Multi-Hit Wonders: Embracing Apps With Short Shelf Life
The rise of scaled social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok has made it increasingly challenging for newcomers to compete directly.
dAppling - a New Way to Deploy IPFS Sites in Minutes
Welcome! I would love to share what I'm building at dAppling (opens new window), a platform that aims to simplify the build and deployment process for sites hosted on IPFS. I'll share a bit about us, a bit about the platform, and a bit about what you will get. By the end, it should be clear if dAppling (opens new window)is a tool you'll want to add to your developer toolbox.
Own Dapp，a more decentralized Dapp paradigm
The development of the Internet has brought various centralized applications that facilitate value exchange for users. These applications support asset delegation, where users need to trust the applications and delegate their assets for management, such as PayPal, Coinbase, and others. However, with the emergence of blockchain technology, decentralized features were achieved through designs like Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism, enabling asset transfers without the need to delegate assets to applications. This concept of “own asset” allowed users to truly own their assets.
Lessons on Points Programs for Crypto Apps
Across the landscape, founders are adding offchain points programs to their applications, from Rainbow wallet giving users points for using Ethereum, to Friend.tech building its engagement loop around points, to NFT marketplace Blur’s new L2 Blast incentivizing users with Blast Points for bridging funds (over $800 million TVL since November). In some instances, these points allude to a future fungible token with real economic value; in other instances, users have made that leap of faith themselves. This trend comes amidst a broader search for product-market fit in crypto and ways to engage users in the middle of a bear market.
Revisiting the Application Layer
General-purpose blockchains store state and provide logic over that state. We usually refer to state as assets and logic as applications. For example, Ethereum stores assets like Ether and Dai (state), which can be used in applications like Uniswap and Aave (logic). Collectively, state and logic make up what we call the application layer.
Wallet Infrastructure: Empowering the Next Generation of Dapps
Wallet infrastructure is playing a crucial role in unlocking the web3 experience for the next generation of dapps. So far, users have had to install additional software, source and fund it with a novel currency, and face unfamiliar confirmation screens before even making the first interaction in web3. Despite improved firewalling and a movement away from seed phrases, these hurdles are still points of high churn for decentralized applications.
