Web3’s Biggest Consumer: The Consumer

1 year ago

Recapping Mint Season 6, Episode 23

Season 6, Episode 23 of the Mint Podcast with Adam Levy features Gaby Goldberg. She is an capitalist astatine TCG Crypto, an aboriginal signifier user crypto money focusing connected web3 scaling, investing successful the Passion Economy. Some of these investments see RabbitHole, Archive, and The Hume Collective. She is besides a self-proclaimed shitposter.

An intriguing country successful crypto is credentialing aka figuring retired what individuality and estimation looks similar online, whether successful web2 oregon web3. Tied to that are interfaces for user experiences. For web3 specifically:

“Wallets are the interface for interacting with web3.”

One of the biggest divides betwixt web2 and web3 is getting radical to effort retired web3 products. That usually comes from having a fiscal inducement to bash truthful (i.e. hoping for an airdrop, token incentives, etc.). Web3 “consumers” tin beryllium thought of pieces of infrastructure done their behaviors. For example, on-chain sleuths (detectives) creates a marketplace accidental for amended artifact explorers. Ultimately, for Gaby, mostly boils down to this:

“[What] are the products that assistance america amended stock and recognize what integer experiences look like?”

To Gaby, successful 5 years, the wallet volition beryllium 1 of the astir important pieces of user information for individuals and businesses. For businesses, they tin now. Through crypto wallets, beryllium capable to cognize their customer’s spending habits, what different communities and brands they are aligned with, etc.

“This allows radical to go ‘collectors’ and creates a benignant of acquisition crippled for businesses, creators, and individuals.”