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Through blockchains and cryptoeconomics, the time and complexity of developing trust is abstracted away, which allows a large number people to collaborate and share in the profits of such collaboration without a hierarchical structure of a traditional firm. Today, middlemen and rent seekers are a necessary evil in order to keep order, maintain safety, and enforce the rules of P2P marketplaces. But in many areas, these cryptoeconomic systems can replace that trust, and cutting out middlemen and their fees will allow users to exchange goods and services at a significantly lower cost.
The projects in the subcategories can be broken down into two main groups: Markets that allow users to exchange goods and services that are fungible will commoditize things like storage, computation, internet connectivity, bandwidth, energy, etc.
Companies that sell these products today compete on economies of scale which can only be displaced by better economies of scale. By opening up latent supply and allowing anyone to join the network which will become easier through projects like 1Protocol this no longer becomes a daunting task, once again collapsing margins towards zero.
This allows aggregators like Kayak and other companies in the space to displace traditional travel agents by building a front end on top of these systems that users can transact on. In shared data blockchain protocols, users can take these types of datasets with them as other applications hook into shared data protocols, reducing barriers to entry; increasing competition and as a result ultimately increasing the pace of innovation.
The other way to think about shared data protocols can be best described using a centralized company, such as Premise Data , as an example.
The company uses machine learning to extract insights and then sells these datasets to a range of customers. Rather than finding and hiring people to collect these datasets, a project could be started that allows anyone to collect and share this data, annotate the data, and build different models to extract insights from the data. In theory, the result would be more contributors and higher quality datasets as the market sets the going rate for information and compensates participants accordingly relative to their contribution.
The challenge I foresee will be in sales and business development. Most of these companies sell their dataset to larger organizations and it will be interesting to see how decentralized projects distribute theirs in the future.
Ultimately, cryptocurrencies are just digital assets native to a specific blockchain and projects in this category are using these digital assets to represent either real world goods like fair tickets or data. Hence why, for sensitive data or markets for goods which have traditionally been rife with fraud, it would make sense to use a blockchain to assure the user of their integrity.
Compound is an investor in Blockstack and two other projects mentioned in this post which have not yet been announced. Joshua Nussbaum is a partner at the New York-based venture firm, Compound. You will be redirected to Coinbase to grant read-only access to CoinTracker. Sign Up with Email. Crypto taxes made easy. CoinTracker calculates your cost basis and capital gains. Download your transaction history for free, or purchase a filled-out IRS Form CoinTracker syncs your balances, transactions, and ERC20 tokens from your local wallets and exchange accounts.
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