Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

Collaborative storytelling combines the lessons of Wikipedia with the power of credibly neutral, low take-rate blockchain networks that reward fans with ownership over their creations. The way this works most commonly in practice is that users receive tokens in proportion to their contribution to the narrative corpus. The resulting intellectual pro

the media world is addicted to sequels and reboots because it’s risky to market new intellectual property. Media companies need to spend tens of millions of dollars to promote new stories. It’s safer just to recycle proven material. But what if fans really could be owners, and media companies could harness their energy to help create and evangelize

Composability unlocks the best humanity has to offer.

YouTube gained popularity as a video widget to be embedded in blogs and other websites.

All technologies have the capacity to help or harm; blockchains are no different. The question is, how can we maximize the good while minimizing the bad?

Early delivery and ride-sharing apps hooked into Google Maps.

While people often think of tokens as digital assets or currencies, a more accurate technical definition would describe them as data structures that can track quantities, permissions, and other metadata for users on a blockchain. If that sounds abstract, that’s because tokens are an abstraction. This abstraction makes them easy to use and simple to

Technology that borrows from what came before is sometimes called skeuomorphic. The term originally referred to design elements in art that are intentional, albeit unnecessary, holdovers.

In a well-designed network, growth begets growth, creating a healthy and dynamic system.