Rarely leaving our homes over the past few months has messed with our concept of time...however, we do know it’s time for the 9th edition of Best of Abridged!
As a quick reminder, the Best of Abridged series provides an insight into our culture, an understanding where we are heading, and continues our community-driven mission by including you into the conversation.
Please reach out to discuss any of these topics further!
Abridged Announcements
We're launching Collab.Land soon as a submission for the Hack Money hackathon. Collab.Land builds better communities through automated chat membership, community reward systems, and (eventually) DAO capabilities.
The past few weeks we spent part of our time interviewing people at Marker DAO to understand how to alleviate pain points to their governance process. Learn more and take our survey here!
Future of Work
The Passion Economy will turn the world upside-down!
We are entering the golden age of the friend-of-friend social network -- this offers a very high ceiling for DAO’s!
Talking directly to customers will never go out of style
How much money can you make in business?
Own your distribution → Emails and Personal Websites will always be valuable
Re-envisioning how to find a profitable market
Building a business requires an engaged community
Zoom’s market cap is in a universe of its own
Why was Deno created?
"Software eating the world is going through an inflection point I thought wouldn’t arrive till 2030. The pandemic has accelerated the schedule by 10 years."
Facebook is bringing even more business online during the pandemic. Is this temporary or for good?
Microsoft launches Lists: a new Airtable-like app for Microsoft 365
Stripe is definitely the place to be!!
Tokens
Amazing Twitter thread on Personal Tokens
^^ And then here’s a clapback
One of the first Governance Tokens is launched by Balancer Labs
Read up on the rise of brand tokens
Explore the unique benefits of Reddit’s new Ethereum-based community tokens!
Personal tokens are taking off in Russia
Profits on tokenized Reddit karma?!
Rest of Web3
Web3 is growing...and fast!
MetaCartel is a guiding star in the Web3 world!
Putting the “State” in State Channels
The intersection of licensing and blockchain
Check out PillarWallet’s slick new design!
ETH.BUILD = AMAZING Web3 Prototype
Learn how Reflex Bonds work!
UniswapV2 on Mainnet!
What is an Airtable custom block and how do they work?
MetaGame Quest System is now live!
Easy Web3 on-boarding guide!
MakerDAO’s SourceCred Trial
Until next time!
The Abridged Team