One thing that occasionally irks me is that the features that have long been foreseen and enabled by this networks design are now finally becoming a reality on individual blockchain platforms. Probably too many to mention here without an extensive list.
OTOH almost every individual feature are niche to each one of these blockchain platforms.
Blockchains weren’t interoperable in the past but that is beginning to change as well, though what really is happening there? Are Solana, Internet Computer, Polkadot going to be interoperable with each other? Or close each other out in competition? It seems so risky for people choosing to create things or transactions on one chain that might later fizzle out and not be recognized on others. Blockchain makes this all easier to recover from too though with a full transparent ledger.
So what does that mean for us? Slowly but surely the blockchain world is catching up but they are missing a few important things. Hard to sum up tbh, but the network being backed by data, ease of use, full network wide compatibility, private/fast/free transactions, online/offline data storage and mutations, our consensus mechanisms, probably more I’m missing.
Feature wise you can probably find any number of blockchain companies covering one thing or another such as, digital ID, NFTs and royalty payments (which I’ve been planning for longer than what I’ve seen in the wider crypto space…), atomic swaps, immutable domains, content publishing, etc etc.
It’s just that the whole space happening now was envisaged and built to be possible for Safe Network loooong ago. Every investor knew this project was ambitious early on but no one knew it would take this long. Regardless, this is my favorite project. I believe this is what cypher punks really wanted.
It will succeed, I truly believe that. It’s just a matter of how quickly we can gain traction and interest. The more apps we have, the more exposure we have, the better. I hope we all put in the required effort to make sure it pops like the champagne corks we’ll all be popping 