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@vgr
What’s a fundamental non-currency infrastructure affordance of blockchains that can’t be delivered with web2 or older stacks easily? A near-example is NFTs bought on one site showing up on another, which you can’t do in web2 (closest is walled garden/game badges). Things like this but more infrastructurey in flavor, and neither finance related, nor fun and games. Maybe like DeFi for nonFi things?
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@raulonastool
The core unlock imho is that blockchains are permissionless execution layers with built-in trust guarantees. In contrast to web2, where infrastructure depends on closed APIs, standard bodies, and institutional agreements, blockchains let anyone write to shared state governed by code, not gatekeepers. This changes what's possible across industries. In music, artists can publish NFTs with embedded royalty logic that enforces itself without intermediaries. In supply chains, provenance, custody, and fulfillment can be tracked immutably and verified by any participant with no central database or EDI agreement required. In healthcare, patients could manage access to their encrypted medical records without relying on vendor-led “interoperability” initiatives that have dragged on for decades. You could technically build many of these systems on traditional cloud infra. But you'd be recreating the same permissioned bottlenecks.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
You’re doing broad strokes vision stuff everyone’s been doing for years That’s why I’m asking for specific affordances
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