Does Real Identity Matter for Networks?

What’s the role of a social network in a user-centric web3 world? No longer platform-centric venues, social networks become portals into a metaverse, full of opportunity. Users own the value they create and carry the credibility they accrue. Social Investing 2.0 promotes meaningful connections that lead to platform agnostic, liquid collaboration be... See more

Right now, and for the foreseeable future, follower graphs on centralized social networks are a source of significant and enduring value. We see in every dimension of our society how efficiently that influence can be translated into financial, political and cultural gain. So to ask our question another way: Will there be a time when most users’ on-... See more

For a network, one way to make for a good newcomer experience is to have a “ranked” experience where they are exposed to or interact with a subset of the entire graph. For example, a sub-reddit instead of everyone competing with everyone else on Reddit.