Own a piece of Substack

What does it even mean to co-own a community? To make this concrete, suppose you're a YouTuber named Jimmy with 10,000 fans. Instead of asking fans to pay to subscribe to your YouTube channel (letting YouTube take 30% of your revenue in the process), you ask them to buy and hold $BEAST tokens.

Tokenized subscription could create an angel audience of other creators, investing in something very early and very risky with the dream of a potential upside but also just for the fun of it. We see this already with so much of what’s happening with Web3. There are pure speculators but that alone would be nowhere near enough to spin the wheel as fa... See more

Jarrod Dicker, Partner at TCG, comments, "What Web3 really does is it unlocks the possibility for creators to offer more. If we take newsletters as an example, the concept in Web3 becomes 'why subscribe when you can invest?' In the case of Mirror.xyz, you now have the opportunity to invest at the earliest stages of a publication in exchange for a t... See more

The ownership economy doesn’t always mean a literal distribution of tokens, stock options, or equity. Rather, it means that ownership — which may manifest in the form of novel economic rewards, platform governance, or new forms of social capital — can be a new keystone of user experiences, with plenty of design space to explore. - Jesse Walden