Farcaster is a fine demonstration in why you don't need strict global consensus and public blockchains for most things, but at the same time, they can prove valuable for 1 or 2 things

I hope to see more hybrid applications that are significantly better by minimizing blockchain usage only to strict global consensus

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Stateless constructions like ZK coprocessors (not rollups) where verifiability or auditability is important, but consensus not

Or, you need consensus but with massive compute demand for 10,000+ CPU cores, e.g. multiplayer onchain games (see: the EVE Online onchain game)

Whether they find PMF remains to be seen

maybe we won't need those L3s after all then eh 😉

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Good question! Maybe something related to identity? Could be stuff like specific elements of onchain games

Do you know any non-financial app that would make sense to build on a validium and not on CRDTs?

(i.e. do you think validium makes sense for a non-financial app?)

indeed, most applications on the internet are abundance-centric rather than scarcity-centric!

https://multicoin.capital/2022/02/16/the-composable-web3-data-network/

Even worse, applications can be explicitly *harmed* by trying to shoehorn everything into strict global consensus

E.g. in DeFi, using a blockchain cedes privacy + ordering, resulting in MEV

Excited for hybrid DEXes (e.g. Renegade - p2p mpc trading network that merely settles to blockchains in zero knowledge)

what kind of applications are suitable for hybrid structure in the long run?