I was thinking, you don't really need blockchains for composability/interoperability, you just need open APIs

permissionless composability, blockchains do provide

but if there were theoretically some non-blockchain tech that just exposed open data, and the end-result product that takes advantage of this data is the same, then the blockchain part would not be necessary for the end product

Twitter had open APIs at one point.  So did Reddit and Facebook.

I think the strength of distributed infrastructure/API is that the API provider can’t put the genie back in the bottle.  This is something that is achieved best with a distributed system like blockchain.

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Yeah blockchains provide the unruggability guarantee

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Ah interesting. But quil token is on ETH right? So still needs a blockchain in some capacity?

Believe this is the premise of Quil though that it doesn’t need to be a blockchain, but it does need some form factor to be unruggable