Masayoshi Son, the charismatic leader of Softbank the $100bn venture fund and his 300 year vision of the future has been making headlines but for me it misses a fundamental paradigm shift happening in the Internet today.
The terms off-chain governance and decentralized governance are used too liberally in the crypto space and without a full grounding in political philosophy.
Once you have your problem structured the next step is to turn your attention toward the actual participants of the network and how value flows around the ecosystem. This step should be rooted in user research.
Following the successful September release of our Convergence in Mobility report, we are sharing the findings in events around Europe.
Tokens are value creation and exchange mechanisms that allow network agents to participate in, and/or manage the system. They ensure that nodes operate effectively and actors participate in a coordinated manner. Therefore, they play an important role in aligning the incentives of the ecosystem participants.
Outlier Ventures’ State Of Blockchains 2019 report highlights increasing user adoption whilst data shows decline in ETH price isn’t due to ICO sellers