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David Phelps

Deep dives into crypto and web3: what does the past of tech, culture, and economics tell us about their future?

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Persuasion Markets: A Manifesto

Persuasion Markets: A Manifesto

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To work in crypto in 2025 is to constantly face both the ideologica...

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The Fat App Thesis

This is the third—hopefully last!—part in an ongoing series on the value of blockchain apps after part 1 (the proto-app thesis) and part 2 (the social app thesis). They do not need to be read consecutively, so don’t worry: you can go ahead...

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The Social App Thesis

It’s been a minute, or hundreds of thousands of minutes, since my last piece here, but I’ve published a couple pieces in that time on consumer apps I’d love to work with potential founders to build: namely, Hackathons-as-a-Sport, and Realit...

2 years ago
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Cosmic Timing

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I had a friend tell me earlier this year that she thought my “cosmic timing might be off.” What she meant, I gathered, is that I have a tendency to push my will on the world rather than to pause patiently for its signals...

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The Proto-App Thesis

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They are what might be termed self-defeating questions, and they haunt those of us foolish enough to dare build consumer apps:

  1. Do we actually think value accrues to apps when all evidence points to protocols ins...
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