**Post by jay.bsky.team, reply to jay.bsky.team**

that doesn’t mean blockchains are worthless (though i agree most apps don’t need a token). the user keys and merkle trees under the hood here are cryptographic primitives also used by blockchains — for atproto we recombined them in new ways that traded off some decentralization for efficiency.

https://staging.bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo/post/3jumn5msov225