Where the world's exciting thinkers, technologists, entrepreneurs and interested minds meet to explore decentralization, the new Open Internet, and its real-world adoption.
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The Future Of The Open Internet
We want to celebrate those shaping the future of the Open Internet and collectively pause, reflect, and initiate constructive dialogues around its future and real-world application.
This is a revolution in its truest sense
Businesses overusing the term have hollowed out its truemeaning. However, blockchain is different, it’s a revolution in its original sense and genuinely rejects the status quo to promote systemic change of foundational ideas, concepts, and mechanics.
However, this is not a technological revolution. It’s the technical pairing of a uniquely human concept that stretches back millennia. Thousands of years ago, Moses decentralised his governance over the lost Israelites by constructing a council of elders. In 2008, we saw the decentralization of finance with the advent of Bitcoin. Fast forward to today and we’re seeing the human need to defend our systems and infrastructures with decentralised technology.
Blockchains protect us from ourselves
Whenever there has been technology and innovations with capital throughout history there has also been avarice and inequality. Human instinct is not always a positive force for humanity.
Blockchain, DAOs, and web3 can become the counterweight to shelter us from the worst sides of human intention - to keep us from biting the apple that removed us from Eden.
The systems we’re building are born adversarial. Distil that to its simplest form - to design decentralised systems that protect us and our interests without succumbing to corruption.
The narrative is changing. It’s much more than making a buck, it’s a cultural shift to value-first transformation which we echo in our own investments at Eden Block. We back the visionary, most technically ambitious, that simplify the truly complex with deep integrity.
Every founder we’ve ever written a cheque for holds a relentless vision to transform the world for the better. That human concept of what we seek to achieve has to permeate through the deeply technical discourse that surrounds and sometimes shrouds this industry.
Changing the script
Teams need to articulate their vision in a way that resonates with real-world usage and everyday people and that’s more important than the product itself.
Narratives are a growth vehicle for everything you will try to build in this space. Without them and a proper translation, you’ll stay confined to the pockets and corners of crypto.
Perception of value is created from good narrative and this space is being defined by elites, gatekeepers, and often oppositional outsiders. However, if you don’t like or agree with the conversation you can always change it.
This is only the beginning
Decentralisation is a global movement and everyone can play a meaningful role. This revolution needs active leaders, not passive arbiters, to ensure it stays true to its course.
The more stakeholders we have in these networks with skin in the game, the stronger the more defensible the movement becomes. The apple is not centralisation, but the misinformation around memes, fads, fantastical elements of blockchain that hijack the narrative and dilute its true intentions.
This won’t be a quiet revolution, it won’t be quick, and it won’t be without friction. It's only the beginning, but everything will change.
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