Costly signals of skill

Contributors must be able to port their body of work across organizations. In the current labor system, workers are made legible by the institutions they belong to. A worker's entire identity—their work, reputation, relationships—exists in the blackbox of an insular permission-controlled database. Once a worker leaves the organization, their identi... See more

-LinkedIn of NFTs: As we earn non-transferrable NFT “badges” through past actions like attending events, voting in DAOs, or providing liquidity in defi, social media platforms will develop based on the badges we accrue. We may see the LinkedIn of NFTs where our resumes are simply visual reputation display spaces that show past contributions. People... See more

Terms like “best effort” are both common in contracts and soft in nature. Who shall determine best effort? We will see the rise of “subjective oracles’’ to address this issue. People will be able to serve as judges via decentralized protocols, and will be paid for their input. They will build a reputation, which will impact their earnings and futur... See more