Wonderful, inspiring and galvanizing post @dominicwilliams.
About your SNS point, I agree 100%.
About the first part of your message : the contextualization, here are my 2 cents :
I think our bad start can become a strength : since we can’t count on the current Web3 investors, VCs and press, since we are “doomed to walk in the shadows”, let’s go to whisper to the entities currently deaf to the web 3 and by consequence still not unbiased : let us approach big companies not yet introduced to web 3, but which will join for profitability. The WEB 3 companies are corrupted ? So be it, let us talk with the outsiders, not yet corrupted, without any partiality for a chain or against a chain.
May I give one simple example ? Let us consider Disney, with their brand new game Disney Dreamlight Valley. As we know Disney is in some profitability trouble right now, but they count a lot on their game to generate some traction. They already designed a game functioning with collectibles, skins, accessories and above all : a (not crypto) currency called “moonstones” usable in the game but also on their store (the money is currently earned in the game or bought with fiat). Let us show them how the web3 could be good for their game, and how to make their currency a crypto currency. They ll be approached sooner than later. Let us go to them before they looking for some chain or before some chain looking for them. ICP could be easily the chain making them reaching the next step.
I could give you other examples of companies not yet influenced by the corruption of the web3 space you described and with huge challenges coming, but also industries : for example, the pornographic industry is about to be censored in France – and soon in other European countries – because they could not figure how to prevent children from watching it easily thanks to a proof of age working anonymously like you could provide (simple example, because I can understand that Dfinity does not want ICP to be associated with pornography as soon as now, but you get my point). Both the industry and the country would praise the solution to this problem :
- the pornographic industry, because their sustainability will be threatened ;
- the country, because they don’t want to lose the huge taxes paid by this industry because of the huge revenue they generate. The country doesn’t want to censor and tried to find a solution by themselves, but could not.
The current web 3 ecosystem doesn’t like ICP, fears it or hate it ? So be it : ICP will reach the web2 companies having interest to join web 3.
But besides companies, as described above : we could help countries and regions finding some solutions (like you did with federitaly or could do with France for example), but also top rank charities wanting to raise funds and setting a DAO, like UNICEF).
The utility of our chain will have to precede the hype, whereas the other chains’ hypes precede their utility (or their uselessness) ; let us be the chain of the current web3 agnostic entities and people : the ambassador and the introduction to the web 3.
In conclusion : the Web 3 is corrupted ? Let us hunt on other lands : let us help the not yet Web 3 entities to integrate web3 (governmental, non-governmental, private, public). Let us initiate their interest to do it.