3. Which of these are dApps?
• Bittorrent
• Ethereum
• A Ethereum Smart contract
• Filecoin
• Gems
4. from dApp to crypto
economic dApp
Data Data
Bittorrent Filecoin
Value
(barter) (currency)
5. dApp: a driver-less “company”
… a crypto economy based distributed
application, with support from its human
participants, so powerful that it
displaces a traditional company
(remember Napster nearly killed music industry?)
code + human {
transparent business model
communal ownership
7. Human
service
dApp Services
Peer-to-peer
services
Computing
Service
Immutable storage Insurance
Storage
Computation
Bandwidth
Resource
Redistribution
IoT (sensor etc.)
DEX
Lottery
Prediction Markets
Lending
Derivatives
Digital Property
(e.g. domain)
Large scale
collaborations
8. Human
service
dApp Services
Computing
Service
Resource
Redistribution
DEX
Lottery
STORJ, FileCoin, DNACoin
Toroken
BitshareX
BitPlay
LoanCoin
TruthCoin
PoE, Factom, Docusign
Zennet, Ethereum
Futarchy
NameCoin
LaZooz
Gems
9. Design factors
Self Internal Capital Modification Inter-dApp
Economy
Ledger Reward scheme
Initial distribution
Funding
Counterparty
Notary Chains
Immutable ledger
Service Proof of X,Y,Z
Actors & Roles
Rule
enforcement
& encoding Ethereum
10. New compensation models
… means more public goods
• Classic corp models!
• Product sales (Apple)
• Extra service (Redhat)
• Asymmetric monetization (Google
ads)
!
• Crypto models!
• Seigniorage -> Dev
• Capital gain -> Dev/Token Holders
• Rewards -> Token holders
minority … majority
Limit & Control
majority … majority
Open involvement
11. Token Reward mechanisms
• BitShares X: BTSX burnt upon each txn
• TruthCoin - 2 classes:!
• CashCoin: Store of value
• VoterCoin: Paid for 1/2 all txn fees (in
CashCoin)
12. Key Takeaways
• dApp could replace traditional corporation with
better efficiency and transparency
• design a good dApp economy is key, as in any
biz model
13. Koinify: App Store for dApp!
• High quality & vetted dApp
• Intuitive token purchase + wallet
• Multi sig wallet
• Zero fee during Beta
14. Let’s talk dApp
* Propose your dApp
!
* Blockchain University on dApp coming Dec/Jan
tom@koinify.com