Heard a great talk yesterday about how much standards suck and I think I agree. Probably deserves a blog post but yeah, ERCs are dumb

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The real complaint was about composability. We prioritize it so much that we put compliance with standards on a pedestal, which prevents a lot of creativity in smart contract design. It comes down to choosing between widespread DEX support and true programmability of the asset.

to take the other side — what good is a new fancy programmable contract if its not composable with anything in the ecosystem?

Yeah that's the tradeoff. But if your own product is good enough you take over the market and have control over how things work. The talk used Blur as an example, they sort of made their own rules. I used to build algorithmic NFT trading bots and Blur was a MASSIVE pain becuase they weren't composable. But, it made for the best UX in the industry and won them the market.

No matter how dev friendly you are it won't bring users and having users is the most dev friendly thing you can do. Actually, as I'm writing this I'm realizing Farcaster/Warpcast is a perfect example of it