Just a thought…

When Crypto Kitties came on the scene, it instantly drew more people to ETH because their goal was to create something fun that people can do with crypto. Many people learn and get attracted to new tech not through “academic” experiences where someone tells you what to do but rather through practicing and trying it on something that’s fun.

As an example, the non-technical members on team Crypto Sportz struggled for a long time with understanding blockchain and how it works or is used. At some point we just gave everyone a bit of ETH, asked to download MetaMask and told them to go buy some kitties. Voila.

Which leads us to a slightly self serving point. The foundation could do a bit better at helping small dapps with exposure, especially ones that have the ability to attract usecases that are common in the less technical circles. Our usecase is around enabling sports fans to enter into small decentralized bets with one another. If one fan gets on it because there is a game with his favourite football/soccer team, he can explain to another fan/friend how to use it as well . And thus we create collective awareness and actual use beyond HODLing. Having someone’s grandma sit on a bunch of ETH as an “investment” isn’t really adding more people to the ecosystem.

Let’s get some real people using real dapps. That’s how we make it mainstream. In our humble opinion.