In the previous essays we introduced the concept of onchain hypercultures: https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/pTG74wlS43LGBzP7ZYCBTGEcWJ9uZdC3lUa2JJUXtQA and examined their characteristics in the market. https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/Av_4Vx1U9jDYgDzdrfWQD3FKuXUbMpQ9h5n-KlFz3KQ Now, we’ll speculate on plausible adoption funnels for global integration - the only way onchain hypercultures will endure.EarlyThere are about 300k daily active users on Ethereum Mainnet (data from Token Terminal). In terms of ...

In the previous essays we introduced the concept of onchain hypercultures: https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/pTG74wlS43LGBzP7ZYCBTGEcWJ9uZdC3lUa2JJUXtQA and examined their characteristics in the market. https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/Av_4Vx1U9jDYgDzdrfWQD3FKuXUbMpQ9h5n-KlFz3KQ Now, we’ll speculate on plausible adoption funnels for global integration - the only way onchain hypercultures will endure.EarlyThere are about 300k daily active users on Ethereum Mainnet (data from Token Terminal). In terms of ...

There are two parts to The Obvious Series:Simple explanations for newer entrantsAbstract wtf are we doing here reflectionsWalletsA real life item bag for your own MMORPG experience on the internet.The SimpleA crypto wallet is much more than its traditional namesake. It is better to think of it as a repository or digital backpack. It serves as:your bank accounthard drive for minted & collected filesportfolio if you decide to mint your workstorefront as a creator, author, podcaster, musician, e...

There are two parts to The Obvious Series:Simple explanations for newer entrantsAbstract wtf are we doing here reflectionsWalletsA real life item bag for your own MMORPG experience on the internet.The SimpleA crypto wallet is much more than its traditional namesake. It is better to think of it as a repository or digital backpack. It serves as:your bank accounthard drive for minted & collected filesportfolio if you decide to mint your workstorefront as a creator, author, podcaster, musician, e...

This won’t be a series like A Non-Technical & Highly Speculative Look at Memes, but we are continuing from a previous essay. https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/F593LtANSK0J2eqOHesalji-mg7H2tozYS4eHF66MB0 This is where we ended last time.differentNow we’ll run a thought experiment on how we would design an L2 on Ethereum, specifically with the onchain creative community in mind.Designer FabricsFirst off, we need some contextual fabrics to play with. Let’s quickly examine one of my creative fascinatio...

This won’t be a series like A Non-Technical & Highly Speculative Look at Memes, but we are continuing from a previous essay. https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/F593LtANSK0J2eqOHesalji-mg7H2tozYS4eHF66MB0 This is where we ended last time.differentNow we’ll run a thought experiment on how we would design an L2 on Ethereum, specifically with the onchain creative community in mind.Designer FabricsFirst off, we need some contextual fabrics to play with. Let’s quickly examine one of my creative fascinatio...

Onchain is likely the next iteration of the internet. And if so, it’s where we have a legitimate chance of turning our cultural diversities into a more fruitful world. We are discussing an attempt at a renaissance unlike any feat in human history.Cultural UpdatesIn an abstract sense, the internet is a representation of the human race. Or at the very least, the human mind. Blockchains present a new wrinkle to this ever-changing web of ours. The provenance functionality allow us to put mile mar...

Onchain is likely the next iteration of the internet. And if so, it’s where we have a legitimate chance of turning our cultural diversities into a more fruitful world. We are discussing an attempt at a renaissance unlike any feat in human history.Cultural UpdatesIn an abstract sense, the internet is a representation of the human race. Or at the very least, the human mind. Blockchains present a new wrinkle to this ever-changing web of ours. The provenance functionality allow us to put mile mar...

There are two parts to The Obvious Series:Simple explanations for newer entrantsAbstract wtf are we doing here reflectionsMintingA dual-function term; minting is onchain ‘uploading’ and ‘downloading’.The SimpleA creator of some media, art, writing, etc mints their creation onto the blockchain. The next layer of understanding would be where exactly that data is stored, and what the minted record points to. But for this context, minting is about putting something on the blockchain. A collector ...

There are two parts to The Obvious Series:Simple explanations for newer entrantsAbstract wtf are we doing here reflectionsMintingA dual-function term; minting is onchain ‘uploading’ and ‘downloading’.The SimpleA creator of some media, art, writing, etc mints their creation onto the blockchain. The next layer of understanding would be where exactly that data is stored, and what the minted record points to. But for this context, minting is about putting something on the blockchain. A collector ...

First thing I’d want to figure out is the tech. Next, I’d be interested in the creators that understand their memes, and are open to scaling network effects around them. I wrote an essay diving into the ‘creator’ side of onchain culture earlier this week. https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/vWmKcZ4E2ja6PkgNq6zBCD7uFfPwh9pfor5GS4pfQDE Now I’m trying to think through the ‘collector’ side of the equation.Onchain - CultureIf the creator supplies the memetic material by which a culture incubates itself ar...

First thing I’d want to figure out is the tech. Next, I’d be interested in the creators that understand their memes, and are open to scaling network effects around them. I wrote an essay diving into the ‘creator’ side of onchain culture earlier this week. https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/vWmKcZ4E2ja6PkgNq6zBCD7uFfPwh9pfor5GS4pfQDE Now I’m trying to think through the ‘collector’ side of the equation.Onchain - CultureIf the creator supplies the memetic material by which a culture incubates itself ar...

