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Perpetual futures were crypto's sneaky innovation: elegant trading without manual rollovers
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Yesterday’s CS Fair in NYC was an incredible opportunity to show, not tell, the power of no-code building with AI! Thanks to @brenner.eth, @web3pm, @j4ck.eth, @0xlacroix, @saadiq, @thelibrarian, @mattcynamon, @fredwilson.eth and many more for all of your contributions! As @0xlacroix put it, “Gen Alpha is ready to vibe code.” 👏 https://hardmodefirst.xyz/the-cs-fair-2025-a-bias-to-building
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Time to rethink how we govern DAOs and protocols. Ancient Athens might have figured this out 2,500 years ago - now crypto can bring it into the digital age.
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Hybrid models could work too! Randomly selected groups could develop proposals that then go to wider community votes - combining the best of both worlds.
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The beauty of sortition: broader representation compared to traditional voting systems where small groups of active participants often dominate governance.
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Token slashing could provide the stick to match the carrot. Don't participate after being selected? Face penalties through token slashing mechanisms.
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Participation can be incentivized through token staking requirements. Got selected? You need to have skin in the game to participate in governance decisions.
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It solves the delegation problems that many major projects have faced. Instead of power concentrating among a few whales, random selection ensures diverse decision-makers.
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We've reflexively copied traditional democratic voting into token governance. But that might have been a big mistake. A better option may be Sortition. 🧵...
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Sortition in crypto governance would randomly select token holders to make decisions or propose solutions, just like ancient Athenian democracy.
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The best tokens are demand side tokens
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Maybe. Maybe Not. https://www.hume.ai/research
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It's magical thinking to believe we have something in our brains that AI can't replicate
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We've told ourselves stories that didn't revolve around jobs for thousands of years. We can go back to any story want.
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Right now, LLMs are trained on the Internet, but they are not trained on my inbox or history or my relationships. Those are the things that give humans the advantage to do things that LLMs can't do right now.
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Getting off the ground is really cheap now. That's super clear to everyone. But a lot of startups that have scaled successfully in the last two years have felt like they need to out-raise and out-hire the people who are also going to move fast.
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As a companion to trying to understand something new and complicated, a chatbot is remarkably effective. If you're trying to learn anything hard, doing it without this at your fingertips is essentially wasting time.
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Medical expertise already lives in all our pockets. We have better diagnostics that you can use at home. We're just going to see more movement toward that direction. The operating room is probably the last thing to be disrupted—the robot surgeon that you just have in the closet to take out when something breaks seems a little far off. But that's the trend we're investing in.
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Its out belief that the answer is not to marginally change the allocation of the resource through politics. It's how do we coordinate with new technology to make the resource itself expand.
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There are these inefficient twentieth century institutions that we built in response to particular circumstances. The electrical grid is one example - a peculiar public-private arrangement that regularly fails yet remains our primary solution. Another is our healthcare system with its convoluted mixture of state and private insurance tied to employment, where no stakeholder has proper incentives for optimal functioning. An abundance of localized energy generation will obviate our dependence the grid, just as an abundance of self-directed care will make our centralized healthcare institutions obsolete. These seemingly separate issues are fundamentally connected. The solution isn't marginally reallocating existing resources, but rather coordinating with new technologies to expand the resources themselves. Believing in a future of abundance.
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