lots of people asking this privately but no one asking publicly

why is everyone so angry we don’t have any crypto apps

and why did we abandon integrating or transferring existing apps to be onchain

why the obsession with net new apps

[i have my own answer but steelmanning is good thought experiment for us all]

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

because all of the infra works if there are an order of magnitude more apps than infra 

most people work in infra

*ducks*

so the infra people are mad that there aren’t more apps because infra only works with apps?

also like… why net new apps !!!! 

whats undesirable about having more starbucks rewards platforms onchain?

We worked on this problem set 6 years ago, it's so difficult to convince any web2 company to move anything to web3. Back then we had to do infra too (L2 did not exist so we wrote our own), created wallet integration and SDKs so it would be seamless experience for the end user but it was still an uphill battle - biggest question why would end consumer care it's on blockchain. Majority don't. Starbucks did an NFT stint w Polygon who paid them $4M to do it - that's the reality. Convincing to try is not enough, paying for the costs to try it is not sustainable. One day 🥹