a16z and specifically Chris Dixon gave us a clear vision: Read, Write, Own from their podcast (where they barely talk about crypto), it seems like they think it is now plumbing for other technologies this is actually a victory but i don’t believe that this is all there is Dixon’s book writes about various use cases of a public distributed ledger i am still bullish on - onchain social - user-owned gaming assets - DAOs (and Agentic Autonomous Orgs) - capital formation and community participation in early stages - NFTs as art / provenance for art - DePin networks seeded by tokens - IP creation/licensing launchpad one thing this industry has failed at is valuing tokens and using them fairly ironically, i think AI will create a need for these use cases but i am quite naive. if you are naive as well, let’s build