ON THE NEXT WAVE OF CREATOR CAPITAL MARKETS: By now, it should be entirely clear that every aspect of the economy will be tokenized and is already beginning to come onchain. Stocks, dollars, everything. The first of these tokenized assets will be the easiest. They already exist, and the market already understands them. Thus, it's not surprising to see stablecoins be first. ("Digital dollars" are easy to understand.) But stablecoins are just the tip of the iceberg. What comes next is why I quit traditional media to jump into crypto — why @coinbase @base and @jessepollak seem to have quadrupuled down on creators — and why the creator economy is about to 1000x. First, let's appreciate the largest content revolution of the last 100 years: Facebook, Netflix, YouTube all unseated traditional media giants to give independent creators a platform. They completely overtook the new "pipes" of content distribution and gave creators new ways to build a following, a brand, a community of followers — and to eventually monetize that attention. But, as these tech giants settled into their newfound glory they became the very thing they once overthrew. They reap the rewards of the attention and trust these creators build up with fans, monetize the attention, and pay creators pennies on the dollar — and only if those creators eventually become large enough to care about. What crypto will now enable for creators is the same thing Bitcoin unleashed in finance. Bitcoin showed the power of dis-intermediation and tokenizing network effects: 1) it created a token to power a network for *money* 2) the value of that token increased as usage of that network increased 3) it delivered that value back to its community This is how Bitcoin won. But as the value of *money* and *attention* merge in this next era of the internet, crypto is giving creators the greatest gift of all time: The ability to dis-intermediate attention — and take their value back from the platforms that exploit them. Creators have already done the hard part (and what took Bitcoin years to do) in building up a community of like-minded followers. Some creators may grow to hundreds of thousands of followers, only to still serve at the mercy of an algorithm that forces them to play the tech giant's game. The next chapter of the creator economy will finally unlock new ways for content creators to scale the value of their communities in ways that have never before been possible and will do so by cutting out intermediaries just as Bitcoin did for money. To the victor that can prove out a sustainable and repeatable way to tokenize creators — the economic engines of the attention economy — ye shall inherit the very base of the $500 Billion creator economy. The next wave of the internet is here, and creators and their fans shall inherit the earth — not tech giants or other intermediaries. And that's a beautiful future to believe in.