Web3 has introduced a new type of organization: Tokenized Communities. While they have much in common with more traditional organizations, tokenized communities promote fundamentally different economic models than the mainstream organizations that preceded them. For example, we value traditional companies based on assets and cash flows. Companies with more capital – or expected ability to absorb more capital in the future – are ideally valued more highly than others. That isn’t the case for e...

Web3 has introduced a new type of organization: Tokenized Communities. While they have much in common with more traditional organizations, tokenized communities promote fundamentally different economic models than the mainstream organizations that preceded them. For example, we value traditional companies based on assets and cash flows. Companies with more capital – or expected ability to absorb more capital in the future – are ideally valued more highly than others. That isn’t the case for e...

Chu and Fancy are part of the core team at Protein Community, these thoughts are their own and don't represent the views of the full Community. We'd like to say thank you to Other Internet and their article on Headless Brands, which was integral to our thinking.Something is happening to brands…We’re seeing it in the marketing folks lurking in Discord servers, we’re seeing it in Gen Z aping into meme coins, we’re seeing it in beer companies launching NFTs and buying .eth addresses. B...

Chu and Fancy are part of the core team at Protein Community, these thoughts are their own and don't represent the views of the full Community. We'd like to say thank you to Other Internet and their article on Headless Brands, which was integral to our thinking.Something is happening to brands…We’re seeing it in the marketing folks lurking in Discord servers, we’re seeing it in Gen Z aping into meme coins, we’re seeing it in beer companies launching NFTs and buying .eth addresses. B...

The West’s WeChat (an all-in-one app that can do everything) will be a “Super DApp” consisting of one/few web3 apps/platforms integrating with a growing set of permissionless protocols, standards, and cloud solutions. Some worthy contenders have already emerged. Thanks to David Phelps, Jad Esber, Omid Malekan, and others for their thoughts and revisions.One App to Rule Them AllWeChat is considered a “super-app”. It can do almost everything other apps do, replacing the need for dozens of weste...

The West’s WeChat (an all-in-one app that can do everything) will be a “Super DApp” consisting of one/few web3 apps/platforms integrating with a growing set of permissionless protocols, standards, and cloud solutions. Some worthy contenders have already emerged. Thanks to David Phelps, Jad Esber, Omid Malekan, and others for their thoughts and revisions.One App to Rule Them AllWeChat is considered a “super-app”. It can do almost everything other apps do, replacing the need for dozens of weste...

👋 Update: Imagine... a new form of work. A new form of collaboration. A new form of community. At Forefront, we are building this future, together. Season 2 Contributor Applications are now open. Join us, and experience the Vibez Infinity Flow. *** Forefront Season Two has finally arrived. If we’ve learned one thing over the last year, it’s that DAOs are hard. But working through those challenges are exactly what creates a community worth fighting for. There has been a recent shift in the ec...

👋 Update: Imagine... a new form of work. A new form of collaboration. A new form of community. At Forefront, we are building this future, together. Season 2 Contributor Applications are now open. Join us, and experience the Vibez Infinity Flow. *** Forefront Season Two has finally arrived. If we’ve learned one thing over the last year, it’s that DAOs are hard. But working through those challenges are exactly what creates a community worth fighting for. There has been a recent shift in the ec...

TLDR; The FF Writers Guild will release a new section of this Digital Economy Canon each other week, available on the Forefront Website. This project is an ongoing experiment in community curation, culminating in the FF Awards.Last week, we released the first section of the Forefront Digital Economy highlighting the best podcasts in the Web3 space, and we've been overwhelmed by the positive feedback we received! The 10 nominees of the first race accumulated a total of 100,654 votes, with...

TLDR; The FF Writers Guild will release a new section of this Digital Economy Canon each other week, available on the Forefront Website. This project is an ongoing experiment in community curation, culminating in the FF Awards.Last week, we released the first section of the Forefront Digital Economy highlighting the best podcasts in the Web3 space, and we've been overwhelmed by the positive feedback we received! The 10 nominees of the first race accumulated a total of 100,654 votes, with...

TLDR; The FF Writers Guild will release a new section of this Digital Economy Canon each other week, available on the Forefront Website. This project is an ongoing experiment in community curation, culminating in the FF Awards.Last week, we announced the first section of Forefront Digital Economy highlighting the best podcasts in the Web3 space, and we've been overwhelmed by the positive feedback we received! The 10 nominees of the first race accumulated a total of 100,654 votes, with th...

TLDR; The FF Writers Guild will release a new section of this Digital Economy Canon each other week, available on the Forefront Website. This project is an ongoing experiment in community curation, culminating in the FF Awards.Last week, we announced the first section of Forefront Digital Economy highlighting the best podcasts in the Web3 space, and we've been overwhelmed by the positive feedback we received! The 10 nominees of the first race accumulated a total of 100,654 votes, with th...

