Jacob Friedman
@jrf
Has anyone quantified the developer time/cost saved building on blockchain protocols versus building custom logic in a centralized way?
Maybe it's too early to tell bc of higher upfront costs of being early to figuring out protocol related challenges
Anyone have experience with both and can comment? 🙏
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99% (In Jest)
@zachharris
@cdixon I’d guess low probability of your answering this cast, but maybe @a16zcrypto has a community manager still paying attention here 🤷♂️
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🌹 Zach Harris 🥀
@zachharris
@nbragg any idea if @trustscore could answer any of this? 👆🏼
Noah Bragg 🤝
@nbragg
None of the current trustscore data could answer this so far.
Kind of a hard question to quantify. Thanks for tagging me! Interesting to think about.
alex
@alexgrover.eth
As someone who’s new to building in crypto, I feel like it’s slower if anything. Many apps need to index the blockchain to be usable, which means solving both web2 and web3 technical challenges
🌹 Zach Harris 🥀
@zachharris
I wonder if there is an opportunity cost to pre-work from a research standpoint (that could be qualified) that might be worth thinking about…
Noah Bragg 🤝
@nbragg
I’m sure that would help. One of the nice things with blockchain development is the inherited security from using open source code from blockchains. Or using the same code onchain.
a16zcrypto
@a16zcrypto
maybe @eddy or @ncitron.eth can help?
ncitron.eth
@ncitron.eth
I think it depends on the situation. Some products are very difficult to protocolize in a decentralized way. On the other hand, composability make a whole bunch of problems easier since you get to hook into many other protocols for free (although you can argue many centralized APIs do this too)
Jacob
@jrf
Thx for the response 🙏
Is there a forthcoming improvement that you think will reduce the difficulty of *protocolizing* products or is that challenge immovable?
Manuel
@manuelmaccou.eth
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. APIs vs Blockchains. I guess one plus for Blockchains is anything that is onchain automatically has the universal “API-like” connection point. I *think* any EVM compatible chain allows a dev to connect to all apps on that chain in a standardized way. APIs aren’t that simple.
Eddy Lazzarin 🟠
@eddy
This is a difficult question to answer concisely, but the answer is likely to be a combination of lower infrastructural costs (leading to more experimentation), demonstrated examples of successes (this takes years of experiments), and regulatory clarity.
Jacob
@jrf
Thanks for the reply 🙏
That makes sense 💡⚡️
🌹 Zach Harris 🥀
@zachharris
If u replace hire with solution architect, sentiment of quote works for Web3:
“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.” - David Ogilvy
🌹 Zach Harris 🥀
@zachharris
Does @a16zcrypto have an equivalent of G2 or Lumascape to track all of the different StarSystems, and Galaxies that have the greatest likelihood of the highest staying power relative to regulatory conditions in the decentralized building world?
Jacob
@jrf
@atlas summary
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