How to engage & retain users in Web3
On protocolization & composability moats w/ David Phelps
Welcome to the very first episode of NextMeta - a merge/rebrand of MetaView & Frontiers of Coordination, along with Realizing MetaGame (newsletter) coming next!
In this episode of NextMeta, peth sits down with David Phelps, co-founder of JokeRace and a premium quality shitposter on crypto twitter. If you don‘t know David, you should really follow him on twitter!
Tho his unique humorous-yet-informative takes on latest happenings in crypto are what a big part of what helped David rise to prominence, he‘s also a successful second time founder with loads of wisdom on building in web3.
"You lose some moats, but you gain others. And it's quite exciting to think about how that can play out at an application level." - David Phelps on interoperability
Topics discussed
David's background & past success
The evolution of DAOs & David‘s interest
The "ProtoApp Thesis" & the only viable moat
Challenges with token-based voting & the shortcomings of financial incentives
The role of social incentives in retaining users
The divide between the crypto-native audience and those who genuinely need decentralized financial solutions
The importance of scalability, UX improvements & interoperability in Web3
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Wait, WTF you mean rebrand?
Yes - we‘ve merged our main podcast series, “MetaView” and “Frontiers of Coordination”, with this newsletter joining in a bit.
In short, MetaView was focused on the bigger picture topics like Game B, regeneration & the importance of Web3 in the bigger picture, while the “Frontiers of Coordination” series focused on DAOs & coordination. And given we‘ve been doing all of these for 3-4 years, a branding refresh was long overdue!
Naturally, NextMeta will focus on both & more. And again, will include this newsletter which was up until this point been mostly about “Realizing MetaGame”.
You‘ll hear more about all of it in one of the upcoming newsletters, but for now…
As we wrap up this revamp & reorient, we‘ll be wanting a lot more of your feedback!
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peth