At the center of the closed IP camp is Yuga Labs, the juggernaut behind BAYC and recent acquirer of CryptoPunks and Meebits from Larva La...
New Dimensions
WTF can be built on Verse? Since unveiling Verse, I’ve received a ton of enthusiastic interest to build with the protocol. At the same time, I’ve also noticed a question repeatedly come up in conversation: “Verse is a cool idea, but what are some use cases?”. I think of Verse as not only a new way to exchange NFTs, but as an entirely new medium for digital objects. So today, I wanted to share some ideas I have for projects that can be built on Verse. Hopefully this will help to answer some qu...
New Dimensions
WTF can be built on Verse? Since unveiling Verse, I’ve received a ton of enthusiastic interest to build with the protocol. At the same time, I’ve also noticed a question repeatedly come up in conversation: “Verse is a cool idea, but what are some use cases?”. I think of Verse as not only a new way to exchange NFTs, but as an entirely new medium for digital objects. So today, I wanted to share some ideas I have for projects that can be built on Verse. Hopefully this will help to answer some qu...
Verse: The Hyperexchange Protocol
TLDR; The ability for digital objects to be their own medium of exchange enables a paradigm shift for media, culture, infrastructure, and identity on the internet. Over the past few months I’ve been obsessed with the concept of NFTs as digital objects, and how this framework necessitates a whole new paradigm for how internet-native objects are exchanged. Let’s first consider the impossible scope of physical objects. You can argue that literally anything made of atoms is an “object”, and tryin...
Verse: The Hyperexchange Protocol
TLDR; The ability for digital objects to be their own medium of exchange enables a paradigm shift for media, culture, infrastructure, and identity on the internet. Over the past few months I’ve been obsessed with the concept of NFTs as digital objects, and how this framework necessitates a whole new paradigm for how internet-native objects are exchanged. Let’s first consider the impossible scope of physical objects. You can argue that literally anything made of atoms is an “object”, and tryin...
Internet Cities & The Social Uniswap
On August 24 I first introduced Verse as a protocol to solve the problem of legitimacy constraints endemic in centralized media networks. These legitimacy constraints result from a lack of incentive alignment between centralized platforms and their users. Originally, Verse was designed to solve this problem though a multiplayer cryptomedia protocol. In this protocol, token-holding creators and curators would coordinate to build a high-signal feed of information by posting and curating media w...
Internet Cities & The Social Uniswap
On August 24 I first introduced Verse as a protocol to solve the problem of legitimacy constraints endemic in centralized media networks. These legitimacy constraints result from a lack of incentive alignment between centralized platforms and their users. Originally, Verse was designed to solve this problem though a multiplayer cryptomedia protocol. In this protocol, token-holding creators and curators would coordinate to build a high-signal feed of information by posting and curating media w...
Player: A Protocol for Continuous NFTs
A few weeks ago I introduced Verse, a protocol I’m working on to solve the problem of legitimacy-constrained social networks. At that time, I described Verse as a protocol for “multiplayer cryptomedia”. Some things have changed. While Verse is still focused on building an exponentially better model for multiplayer networks, it won’t be implemented through creating a new cryptomedia standard. But more on that backstory in a future post. While building Verse, one of the fundamental building blo...
Player: A Protocol for Continuous NFTs
A few weeks ago I introduced Verse, a protocol I’m working on to solve the problem of legitimacy-constrained social networks. At that time, I described Verse as a protocol for “multiplayer cryptomedia”. Some things have changed. While Verse is still focused on building an exponentially better model for multiplayer networks, it won’t be implemented through creating a new cryptomedia standard. But more on that backstory in a future post. While building Verse, one of the fundamental building blo...
