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The web is built of innumerable revenue streams. From YouTube creators getting paid for ads, to Bandcamp artists getting paid for downloads. But these revenue streams are 'locked in': creators cannot access their future value ahead of time. It's time to kill this inefficiency.
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Now stitches together the new mechanisms that our ecosystem launched in a sprint last month: - Vouches (ANS-109) and VouchDAO for Sybil resistance - Stamps and StampCoins for upvotes and rewards - $bAR and
@vertoexchange
for markets
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Today the Arweave ecosystem is launching 6 new services and protocols which unlock an entirely new angle of the permaweb: The web of value. WTF is it? Let's jump down the rabbithole 🧵
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🐘🔗 sam.arweave.dev
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As we mentioned at the time -- sometimes progress is incremental, sometimes it is a step function. This time the ecosystem delivered years of progress in one chunk. Proud of and thankful to you all ❤️, Arweavers!
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🐘🔗 sam.arweave.dev
@samecwilliams
For the curious: Why should an archive care about tradeable culture? Because incentives always win. Unlock the value of data that is uploaded, and you flip the game from 'pay to upload' to 'get paid to upload'. This is how we will build the library.
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Stage 1. Build the incentives for a library that never forgets. Stage 2. Build the incentives to fill that library with the world's knowledge. <=== We are here.
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