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As an IRL builder working to integrate crypto rails into an existing business I think @jessepollak has half the picture re: "Bringing the World Onchain". However, understanding and moving on the second half is crucial to success.
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1. The half that think @jessepollak has right now... Crypto's super power lies in how efficient it is at translating qualitative value into quantitative value. In college, I wrote a 60pg thesis on "qualitative vs. quantitative dialectics" so I truly appreciate this perspective.
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2. I see this manifesting in the push toward content coins. It makes sense. Content coins are a pretty interesting experiment in the qualitative -> quantitative value flow. But, I'd argue they're not wildly more efficient than previous crypto experiments in this arena (NFTs, Memecoins, etc), nor do they have any novel edge in creating sustained success.
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3. These onchain experiments in creating qualitative to quantitative value discovery/capture are powerful primitives, but they're, in someways, a solution in search of a problem. The internet (even w/o crypto) has been pretty decent at creating revenue streams for dedicated, talented creators. Onchain solutions can optimize this, but they aren't unlocking anything new, just creating a more efficient path to an already achievable goal.
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4. There is a whole 'nother qualitative -> quantitative value problem that crypto (and particularly /base) is well equipped to solve. The @base team brushed up against this last year, but faced significant headwinds and maybe decided to re-allocate resources before getting to the root of the problem/opportunity.
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5. Before the new Zora launch, the "bring the world onchain" mission was focused on merchant payments. I know this well as I own a company which launched USDC on Base payments as part of onchain summer. The roll out was ambitious and I applaud the team for taking on such a massive endeavor. But it was less than optimal
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6. That's ok though. Optimal solutions for difficult problems are rarely (if ever) found in the first iteration. What often is found, however, are new problems. Sometimes those are technical problems (and we found plenty of those) but more interesting are the systemic problems, as they tend to reveal opportunity.
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7. I think this is where the @Base team missed re: the push for merchant payments. Which is interesting, bc the systemic problem/opportunity is the exact same one currently being pursued under the "bring the world onchain" banner... the qualitative -> quantitative value flow.
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8. I think the base team (and myself, at the time) saw onchain merchant payments as the solution to a problem. They really aren't. Interchange fees are a problem, but they don't really cause pain. Merchants are incentivized to swallow them (due to leaning into network effects) and customers don't know they exist.
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9. What is a problem though is the qualitative -> quantitative value dilemma for community based small businesses. Onchain payments are not the solution to this, instead they are massive, wide-open doorway to the solution, a perfect trojan horse.
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10. [TIL that you can only publish a 10 cast thread. lol. so I'll add the others as I go.] So this begs the question of what is the qualitative -> quantitative value issue that stablecoin payments can act as a trojan horse to deliver the solution?
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