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24 Dec, 11 tweets, 9 min read
1/The next major problem set in #DeFi is #NFTLiquidity.

It has become very clear that, like fungibles, nonfungibles are their own financial asset class.

One path to see this is to envision the future of NFTs as “liquid IP”:

blog.coinfund.io/all-digital-co…
2/Some say that NFTs “shouldn’t be” liquid, yet the innovation process continues.

Just like photography has become much easier to create in the last 100 years, liquid NFTs will surely bring down price points of tokenized digital content but will also open expansive new markets.
3/The key observation is this: #NFTLiquidity is merely a technical problem for #DeFi, and the entire set of economic mechanisms is its solution space.

👉🏻 In particular, because of tokenization, *the NFT liquidity problem reduces to the NFT price discovery problem.*
4/In other words, if we could reliably price a set of NFTs, we could issue a token backed by their reliably priced future resale value.

This is a core mechanism that today is underutilized in the market, and one that — we will soon see — applies to all illiquid assets.
5/Today, NFT price discovery proceeds via three main mechanisms: sales, auctions, and ERC20 fractionalization.

And the fundamental problem with each of these mechanisms is capital efficiency: in each mechanism, participants need to spend *at least* $N to value something at $N.
6/If we could find a mechanism which could appraise any NFT for a fixed price (or just a low one!) we could achieve capital efficiency, tokenize the value of the assets, and 💥💥💥 boom we are liquid.
7/This appraisal mechanism can essentially be implemented using prediction markets, oracles, appraiser networks, or ML models.

But one super cool approach uses peer prediction oracles created by @nick_emmons and @UpshotHQ.
8/In this model, a “hot or not” game is played by appraisers who continuously compare and rank NFTs. Eventually, this ranking places the NFTs into a partial ordering which can be calibrated to price.

Prices can then be reported on-chain through @UpshotHQ’s mechanism.
9/Read more on this approach here.

medium.com/upshothq/hot-o…
10/These kinds of #AppraisalGames will go a long way toward achieving liquidity for the NFT asset class and can extend into other illiquid assets — used cars? Homes?

This is just the beginning but we’re about to go into yet another exciting innovation cycle of #NFTLiquidity.

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More from @jbrukh

19 Aug
Answer: . . .because this NFT isn’t the image, it is a LICENSE to the image.

1/Here is a thread about why the NFT-as-LICENSE view is completely disruptive to digital creation.

📝 🤯 👇
2/For most digital content — images, photographs, videos, blogs, music files — ways of monetizing it are few and far between.

📷 A stock photographer might move prints for a few bucks on an online marketplace.

📖 A blogger might earn from some ads on her blog.
3/

🎷 A musician might sell the rights to her songs to a record label, in exchange for money and a contract.

...but by and large, creators either don’t own the rights to their work (musicians) or monetizing those rights is very difficult (ad blogging).
Read 10 tweets
1 Jul
21 predictions for next little while.

1. Lots of large protocols using token-based bootstrapping mechanisms.

2. Proliferation/innovation in decentralized governance systems.

3. Many networks bridging Ethereum.

4. Single-chain maximalism death throes start.
5. Governance token model leads to fast iteration, many experiments, a large scale disaster.

6. New concept explosion — liquidity mining, recursive incentives, bootstrapping loops, protocol interference, economic gravity, proposal farming, protocol politicians.
7. Time to liquidity for sufficiently decentralized tokens falls to 0.

8. Protocol liquidity wars, protocols exercising network effect capture through clever incentives and coordination.

9. $10B protocol unicorn.
Read 7 tweets
21 Feb
1/Honestly, the #cryptoart space can easily step up their game. 🤷‍♂️

I’ve been trying out the shoes of an NFT creator and viscerally feel the pain of blockchain’s users and customers.

cc @SuperRare_co @makersplaceco @KnownOrigin_io @mintbase @opensea @snarkdotart

Thread. . . 👇
2/Only 1 out of the 3 major NFT origination platforms has login without a cryptowallet.

As a result, I lost a sale yesteday because my buyer simply couldn’t make a purchase on the go at #NFTNYC.
3/Buyers need a smooth onboarding experience so we can encourage them to make sales and build a demand side! 💵

At the same time, requiring an email is terrible for cryptonative buyers who want to keep their assets private. 🕵️‍♀️
Read 10 tweets
13 Aug 19
1/I think we will find in retrospect that decentralized lending protocols and their lending rates are of universal importance not just to #DeFi, but to the entire ecosystem.

I wrote a little bit about that here: blog.coinfund.io/crypto-borrowi…

I write about another interesting case...
2/#Layer2 is coming and in these networks we must capitalize state channel hubs in order to create throughput. This creates a substantial hurdle for running hubs & caps commissions.
3/Instead of locking capital, hub operators might leverage lending protocols to borrow it & increase throughput. However, the borrowing rate will inform the commission hubs will charge (and vice versa).
Read 8 tweets
9 Aug 19
I am working on a post about decentralized resource networks (think file storage or computation) competing with the unit economics of large, efficient incumbents (think Amazon).

Wow, when you write this stuff out on paper, things get very interesting.👇
We tend to think of networks as monolithic protocols that compete with a large incumbents like Amazon as a unit.

But of course such networks are also coalitions of small-to-medium providers that have agreed to follow the network’s rules in order to coordinate.
What they coordinate on is competing with incumbents on weak points: closedness, privacy, censorship-resistance, customer experience, and of course pricing.

They also compete with each other, eroding their margins to nearly 0. (More on that later.)
Read 9 tweets
14 May 19
We as an industry need to make explicit a key point about the #governance space:

*In our 500,000 years of being humans we have learned less about coordination systems than we will learn in the next 5-10 years.*

@lrettig @MolochDAO @cburniske @AragonProject @daostack @nc0we 👇
First and foremost, if you are designing *governance systems* and you’re not up to speed on our 200+ years of quantitative research in this area, consider researching this body of work.

Here is a resource to get you started, first tweeted in 2017:

Secondly, by and large, we collectively have at most a few years of experience with on-chain voting systems.

Voting is just one way to coordinate.

Everything is an experiment.

Governance of networks, upgrades, DAOs, nonprofits, public co’s does not & should not look the same.
Read 14 tweets

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