Chris Dixon wrote an excellent thread on Tokens as a new “digital primitive”, outlining how they enable a new paradigm/era of the web. In this post, I’m trying to riff on his thinking, expanding a bit on how I think Web3 is really different to web 2.0, and what truly novel applications may already be conceivable today, both across “Multi-Player” and “Single Player” Crypto. First - let’s consider again how Web3 is different to what we’ve come to understand as web 2.0: If you zoom out far enoug...

Chris Dixon wrote an excellent thread on Tokens as a new “digital primitive”, outlining how they enable a new paradigm/era of the web. In this post, I’m trying to riff on his thinking, expanding a bit on how I think Web3 is really different to web 2.0, and what truly novel applications may already be conceivable today, both across “Multi-Player” and “Single Player” Crypto. First - let’s consider again how Web3 is different to what we’ve come to understand as web 2.0: If you zoom out far enoug...