Play-Full Futures

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Dear friends,

A number of people who have been through Kernel have gone on to participate in both buidlguidl (make lots of things regularly) and Radar (surface great signals and do deep research).

So, I’m keen to gather Kernel, buidlguidl, and Radar together into an epic joint mission to build more play-full futures.

  1. Radar have written the report: https://www.play.radardao.xyz/
  2. BuidlGuidl have been iterating trough various versions of how to organise. The current iteration looks like very particular streams to curated people, and trying to grow the set of curators in order to get the best buidlers paid for buidling good things. Examples here and ours here.

This part of the (infinite) game is straightforward:

  1. I will invite a number of people within or around Kernel who can build cool things to join the stream.
  2. Kernel will put 5 ETH into the stream, which will be matched by buidlguidl.
  3. We’ll use the “play-full futures” report as the theme for what to build.

The theme is intentionally broad: you can build what you like and get paid. That said, if you’re looking for some directions, Kernel-specific suggestions include:

  1. gate stuff with Honour so that more people interact with it and consider what money really is.
  2. improve the interface for Honour itself - ENS names, better components, better QRs on mobile, helpful tooltips etc etc.
  3. work on perpetual scholarships - split these out from the dependence on a token, make the DeSchool contract standalone, move it over to foundry or hardhat, convince people like Bankless to consider using it.
  4. generalize signature economies so that anyone can use it easily without a lot of technical skill.

I also happen to like a lot of the buidls on the buidlguidl website, especially those that experiment with new and interesting standards:

  1. LSD with ERC 4626
  2. multisig.lol
  3. Check out all the builds here to get other ideas.

There’s great room for exploration here. Comment below with what you want to build and you could suddenly find yourself swimming in this newly opened stream.

The question is: What can you create that will guide us toward more play-full futures?

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Hey @cryptowanderer ,

Great idea! Curious, as to when you are thinking to begin this effort?

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@cryptowanderer , as you know, I am a member of both Kernel and RADAR and am in conversation with them about developing use cases for the emergence of wisdom-guided Collaborative Hybrid Intelligence (CHI) in a network of human and AI agents.

How could exploring that possibility in a Kernel-specific context of your idea look like?

How much effort it may take for a total crypto-noobie, like myself to learn all the necessary crypto jargon and crypto administration practices?

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I’m hoping that it will start end of this week/beginning of next @tayyab :pray: but it will be an ongoing kind of thing, you don’t need to be in right at the beginning to be eligible for participation.

@Technoshaman I think it might be quite a steep learning curve on this particular experiment, because I want to focus specifically on building stuff/writing code in this context. There will be other opportunities for different kinds of contributions as we gather more momentum.

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I have been toying with the idea of “boring” of late. Boring seems to have a negative connotation, i.e. something mundane and isn’t exciting. But another facet of something boring is that many people find it comforting in a way. Because there is something familiar about it. For example, for me, going to the grocery store is an example of this. It’s a repetitive task, but I always enjoy it as I know to some degree what to expect, but there’s always something new.

How does this translate to blockchain and web+?

Well, with new chains and standards, and strides being taken every day, I feel that “infrastructure” is the closest to boring. Infrastructure is something that can be built that fits the larger ethos of Kernel, Play-Full Futures and is something that provides a bit of calm but not in a way that stifles innovation.

What and where this looks like, is something that I would have to see as to what has been built, what needs building and then scale it to my capabilities.

Thoughts? Is my interpretation of this endeavor here correct? Any feedback is welcome :pray:

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I love this and would be very happy to add you to the stream to investigate “boring” infrastructure for play-full futures: it’s such a perfect balance :heart:

DM me an address :wink:

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