Founder [Questbook (YCw21)](https://questbook.xyz) Writing about things that need to be built in web3
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In web2, they who control the App on the users’ phones control the distribution. But they who control the UI in web3 don’t necessarily control distri...
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Publish a model on Github If your dapp needs a particular ML model to be run to identify face from a video, count the number of reps of pushups from a...
I think we routinely keep talking about bringing 1B users to web3. It’s a wrong mental model, and we end up building the exactly wrong products. Web3 ...
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We’re lying to ourselves what web3 is about. Just because someone named it web3, we’ve forced ourselves to come up with a usecase that is incremental ...
Common traps that developers fall into which stops them from moving fast and breaking things. I’m going to invite a lot of shit on myself for this - b...
Most web3 developers are writing code that is centralized. They’re just writing web2 code in Solidity. Be careful when you’re overpaying for “web3 dev...
I wrote earlier that NFTs are an essential piece in the identity layer on web3. https://mirror.xyz/madhavanmalolan.eth/2nmFmRYYrzCobAZibMK_F_UNe5xAAxI...
Grants are treated as charity; A moral obligation for successful projects to redistribute the wealth they’ve created. That is exactly where some proto...
DAOs are the biggest misnomer of web3. They don’t work, and no one seems to know how to make it work. Here, I present a view to challenge the way we l...
Wallets don’t need security on day 1, onboarding needn’t be so hard. Here, I present a wallet design that is easy for users to onboard and secure enou...
More specifically, I’m looking forward to governments banning crypto to fiat conversions. Ban Most people’s interaction with crypto has been NFTs, De...
The traditional models of software architectures don’t apply to decentralized dapps. We need a new paradigm. Here, I outline a new architecture for DA...
Auditing wait times on top audit firms are 9-12 months and expensive. We need something that is more participative and allows for new and yet-unprove...
We, as a community of builders, are prematurely thinking about the problem of bringing web3 to the masses. We are between 3-5 years away from a web3 p...
We need more data on chain that we can trust. There is no way to know if an API actually returned a certain data when it was hit - as claimed by a per...
Hamburger is a word play on Harberger Tax A community of NFT holders who are paying rent to be a part of the community - and a permissionless NFT mark...
A completely decentralized protocol that lets people borrow money from the treasury by producing an NFT. This is to be built on top of LooksRare, beca...
This is in continuation to the previous post that lays out the technical specifications of decoupling a wallet - between a signing app and an asset ma...
There’s a fundamental flaw in all our wallets’ designs. I present a fix, that I think should fix user onboarding once and for all. The problem is cur...
