What now?
"Bears are for building", but what do you do when the biggest builders in Web3 are falling, one by one?
“Bears are for building.”
Sure.
But what, exactly, should we be building? It feels like the brands that had the best grip on last cycle’s narratives are getting hit the hardest, and crypto is again left to sort through the rubble in search of the next bull narrative we can pour resources into.
What’s next to crumble?
What tech has the most promise?
What platforms are worth using, and what pain points remain?
If we can answer these questions, we’ll have a decent shot at building the next bull.
Build better
Finding answers is what Flipside does. We’re a team of professionals with backgrounds in TradFi, DeFi, Web2 and Web3 building a web3 data analytics service to understand how people use web3, and predict how they will in the future.
We partner with top blockchains, exchanges, and marketplaces to curate and model comprehensive user data and activate community analysts to interpret trends and build dashboards to communicate their findings.
But as any builder will tell you, data is only part of the picture. Experience is where data becomes insight. So we’re taking a holistic approach by helping build Web3 ourselves, serving as delegates in decentralized governance protocols, and documenting what we learn in this blog to help you build better, too.
A holistic approach to Web3
We aren’t just creating data standards to help make Web3 easier to analyze. We’re actively participating — building DAOs and DAO primitives, NFTs, decentralized labor markets, builder tooling, and more — so that we can better understand our industry and help pave the path forward.
If you’re building or bought into Web3, these posts will help you build or invest smarter.
If you’re not a builder, entrepreneur, or investor in Web3, these posts can help you cut through the noise surrounding blockchain and crypto, and see what value it can provide you, professionally or personally.
Posts will come in two main forms:
1. The economy of Web3
A financial series, written by Flipside’s CFO, Mike Featherstone — a TradFi migrant to crypto who still occasionally catches flack from his Wall Street colleagues for jumping into such an “unpredictable” industry.
His posts will explore crypto and web3 from a recent outsider’s perspective, sitting in that neat spot in the center of the Venn Diagram between TradFi and DeFi.
He’s also active in the economic modeling of Flipside-incubated DAOs and labor markets, so there will be direct implications for all sorts of Web3 protocols, not just TradFi firms.
2. Tech innovations in Web3
A technological series, written by Flipside’s CTO, Jim Myers — a Web3 native building developer teams focused on solving the biggest usability issues in the industry.
Jim’s posts will break down how the latest innovations in Web3 tech can help our work and society move a few steps forward.
Meet the c-suite
One of our favorite narratives of the last cycle was access - sometimes it was an NFT community, other times it was a twitter account, but most projects gave their communities access to the founding team and their experiences.
We want to bring that forward into the next cycle with these posts by giving you access to Flipside’s executive team and everything we’re learning as we analyze the data and wrestle with some of the industry’s biggest problems.
As the industry evolves and critical events unfold, we’ll occasionally hand the mic over to other members of Flipside’s leadership team to get their opinions and expertise.
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