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How does a protocol play differ from a platform play?

Platform Play

- we own the ecosystem

- you connect through our own APIs

- you play in our sandbox

- we decide who gets to play (fragile)

- if we go down, you go down

Protocol Play

- we play a part in a larger ecosystem

- you use open source code for your use case

- you can use our services, or anyone else’s (but ours are the best)

- we decide who uses our services (no one decides who uses the protocol)

- the ecosystem’s growth is not limited by us

Protocol plays are the future, they’re not controlled or limited by any one entity, they are bigger than the sum of their parts

Platforms are monopolies, will likely be treated as such in the future. Platforms don’t have the growth / access potential that protocols do. Since platforms are monopolies, they become captured and corrupted over time
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calle 1y ago

It's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much more work to build a protocol, sheeesh

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Nick Slaney 1y ago

Heh you took the hard route!

Not aimed at you but from what I’ve seen, what’s as hard as having the balls to try a different path than building a platform is resisting the urge to build an n+1 protocol (and essentially reverting to making a platform anyway)

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Nick Slaney 1y ago

IOW, to make a protocol play, you don’t have to actually make the protocol. Probably even preferred if what’s out there is being used and meets your requirements