Thread by @sbmckeon

1/ Dropping two articles today. The main one covers the future of work.

medium.com/collab-currenc…

2/ Crypto economies have already begun to shape the future of work. There are now a variety of models to convert human labor into earnings, broadly described as “to-earn” models. They blend how we play, learn, organize, socialize, and create, with ownership and income generation.

3/ DAOs will coordinate much of this activity.

4/ Play-to-earn was pioneered by @AxieInfinity. The key feature is that the players own the game. They own the board, the characters, the ability to create new characters, and the in-game currencies. It is as much an economy as a game.

It's the birth of a digital nation.

5/ Learn-to-earn models like @Rabbithole_gg are enabling income generation through skill acquisition. Networks become more valuable as more people use them, but potential users first need to learn how to use them.

Users can now get paid for doing so.

6/ Judge-to-earn is a broad, emerging category encompassing dispute resolution (@UMAprotocol, @AragonProject Court, @Kleros_io), appraisal (@UpshotHQ), curation (@superrare, @______jpg______), and credit (@sublimefinance).

Will be a monster category of earning opportunities.

7/ Create-to-earn is in full swing. The impact of endowing property rights on digital assets has been historic for creators.

We’ve entered a renaissance period in terms of the ability to earn income through creative labor.

8/ Participate-to-earn is a catch-all for everything else. Protocols will contract with labor providers for all kinds of participatory roles. The largest of which may be governance of the protocol itself. I discuss the role of delegates in this process.

9/ Finally, I also posted a companion article that offers a few thoughts on how these new contracting environments address important building blocks of coordination: Standards and trust production.

medium.com/collab-currenc…