Life is positive sum whether you believe it or not.a 'valuable cycle'Thus, the next logical step as far as I can tell, is how to get such a truth to manifest beyond the friction of a determi-nihilist stratafigures (term coined here). I want to figure out how we radically accelerate discoverability in the onchain space. Selfishly for myself of course, but- wwwwwww @notbylght a rising [discoverability mechanism] lifts all [onchain creative economies] 2 12:39 PM • May 23, 2023 Anecdote...

Life is positive sum whether you believe it or not.a 'valuable cycle'Thus, the next logical step as far as I can tell, is how to get such a truth to manifest beyond the friction of a determi-nihilist stratafigures (term coined here). I want to figure out how we radically accelerate discoverability in the onchain space. Selfishly for myself of course, but- wwwwwww @notbylght a rising [discoverability mechanism] lifts all [onchain creative economies] 2 12:39 PM • May 23, 2023 Anecdote...

There are limitless potential-avenues to ‘success’. In the context of this essay let’s agree that meme approximates something likeprofessionally capable of engaging in healthy market relationships, with participants most resonant to the creator’s inherent memes.This provides a width of contextual variety while capturing a coherent direction to work through this essay. A few weeks ago I saw a great question.the big threeWhat?Indeed. What? What are we doing here? Not necessarily in the existent...

There are limitless potential-avenues to ‘success’. In the context of this essay let’s agree that meme approximates something likeprofessionally capable of engaging in healthy market relationships, with participants most resonant to the creator’s inherent memes.This provides a width of contextual variety while capturing a coherent direction to work through this essay. A few weeks ago I saw a great question.the big threeWhat?Indeed. What? What are we doing here? Not necessarily in the existent...

There are two parts to The Obvious Series:Simple explanations for newer entrantsAbstract wtf are we doing here reflectionsDecentralized Exchanges (DEXs)A marketplace for crypto currencies and financial opportunities.The SimpleDecentralized exchanges, commonly referred to as DEXs, are the crypto equivalent of Wall Street. Instead of a couple blocks in New York gate-kept by credentialism, they are globally accessible, peer to peer marketplaces for trading, lending, and developing. Open 24 hours...

There are two parts to The Obvious Series:Simple explanations for newer entrantsAbstract wtf are we doing here reflectionsDecentralized Exchanges (DEXs)A marketplace for crypto currencies and financial opportunities.The SimpleDecentralized exchanges, commonly referred to as DEXs, are the crypto equivalent of Wall Street. Instead of a couple blocks in New York gate-kept by credentialism, they are globally accessible, peer to peer marketplaces for trading, lending, and developing. Open 24 hours...

We arrive at the end of this essay series, having covered three dimensions thus far. The basis for creating improved cultural centers with the advent of blockchains: https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/pTG74wlS43LGBzP7ZYCBTGEcWJ9uZdC3lUa2JJUXtQA An analysis of the three prominent proofs of concept in the space (2023): https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/Av_4Vx1U9jDYgDzdrfWQD3FKuXUbMpQ9h5n-KlFz3KQ Speculation on the foundational mechanics needed for global adoption of this concept: https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth...

We arrive at the end of this essay series, having covered three dimensions thus far. The basis for creating improved cultural centers with the advent of blockchains: https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/pTG74wlS43LGBzP7ZYCBTGEcWJ9uZdC3lUa2JJUXtQA An analysis of the three prominent proofs of concept in the space (2023): https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/Av_4Vx1U9jDYgDzdrfWQD3FKuXUbMpQ9h5n-KlFz3KQ Speculation on the foundational mechanics needed for global adoption of this concept: https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth...

In the previous essay we outlined what an onchain hyperculture is and the phase, context-fermentation, most of us are currently in. An inexhaustible incubator for creative/cultural innovation, in which each creative endeavor minted has an opportunity to birth a hyperculture (OH). https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/pTG74wlS43LGBzP7ZYCBTGEcWJ9uZdC3lUa2JJUXtQA Now we look at three different hypercultures in the space - Nouns, Zora, Opepen.Memetic IconThe simplest way to think of memetic icons are as co...

In the previous essay we outlined what an onchain hyperculture is and the phase, context-fermentation, most of us are currently in. An inexhaustible incubator for creative/cultural innovation, in which each creative endeavor minted has an opportunity to birth a hyperculture (OH). https://mirror.xyz/lght.eth/pTG74wlS43LGBzP7ZYCBTGEcWJ9uZdC3lUa2JJUXtQA Now we look at three different hypercultures in the space - Nouns, Zora, Opepen.Memetic IconThe simplest way to think of memetic icons are as co...

Rick Rubin, in his recent book, said that an artist often struggles with their internal ‘weighing’ mechanism. Some pieces are precious to a creator; others are priceless. And some… well they just needed to get out. The market weighs pieces differently than the artist though. This is especially true for the creator that has not reached escape velocity. However, sometimes there are pieces that the artist and appreciators both perk ears for.BlocksThe 16th Blocks piece made in the span of three d...

Rick Rubin, in his recent book, said that an artist often struggles with their internal ‘weighing’ mechanism. Some pieces are precious to a creator; others are priceless. And some… well they just needed to get out. The market weighs pieces differently than the artist though. This is especially true for the creator that has not reached escape velocity. However, sometimes there are pieces that the artist and appreciators both perk ears for.BlocksThe 16th Blocks piece made in the span of three d...