What else could memecoins be?

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html

A key motivation for investigating & writing about blockchain games was as a potential avenue to channel degeneracy in a less harmful 

Alas, obviously, it's not about fun or accomplishment - it's pure greed, and greed will follow the most degenerate and predatory path

A key motivation for investigating & writing about blockchain games was as a potential avenue to channel degeneracy in a less harmful 

Alas, obviously, it's not about fun or accomplishment - it's pure greed, and greed will follow the most degenerate and predatory path 

https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0x12be33f8

The answer is to build or fund what you want to see

Greed isn't good, but it doesn't follow the most degenerate path. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." The problem in crypto is that no one "expects their dinner" from us. We can create that expectation.

How much of crypto's current greed do you think is based on regulatory uncertainty preventing "mainstream" app builders? Aka the people who would want to make things beyond ponzis and with real use.