Collaboration, contracts, and the tyranny of platforms

I believe that a cooperatively owned platform which empowers groups by providing them with the above tools, according to their ‘status’ is the holy grail for delivering decentralized collaboration at scale.

Crypto technologies help share ownership with stakeholders: - Web3 communities can bring more value back to their creators when producing wearables- Forkable concepts and tools can be validated and iterated on by community creators.- Computer-aided designs can be registered on-chain as vectors and then used to produce anything from printed goods to... See more

Within financial services, these private blockchains are largely solutions by incumbents in a fight to remain incumbents. While there is merit to many of these solutions, some claim the greatest revolution has been getting large and secretive entities to work together, sharing information and best practices, which will ultimately lower the cost of

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The Web2 allowed us to enjoy peer-to-peer (P2P) interactions on a global scale, but always with a middleman: a platform acting as a trusted intermediary between two people who do not know or trust each other. While these Internet platforms have done a fantastic job of creating a P2P economy, they also dictate all the rules and they control the data... See more