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In August I minted Based. “A token for the early adopters.” Open for the whole month, it closed just shy of 46.5K tokens minted and over 33k unique wallets. The most resonant piece in my young onchain discography by many multiples. Immediately I felt understanding emerge in regard to Jack Butcher’s words about his Checks and Opepen projects. Retrofitted for this post, he spoke of the impetus to experiment with each collection (initially just single-piece open editions) coming after seeing the...
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Co-authored by: Jihad Esmail & LGHT.ETH - Higher is an internet destination: a vibrant network of designers, developers, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and athletes, leveraging open technology to work ourselves into our dream lives. Higher is a network for your ambitions, for refining your worldview, and creating the world you want to see among people who get it. Every day, we push each other to achieve new heights, explore new ideas, and create new experiences. Members have created athleti...
LGHTConcept Markets: Using ERC20s for Concept Proofing & Higher Production Hit Rates
Pre-context for this paper:The commodification of content using ERC20sUsing content interfaces that have memecoin backends to create concept parityRough theory of the funnel:IdeaConceptCoin the metadataGather market cap, trading volume, holder distribution + social media metricsManufacture what has proven demandHere are two examples you can view market cap, volume, and holder distribution:Custom Atlas ATVs.Would be a premium ticket, ultra-high cost item. Requiring tens of millions in market c...
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LGHTBased: I Need a Dev!
In August I minted Based. “A token for the early adopters.” Open for the whole month, it closed just shy of 46.5K tokens minted and over 33k unique wallets. The most resonant piece in my young onchain discography by many multiples. Immediately I felt understanding emerge in regard to Jack Butcher’s words about his Checks and Opepen projects. Retrofitted for this post, he spoke of the impetus to experiment with each collection (initially just single-piece open editions) coming after seeing the...
LGHTThe Greenpaper: What it can mean for you to "join Higher"
Co-authored by: Jihad Esmail & LGHT.ETH - Higher is an internet destination: a vibrant network of designers, developers, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and athletes, leveraging open technology to work ourselves into our dream lives. Higher is a network for your ambitions, for refining your worldview, and creating the world you want to see among people who get it. Every day, we push each other to achieve new heights, explore new ideas, and create new experiences. Members have created athleti...
LGHTConcept Markets: Using ERC20s for Concept Proofing & Higher Production Hit Rates
Pre-context for this paper:The commodification of content using ERC20sUsing content interfaces that have memecoin backends to create concept parityRough theory of the funnel:IdeaConceptCoin the metadataGather market cap, trading volume, holder distribution + social media metricsManufacture what has proven demandHere are two examples you can view market cap, volume, and holder distribution:Custom Atlas ATVs.Would be a premium ticket, ultra-high cost item. Requiring tens of millions in market c...
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We begin a new series of inquisition around what Optimism has called The Superchain. The fundamental questions are:
What is it?
What are the value props?
Who is part of it?
Why/will more join?
Our more nuanced curiosities are about Base, Zora Network, and Optimism itself. Some questions I’m interested in are:
What do the individual collectives offer?
How do they comprise the superchain?
Where/what are the opportunities for those of us here?
If you’d like to read the essay for yourself:
https://optimism.mirror.xyz/2jk3D1Y8-hid8YOCUUa6yXmsyzNCYYyFJP0Nhaey9x0
The TLDR is:
OP stack (their codebase) is open source and viewed as a public good
the initial goal is to align L2 proliferation with an interoperable foundation
the manifestation of this goal is called the superchain
In the long term, the Superchain can blossom into a sprawling network which maximizes interoperability, shares decentralized protocols, and standardizes its core primitives–all while funding the public goods which enable it.
What we are dealing with is an attempt at the next-internet’s infrastructure. While it’s standard tradition for markets to incubate a zero-sum competitive framework, a superchain looks to not only establish, but find sustainable revenue models for a positive-sum competitive framework.
As stated in the above article, Base “will commit a portion of transaction fee revenue back to an Optimism Collective treasury.” In this vein, the success of a competing L2 is tied into the success of its competition.
What is curious at present, is how modular composability of divergent L2 ecosystems:
look
integrate
and foster adoption
We begin a new series of inquisition around what Optimism has called The Superchain. The fundamental questions are:
What is it?
What are the value props?
Who is part of it?
Why/will more join?
Our more nuanced curiosities are about Base, Zora Network, and Optimism itself. Some questions I’m interested in are:
What do the individual collectives offer?
How do they comprise the superchain?
Where/what are the opportunities for those of us here?
If you’d like to read the essay for yourself:
https://optimism.mirror.xyz/2jk3D1Y8-hid8YOCUUa6yXmsyzNCYYyFJP0Nhaey9x0
The TLDR is:
OP stack (their codebase) is open source and viewed as a public good
the initial goal is to align L2 proliferation with an interoperable foundation
the manifestation of this goal is called the superchain
In the long term, the Superchain can blossom into a sprawling network which maximizes interoperability, shares decentralized protocols, and standardizes its core primitives–all while funding the public goods which enable it.
What we are dealing with is an attempt at the next-internet’s infrastructure. While it’s standard tradition for markets to incubate a zero-sum competitive framework, a superchain looks to not only establish, but find sustainable revenue models for a positive-sum competitive framework.
As stated in the above article, Base “will commit a portion of transaction fee revenue back to an Optimism Collective treasury.” In this vein, the success of a competing L2 is tied into the success of its competition.
What is curious at present, is how modular composability of divergent L2 ecosystems:
look
integrate
and foster adoption
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