Crypto Primitives

Technologies and behaviors that have emerged in crypto, and the real world use cases that might benefit from them

I’ve spent years thinking passively in the background what use cases there are for crypto and decentralized finance. I struggle a lot with the narrative around the benefits of permissionless, decentralized, money analogues because I don’t yet believe these are necessarily valuable in and of themselves. For example, it's very likely that most people who don’t trust their bank simply want a place to store their money that they can trust, not “decentralization”. Decentralization might be one tool to build a trustworthy system, but a system is not trustworthy simply because it's decentralized.  I think these features will have to unlock novel, useful experiences to be truly valuable.

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