Orchid's key piece of infrastructure is nanopayments – probabilistic payments where instead of sending $1, a consumer would send a payment with a provably fair 1% chance of paying $100.
Orchid's infrastructure can be used to create other marketplaces that require nanopayments.
Orchid faces competition from existing VPN providers, but can potentially compete on a few axes:
1) Price - most important for consumers
2) Security - enhanced encrypt, no single server or point of failure
3) Privacy - many VPNs are free but collect your data and sell it
Web3 protocols are slowly unbundling valuable internet services into infrastructure and marketplaces underpinned by cryptonetworks. messari.io/article/orchid…
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The most valuable assets are intangible. However, this hasn’t always been true.
Before the 1990’s the most valuable assets – as categorized as components of the S&P 500 – were tangible assets(i.e. Land, equipment, etc).
Crypto will increase the value of intangible assets.
This trend might not surprise you, as it might intuitively make sense in the context of everyday life.
Disney+ is valuable because of Marvel and The Mandalorian. People drink Coca-Cola instead of the clearly tastier Pepsi. Users buy Fortnite skins which hold zero in-game value.
Intangible assets, in particular, intellectual property are often described as illiquid and inefficient for a variety of reasons including market opaqueness, inconsistent valuations, and lack of standardization.
Digitizing & programming IP assets can help alleviate these issues.
The bull market has caused DAO treasuries to balloon over the past year, with the top ten treasuries now possessing balance sheets worth hundreds of millions, or in some cases, billions of dollars.
However, DAOs in their current form are set up for financial failure.
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Nearly all of the top treasuries have the entirety of their assets in their native token and don't hold a notable % allocation of stablecoins or less volatile assets like Ether or Bitcoin.
Effectively, most protocol treasuries are subject to the turbulence of the market.
Proper risk management ensures protocols have sufficient capital to cover immediate expenses and weather uncertain tides.
Read the Messari Enterprise Report for an analysis on how DAOs can restructure to avoid significant loss if the market corrects. messari.io/article/a-cris…
Messari Screeners track over 35 of the largest crypto-focused venture and hedge funds including Coinbase Ventures, Pantera, Polychain, a16z, and more.
Of these funds, we’ve analyzed their public holdings and found the most commonly held assets across all the portfolios.
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Investing like a crypto fund – venture or hedge – has never been easier. An average investor can quite literally copy-trade these portfolios and mirror any of their favorite funds.
Social tokens are an intriguing category of cryptoassets.
Using social tokens, creators and entrepreneurs can unlock new monetization opportunities leading to a tremendous amount of value being created by this emerging asset class.
Generally, social tokens can be broadly categorized:
Personal - issued and controlled by a primary individual
Community - issued and controlled by a group, often managed by a DAO
Social Platform - tokens that govern a platform that facilitates social token issuance and exchange
Several social tokens which have slowly developed into communities possess circulating market capitalizations of several million dollars.