#21: DeSo is ushering the era of Application Specific Blockchains

The economy of the new internet is based on the fundamentally scarce resource of attention

The new internet needs to provide new primitives for truth-seeking so that individuals and communities can contribute to finding truth for themselves.

To bring the power of blockchains to mainstream internet applications which are data-heavy, we need to shift from the current paradigm of general-purpose blockchains to application-specific…

A variety of blockchain approaches are trying to solve the data bottleneck of blockchains ranging from modular approaches like Farcaster to integrated approach like DeSo

While blockchains have been long touted as the solution to decentralize the internet, they have struggled beyond financial applications because of heavy data storage needs of the internet