Cryptocurrency and the Incentive Challenges

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There's an end a sort of a technical set of challenges that equally emerge. When you begin to sser to have financial incentives in the platforms and the protocols, you're actually going to get more fragmentation and less standardization than you would if the markets are to setcate. The problem is is that that begins to slow down innovation at an incredible, at an incredible level. And so my concern is that you're actually getting slower development in this architectural pattern which we're actually used to in what we call a web era.

Welcome back, this week Anita and Lucas discuss another stressful week for crypto markets which has pushed even bullish investors into bearish territories. We also chatted about growing crypto regulation efforts and Jack Dorsey’s latest effort called “web5”.

In their interview this week, Lucas and Anita chat with Aaron Levie. Levie is the CEO of enterprise software company Box. While his day job doesn’t have anything to do with the blockchain, he has attracted the ire of plenty of crypto VCs for sharing thoughts on Twitter about why web3 won’t work. We caught up with Levie about some of his biggest complaints and what it would take for him to angel invest in a crypto startup.

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