TLDR; The FF Writers Guild will release a new section of this Digital Economy Canon each other week, available on the Forefront Website. This project is an ongoing experiment in community curation, culminating in the FF Awards.What’s the Digital Economy Canon?It’s no secret that new digital communities are forming and innovating at an unprecedented pace. In 2021, Social Tokens alone grew over 500% from January to June. Dozens of new tools for DAOs emerged - and like Legos, have been used to s...

TLDR; The FF Writers Guild will release a new section of this Digital Economy Canon each other week, available on the Forefront Website. This project is an ongoing experiment in community curation, culminating in the FF Awards.What’s the Digital Economy Canon?It’s no secret that new digital communities are forming and innovating at an unprecedented pace. In 2021, Social Tokens alone grew over 500% from January to June. Dozens of new tools for DAOs emerged - and like Legos, have been used to s...

TLDR; The FF Writers Guild will release a new section of this Digital Economy Canon each other week, available on the Forefront Website. This project is an ongoing experiment in community curation, culminating in the FF Awards.Last week, for the second section of Forefront Digital Economy highlighting the most thriving Newsletters in the Web3 space, the ten nominees of the race accumulated a total of 37,235 votes, confirming our assumptions that there's a real craze around collaborative ...

TLDR; The FF Writers Guild will release a new section of this Digital Economy Canon each other week, available on the Forefront Website. This project is an ongoing experiment in community curation, culminating in the FF Awards.Last week, for the second section of Forefront Digital Economy highlighting the most thriving Newsletters in the Web3 space, the ten nominees of the race accumulated a total of 37,235 votes, confirming our assumptions that there's a real craze around collaborative ...

So far, there are no comprehensive outlets that have truly covered the depth and breadth of the social token space. That’s where Project St. Canon comes in: over the past ten weeks, our writer’s guild has put together a canonical list of resources spanning various topics, themes, and trends pertaining to digitally native token communities. We wanted to create this canonical report, but we also wanted to run a new kind of experiment in social curation: once we aligned on weekly sections, we pu...

So far, there are no comprehensive outlets that have truly covered the depth and breadth of the social token space. That’s where Project St. Canon comes in: over the past ten weeks, our writer’s guild has put together a canonical list of resources spanning various topics, themes, and trends pertaining to digitally native token communities. We wanted to create this canonical report, but we also wanted to run a new kind of experiment in social curation: once we aligned on weekly sections, we pu...

By: Eliot Couvat The more the lines are blurred between our digital and physical lives, the more our digital identities will become more complex. Our work is already being done almost exclusively online, having internet friends has become commonplace, and we're slowly tending toward a moment where our digital life will become just as consequential as our physical life. Everyone will eventually have to play the Great Online Game, and the questions around digital identities will become (if...

By: Eliot Couvat The more the lines are blurred between our digital and physical lives, the more our digital identities will become more complex. Our work is already being done almost exclusively online, having internet friends has become commonplace, and we're slowly tending toward a moment where our digital life will become just as consequential as our physical life. Everyone will eventually have to play the Great Online Game, and the questions around digital identities will become (if...

It’s no secret that new digital communities are forming and innovating at an unprecedented pace. In 2021, Social Tokens alone grew over 500% from January to June. Dozens of new tools for DAOs emerged - and like Legos, have been used to stimulate the creation of hundreds of new digital-native communities. There is no article or book so far that can cover the depth and breadth of the Social Token space. However, the Forefront Writer’s Guild has curated a list of canonical resources related to d...

It’s no secret that new digital communities are forming and innovating at an unprecedented pace. In 2021, Social Tokens alone grew over 500% from January to June. Dozens of new tools for DAOs emerged - and like Legos, have been used to stimulate the creation of hundreds of new digital-native communities. There is no article or book so far that can cover the depth and breadth of the Social Token space. However, the Forefront Writer’s Guild has curated a list of canonical resources related to d...

By: Thomas Scaria and Natasha Khimji As web3 has entered the mainstream consciousness, an entirely new category has emerged: web3 social. Humans are tribal creatures. The desire to connect with each other and belong to communities is in our DNA. Web3 social fills the same human void as web2 social – connection. So what exactly is web3 social? It’s a new open model for social that is user-centric, not platform-centric. In web3 social, users own their identity, data, and the content they create...

By: Thomas Scaria and Natasha Khimji As web3 has entered the mainstream consciousness, an entirely new category has emerged: web3 social. Humans are tribal creatures. The desire to connect with each other and belong to communities is in our DNA. Web3 social fills the same human void as web2 social – connection. So what exactly is web3 social? It’s a new open model for social that is user-centric, not platform-centric. In web3 social, users own their identity, data, and the content they create...