Big Ideas

Culture is becoming more and more decentralized (not sure if I agree with this)

Keywords

Prediction markets for content curation
Token curated registry

Case Studies

Stargaze

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Introducing Stargaze

Stargaze is a protocol that re-imagines the social network from a purely crypto-native context. The social graph is based on social token ownership. Content, including profile avatars, are NFTs. And curation and moderation are done by DAOs. Stargaze is built as a proof-of-stake Cosmos zone, giving it maximum flexibility in protocol design, interoperability, and scalability right out of the gate.

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Art NFT Curators

$WHALE is a community of NFT curators,

The Graph

ScribeDAO
On the graph, curators can vett data sources
Basic.Space, which sits at the intersection of curation and commerce. By curating not just products but sellers, too, Basic Space celebrates the rugged individualists of tomorrow while simultaneously giving the rest of the world direct access. This is how curation scales.
On Tumblr, this looked like blogs of curated art or photography
Pinterest, we saw well-crafted collections of clothing, recipes, or furniture.
Instagram, curated meme accounts like @thefatjewish and @fuckjerry exploded in popularity due to their easily digestible and shareable content.

Instagram accounts like HIDDEN®, Nineties Anxiety, Furniture Archive, and New Bottega have risen in influence as prominent tastemakers for the next generation of fashion and culture.

Resources

Curators All the Way Down

We can combine the lessons learned from both Gladwell and Andreessen when we look at today's consumer behavior and purchasing culture. The success of social networks like Tumblr and Instagram over the last two decades helped usher in a transformative shift in how people interact with information online.

gabygoldberg.medium.com

Curators Are the New Creators

This piece is now published on Mirror. We're experiencing a content overload . There are an average of 550 new social media users each minute, and over 40,000 search queries on Google every second. The Facebook like button has been pressed 13 trillion times, and each new day welcomes another 682 million tweets.