# The Vertex Thesis

By [LGHT](https://paragraph.com/@lght) · 2023-08-24

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This is what clicked for me.

![https://twitter.com/dg_goens](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/68a43a5d2ab18fd1611857b8a4d46e2fde80a32808408cacb0ec5965d9727b7a.png)

https://twitter.com/dg\_goens

Onchain Relevancies
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[Jack Butcher](https://twitter.com/jackbutcher) has tons of published insight on the natural law of compounding. In the digital realm it’s harder to pin down, but the externalities are less inhibited.

Now we have a substrate by which _hyperlocal activities_ can be noted, verified, and upgraded perpetually. Blockchains allow personal, and highly anecdotal experiences, to **become** much more than ever before.

### Hyperlocal Fun

Obsessing over ordinance principles has left me with _fun as the fundamental_.

![onchain summer fun](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/fc2834f059887574e7964db83ddf651c87449dd0a47b9370a82766b368f7f8c4.png)

onchain summer fun

Friend tech, Basepaint, Storybase, and Based Management are all uniquely _fun_.

*   a social liquidity game
    
*   an evolving mural art ‘dao’
    
*   onchain forum/message board
    
*   L2 headless brand experiment
    

Who they attract points at what Dee articulated as _hyperlocal_. Broadly speaking, they exist within the same neighborhood:

1.  EVM
    
2.  Base Chain L2
    
3.  Crypto Twitter
    
4.  NFT marketplaces
    

Within each individual project we see their _hyperlocalities_.

**Friend Tech**

*   Crypto Degens
    

**Basepaint**

*   Pixel Artists
    

**Storybase**

*   Crypto Writers
    

**Based Management**

*   Crypto Consumers
    

### Global Maximum Potential

Imagine these localities as _vertices_ existing in an expansive temporal-spectrum. An increase in interactiveness engages neighboring vertices, eventually resulting in uniquely animated cognitive-surface-area → leading to tangible market influence.

![animated hyperlocalities](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/d4bbc50e296a48e9f113a496f50c6d96766fcc17597049037d9a6040123ba13a.gif)

animated hyperlocalities

Part of the subtext has been covered in my [Hypercultures](https://lght.mirror.xyz/pTG74wlS43LGBzP7ZYCBTGEcWJ9uZdC3lUa2JJUXtQA) and [Onchain Summer](https://lght.mirror.xyz/4rGu6yh4U1T4bAar2eXTX-Jf2_Xuos1ROcQxZ1Yvl_o) essays. The tldr being:

*   onchain context leads to onchain culture
    
*   memetic proliferation happens at the chain level
    
*   we have turned a corner in terms of tech usability
    
    *   this leads to divergent-expansion
        

Cryptography is relevant due to its _timeless_ technical nature. To mint something is to ensure, to the best of our current capacity, that it endures. This allows digital assets to capture value over longer time horizons.

To me, this is what “global maximum potential” signifies. The ability to turn hyperlocal concepts, content, and context, into endless possibilities.

Important to note this does not guarantee top 1% performance of those interests, activities, etc. It guarantees **opportunity to reach top 1% performance**.

### ExperiMint

H/t [@uncledavo](https://twitter.com/uncledavo) for the term.

On a recent ForeFront chat we came to the understanding that our industry is still within the first percent of growth. This means more experiments are needed.

With all of this texture added in, the vertex thesis boils down to:

1.  be courageous onchain
    
2.  plant hyperlocal vertices in the collective mind-space
    
3.  nurture them toward their global maximum potential

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*Originally published on [LGHT](https://paragraph.com/@lght/the-vertex-thesis)*