TLDR Crypto · MISCELLANEOUS

DISRUPTING NETWORK PLATFORM COMPANIES

patricklung.co6 min read

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

This article discusses vampire attacks as capital-efficient go-to-market strategies that reward usage of other pre-existing platforms with tokens. This reward system, exemplified by NFT marketplace Blur, has proven successful in overcoming the network cold-start problem. The author hypothesizes about the possibility of using this strategy to disrupt non-crypto platforms, provided they satisfy certain conditions, and provides examples of disruptable platforms like Chess.com, Stack Overflow, and Tinder.