Crypto affordances that end users can feel, the dependency graph:

[3] Ownership. What you buy / build can never be taken away from you && can move freely between ecosystems. Then users can really feel compounding w/ network effects.

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founder @seismic // product-focused cryptography // rookie years @ stanford, google

Given these dependencies, builders today should solely focus efforts on product offerings centered around #1 right? Or else you fight the uphill battle of timing? Kinda. Some case studies below

[1] Value Transfer. 

Pretty much the only products that have ever experienced PMF in our space: [Circle, OpenSea, FriendTech, ...]. 

Memecoins here too.

Timing advantage here is abundantly clear. Market pulled products off their shelves during the respective booms.

[2] Composability + Extensibility. Some blips of success here in defi. 

Liquidity wars with Curve. Collateral swaps w/ Aave flashloans. 

Both cases did well with #1 prior to #2 kicking in.

No sustained wins yet. Likely need 30+ dapps to hit with #1 first.

[3] Ownership. The only real player here is this app.

Even they faced the uphill battle w/ front-running good timing.

Team pulled off the insane feat of bootstrapping w/ crypto community / ethos alone in the first few years. Technically not a blockchain affordance.

Then blew up w/ Frames, a stellar overall product play. Also not a blockchain affordance.

I think you should only bet your company on this if you're @dwr.eth tier.

The plan for @seismic is literally to be singularly focused on #1, then #2, then #3. 

We want to help drive every node in the dependency graph, then take it to the house w/ the whole space.

[2] Composability + Extensibility. OS dev is supercharged (@dangerwillrobin's phrase). Dev power of the world beats dev power of any subset. Yields better product experiences.

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[1] Value Transfer. Easy to send / receive assets with value.