Blockchains have incentivized zero-knowledge proof research, creating modern proving systems w/ smaller memory footprints and faster proving & verification times — making it possible to verify certain small machine learning algorithms on-chain. a16zcrypto.com/content/articl… ZKPs are useful for more than validity rollups and on-chain privacy. Recently, there have been notable efforts in putting larger and more complex models on-chain, leveraging the ability of ZKPs to succinctly represent and verify programs.

Web3 Media - Why it’s inevitable, What’s here today, and Where we’re heading ... a thread🧵 1) Inevitability
We are in an era of peak cultural production. In 2021, roughly 60,000 new tracks were released on Spotify every day, up from 40,000 the year before. The platform currently has over 82 million songs on it, and ended the year with 3.6 million podcasts.

A core value unique to web3 is composability: the ability to take assets or data generated by one protocol & use them with another. In web3 games, composability unlocks something powerful – for the first time, players get to guide the mechanics & values of the game itself. If you look at many of the most popular games in the (still early!) history of web3, you’ll notice that composability is in the DNA of all of them. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that these games succeeded because the developers of these games built with composability in mind.

Something @cdixon and I have been discussing: how NFTs can completely reshape mobile gaming. Most arcade-style mobile games monetize through in-game purchases or in-game ads, which primarily function to extend gameplay. This is of course disruptive for players, but on an even more ironic level, it’s actually bad for developers.

Why web3 gaming will finally unlock the true potential of user-generated content - a thread 🧵 Web3 games are living proof of the fact that digital economies will be the most robust, composable, and remixable. Instead of take rates that extract value at every layer of the stack, value can compound in real time thanks to a network of users and engaged contributors.