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Michael
@opmichael
What Ethereum conference has the most apps? Why are we not building more apps? We already have sub-cent transactions, why do we need to focus on infra right now? I feel like Iām slowly going insane
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
In apps, 80%+ of the difficulty is in figuring out which apps actually make sense to build. I think this is why a generalized pitch of "we need apps" gets applause from pragmatist types but ultimately leads to no action - if our vision for the world is "WE WANT STUFF HAPPENING ON OUR CHAIN!", that's very uninspiring. Meanwhile, specific categories of apps are starting to do well! Lots of progress in zk identity and zk social, all kinds of interesting stuff in info finance. I think if we want more apps, a more definite-optimist approach where we talk about specific types of apps and what kind of world they will lead to will be much more effective.
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Ben
@benzy
I kind of agree, but we should acknowledge that user activity is a strong measure of success, maybe it should be the strongest, stronger than TVL or Volume at least in nominal terms. I am obviously also very interested in eth increasing in its dollar value, but you can't claim you believe in the mission without getting all the end users on chain. That does not seem to be happening right now within the ecosystem.
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Ben
@benzy
And to your point of "we need apps" doesn't inspire people to build apps. I think if you set up the right incentives, it will.
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