Cross-pollinating insights and best practices from web2 to crypto.

web2web3

The beauty of Farcaster is that we don’t need a global “public square” like the trad social media has been trying to do🤦‍♂️

Instead, we can create micro network effects with channels/clients that value depth over number of connections

We don’t need everything, everywhere, all at once

It’s too much

Web3 enables direction connection of micro networks, amplifying curated signals 

Web2 has so much noise, it’s difficult to find the signal in the first place

@Axelar-Network offers programmable interoperability to platform developers. Working with Microsoft Azure, this will enable cross-chain applications to leverage the best of Web2 and Web3, in ways that merge blockchain and artificial intelligence. This. is. BIG. 💎

@Axelar-Network offers programmable interoperability to platform developers. Working with Microsoft Azure, this will enable cross-chain applications to leverage the best of Web2 and Web3, in ways that merge blockchain and artificial intelligence. This. is. BIG. 💎 https://x.com/web3metic/status/1785517174586536260

Substack just announced token gating...I mean paywalled chat groups. 

Which other web2 platforms have you seen implement web3 ideas/tech?

Another consumer web3 pattern in web2. 

I keep saying that we’re going to see a lot more of this — there are many, many good ideas in web3; many just need bigger audiences.

$degen proves my point of the superiority of onchain over online. The ability to permissionlessly bootstrap an economy on top of an existing network in a way that feels native to the original platform, but without needing the original platform to do *anything*...

(there's a better way to express this but...)

web2 was built on user-generated content
web3 is being built on user-owned content

Fees are low enough for us to put every Snickett that will ever be made on Base.

The variety of actions you can take to express interest on Warpcast make it much more dynamic than Web2 social. I've organized signal strength IMO below.

Like: Low Signal
Recast: Low/Mid Signal
Quotecast: Mid Signal
Tipping: Mid/High Signal
Mint: High Signal

Spoke with some Web2 artists and curators yesterday around Zora free mints. The 0 gas cost to release and in tern, 0 crypto needed to start, protocol rewards and email integration (privy) is a huge unlock.

It just hasn't been fully unlocked yet, but it's an awareness issue vs. lack of interest.

BLOCKCHAIN PRIMER ⛓️💾

Time for refreshing your blockchain basics 🎓📖 

If you're in the crypto space, you should know this already, otherwise you can send it to your curious friend when they come to you with some of that mainstream FUD 😉

Follow the 🧵 1/20

Just discovered /web2web3 channel, I think this thread would be a perfect fit for it.

The content is from the lecture I held two years ago, but remarkably still relevant today.

Constructing the right graph that aligns onboarding w/ core product:

There's a tension in crypto social between bootstrapping initial interest and building an ongoing retentive social product, with founders often over-indexing on initial interest at the expense of retention. 1\

Really excited about builders who are using Farcaster to build their audiences and thus distribution for their own consumer applications. It's reminiscent of prior generations of founders who were able to exploit Twitter, Snap, and other social channels for growth and overcoming cold start (e.g. Gas, Clubhouse, etc).

Deep in it on Warpcast, but I still need to check back in on IG to stay engaged with the rest of the world.

Trying to figure out how to explain why moats and zero-sum thinking can be less relevant with web3 tools. In one sense, I see how certain kinds of moats (like patents and trademarks) have actually enabled innovation, since they incentivize people to work on things they couldn’t monetize well without that moat.