Costly signals of skill

-Clear applications for contribution and affiliation data. Valuable applications of this data create the incentives for bringing more of it on-chain. This is one of the primary reasons we launched Backdrop, but there will be many different platforms all building on top of this same data.

We are at the point where we need the initial valuable apps to pull the data out and do the work of structuring it for many more products to be built on top. After all, the platforms that own this data aren’t hoarding it in private vaults - that was web2 vibes.

What we need is more frequent and more granular data. We can’t evaluate a slugger after three at bats - we need three hundred. This is the one liner point of this article. People will get endorsed through actions, not words, because web3 data is granular, open, and trustworthy.

-If you hire me for a project, and then you hire me for two other projects in the future, you probably believed that first and second project to be successful.

How might we make the system we imagined above more of a reality? What building blocks do we still need?

Put another way, we have to resist this skeuomorphic temptation to think that everything is better on the blockchain. Some things, when put on blockchains, just become the same as they were before, but on a blockchain

the next iteration of the internet (or web3) will disentangle reputation from affiliation via more frequent and more granular endorsements.

-If we work together for many hours over a significant period of time, you probably feel I’m worthy of your time.

-If you fund me multiple times, you clearly believe I have done and will do good things with that funding.