Company A builds a technology/product
Company B uses said technology/product to build their own product

Only in crypto is it non obvious whether B paid A or A paid B

Stay Curious // iixii // Lazer Technologies // Prev: CoinDesk, Roc Nation // based @basedevo

it's really common in blockchain infra - where the infra layer will pay devs and other companies to use their tech. it's crazy. imagine mongodb paying its users/customers to adopt the tech (and not the other way around)

bad for the space. good for those who create value for users/customers and, thus, stick out like sore thumbs

When you can create incentives (tokens) then it’s easier to do this

There’s obviously a lot of chains who have given incentives/tokens/funding to teams to build on their chain but i’m not as familiar with it happening with blockchain infra that’s not a chain or protocol itself

do you think this ambiguity is good or bad?