Ethereum

i dunno if this is cope or bullish or what, but for the first time in a very long time i don't feel that there are massive gaps of work to be done in ethereum that no one is doing

feels like everything important that i can think of is actively being invested in and worked on by top tier builders

is this alignment?

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

Who’s working on using Ethereum only behind the scenes as the programmable blockchain part of their application while actually revolutionizing some real-world function that begs to be disrupted by blockchain?

Future of stablecoin payments that is already possible today but blocked by regulatory uncertainty or regulatory capture:

1. Purchase protections/chargebacks: Shopify, Stripe, etc will happily escrow payments to merchants while collecting yield for the duration. They can mediate, or we can imagine third party mediator oracles (maybe escrow yield goes to mediators, the consumer, or merchant, tbd).

2. "Savings account interest" no longer comes from the custodian, but from the stablecoin itself. It doesn't matter where you hold it.

3. Treasury bill yield added to stablecoin yield. Right now banks have capture over this, but once banks get in on issuing stablecoins, we can imagine the combined yield being even higher. Far higher than what any traditional bank "savings account" could offer.

4. Credit-based stablecoin payments. We can already do this with collateralized loans, but new issuers or merchant platforms can offer additional facilities to customers based on history/autodeposit/custodied balances/etc.

stripe, shopify, etc... eventually, every bank https://farcaster.xyz/shazow.eth/0xd1afed5e

more covertly: game studios like sony and ccp games, there's too much bad baggage from gamers against blockchain so it has to be very subtle or messaged very tightly

i'm also a fan of grassroots unauthorized elections/referendums using zk proofs of passports (rarilabs freedom tool), already a few have been deployed, but just getting started

Web2/Web3 developer and builder of grassroots decentralized culture and governance. Not a maximalist of any kind. Writing this as I go.

Widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily mean everyone is aware of the use of blockchain in their applications. For example, relational databases undergird almost every software application in use today but very few users (relatively speaking) know or care about that. Empowering more decentralized and robust money movement is great but these centralizing entities will do what they do best with promising technologies. 

That last bit about ZK proof of passport sounds both very powerful and meaningful.