I know many of you are not in it for the tech but the tech is genuinely fascinating and this industry is working hard to hide complexity from the end user

Last year I started a cryptocurrency podcast where I invite builders and founders to come and share their experiences in the crypto and blockchain space. We often talk about how they got into crypto and what led them to build their current project.

I've recorded nearly 20 episodes so far and I've learned loads about this industry. So far I've seen Web3 gaming startups, infrastructure and development, token gating products, web3 authentication, CEXes and others.

Some of my favorite conversations were with Jordan who's building a blockchain designed to make predictions about the future. Each node is tasked to predict one single piece of data, but then entire network may make wider predictions by using these thousands of individual predictions. The project is entirely community-driven and fully open source.

Another really interesting discussion I had was with Michael Sanders who's the co-founder of Horizon. These guys are building an infrastructure layer for game developers to start using blockchain data into their games, without any of the complexity. They have created Unity and Unreal Engine SDKs where game devs can easily import web3 data to create blockchain-based games.

The latest conversation that I had with Itai - the co-founder of a Web3 authentication solution was also really interesting for me. Dynamic have essentially built a set of authentication tools like Auth0 but with web3 at its core. You can still authenticate with SSO or social logics and if you do so, your wallet and web2 identity will be linked (privately). What blew my mind is that this interaction then abstracts away from the complexity of blockchain.

This is actually what I keep noticing from the different founders and builders out there in the space. Companies like Dynamic, Horizon, OKX and others are working to abstract away from the complexity of blockchain, and create experiences where it really doesn't matter which chain you're on etc.

Blockchain could become a new decentralized infrastructure layer that applications leverage, but the end user doesn't even need to know that. This is where crypto will see crazy adoption - when it's as easy to use as email.

So yeah, anyway I just wanted to share my observations in this space for the past year or so. Hope they made some sense :)

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