Composability is Innovation - a16z crypto

Composable apps are far more likely to be complementary - delivering new services and interfaces to fill an unfilled niche— and far less likely to try to outcompete incumbents on a brand new (heavy, expensive) proprietary stack.

Aggregators are incentivized to limit composability. By contrast, the value of a web3 token may actually increase when composed with other systems. The money flowing through web3 is mediated by open source smart contracts, rather than closed source software owned by corporations. This feels completely asymmetric. I cannot imagine a Facebook or Goog... See more

Most critically, Dune is community-driven, composable and extensible, just like crypto. Projects can create their own project pages via a simple pull request. Anyone can create, reuse and remix queries, charts and dashboards. Crypto is moving faster every day, and the only way to keep up with it all is to leverage crypto’s core primitives: communit... See more

All of this is possible because of the easy composability of smart contracts. Neither Foundation nor Reddit needs to go out of their way to build this functionality themselves. The open, user-controlled nature of blockchain computing allows any developer to plug into these ecosystems and offer their users financial services. The result could be a r... See more