Working Group Session - 06/08/20: Reading Group Session #1

Blockstack’s first Reading Group session dug into the economic flywheel that is core to crypto business models.

Reading Group members watched Ali Yahya’s Crypto Business Models: Economic Flywheels video and discussed key concepts such as:

  • Multi-sided platforms
  • The token as a mechanism for value capture
  • Defensibility
  • Network effects
  • The Value Capture Paradox
  • Cross-side network effects
  • And Layer 1 vs. Layer 2 business models

→ Watch a recording of the session
→ Read through the discussion doc