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Nobody Knows : Steel & Blockchains

Tom Tunguz

Asking “What problems do blockchains solve?” Blockchain networks are a new construction material for building a better internet. Unlike steel, Web3 systems have many novel attributes like guaranteeing data is secure. They store less data. The pace of innovation is hard to overstate. They are less well understood.

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The State of Web3 in 2022 through Data

Tom Tunguz

My Top 15 Observations from the Data: 2.5m So much innovation has been unleashed in the last few years, most of us are still absorbing the implications & working to identify the best applications of the 4 fundamental innovations of web3. A few notes about the data: web3 data is fuzzy.

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Gas Gas Revolution

Tom Tunguz

The same cost-reduction phenomenon is occurring with blockchains, though it’s not nearly as well publicized. The cost to save data to a blockchain is called gas. Some newer blockchain databases like Sui have further pushed that cost to $0.0019 as of this writing. More (e)room for data for less dollars.

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How to Harness the Power of Digital Market Dynamics for Product Innovation

Blulogix

How to Harness the Power of Digital Market Dynamics for Product Innovation By BluLogix Team Innovating Subscription Offerings in the Agile Digital Landscape The digital marketplace is an ever-evolving ecosystem, characterized by rapid changes in technology, consumer behavior, and competitive landscapes.

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The Future of Security Compliance: How Emerging Technologies are Setting New Rules

Scytale

Organizations and regulators are now forced to rethink their attitudes towards innovative (albeit risky) solutions to many of the gaps in traditional compliance processes. However, at the same time, the use of emerging technology raises significant concerns about security, privacy, and data protection. Let’s take a look.

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An Era of Fundamental and Massive Change - The Capital Markets Innovation of the ICO

Tom Tunguz

The technology innovation catalyzed by Bitcoin and Blockchain is creating many multibillion dollar economies quickly. They financed the development and deployment of switches, routers, modems and the installation of copper lines to connect new data centers. The ICO market today bears many similarities to the dotcom era.

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5 Predictions for 2021

Tom Tunguz

2020 becomes the decade of data. The 2020s will be the era of data companies boosting massive markets. Database startups, data movement startups, data quality startups, data lineage startups, machine learning startups will be the zeitgeist of the decade as they shape the next wave of massive innovation.