Variant:Web3社交堆栈将不断垂直化

Odaily星球日报Published on 2024-06-03Last updated on 2024-06-03

Abstract

越来越多的SocialFi将追求垂直化发展,力图为用户提供更无缝和全面的体验,从而创造新的消费行为和基于关注或社交的资产。

原文标题:《Verticalization of the Web3 Social Stack》

原文作者:Mason Nystrom,Variant

原文编译:Luccy,BlockBeats

编者按:Variant 的投资合伙人 Mason Nystrom 深入探讨了 SocialFi 领域的发展趋势和不同的垂直整合方法。Mason 对交易优先和社交优先两种方法进行了详细比较,并提供了相关实例以支撑观点。文章强调了在不断演进的 SocialFi 生态系统中,构建具有垂直整合设计的应用程序的重要性,并指出了其中的挑战和机遇。

随着加密社交平台和金融游戏的普及,它们的构建方式也在不断演进。我们可以预见到一个趋势,即越来越多的项目将追求垂直化发展,力图为用户提供更无缝和全面的体验,从而创造新的消费行为和基于关注或社交的资产。虽然并非所有的 Web3 社交体验都与金融相关,但支撑加密消费者应用的区块链技术使得新的基于代币激励的行为和数字原生资产能够融入社交体验之中。

目前的 SocialFi 堆栈由四个核心层组成:

· 发现 : 用户发现要购买的内容的地方

· 执行 : 资产的买卖执行地点

· 流动性 : 资产所在和被汇集的地方

· 资产发行 : 资产创建的地方

如今,这个堆栈相当分散,用户发现和社交体验与执行(例如交易)、流动性和资产发行相分离。但随着 SocialFi 领域的扩展,应用程序将继续垂直化关注和市场,以控制用户的社交体验和关注资产的流动性。

SocialFi 应用程序开发者需要拥有 SocialFi 堆栈的多个层,以确保协议的可防御性。关注资产交易(例如执行)和发行是堆栈的通用层——代币发行变得越来越容易,执行功能可以添加到任何吸引用户关注的地方。拥有发现或流动性层将变得越来越重要,因为这些是 SocialFi 堆栈的可防御层,具有强大的网络效应。

Variant:Web3社交堆栈将不断垂直化

在 SocialFi 领域,大多数应用程序在垂直化方面面临着两种选择:

交易优先的方法:建立一个交易所或市场,让用户交易关注资产(例如 Robinhood 的 meme),然后从这个基础上发展成一个社交/发现平台。

社交/发现优先的方法:建立一个社交平台,拥有发现功能,然后在此基础上添加金融元素和基本原语,消费者/关注商是平台的关键利益相关者。

交易优先

任何社交网络或发现平台都面临着巨大的阻力:启动新的社交图谱、激发新的消费行为,并在竞争激烈的关注市场时保持用户参与度。考虑到这些障碍,交易优先的方法可能更容易启动,因为用户对投机的热情有助于克服这些阻力。然而,这种方法面临着更多的竞争,因为相比于社交网络,交易所的启动更加容易,而且一旦达到一定的用户密度,社交网络会保持更多的优势。

从交易优先的方法出发,SocialFi 堆栈的深度垂直化已被证明是有效的,因为交易优先的应用程序内置了关注资产交易的功能。例如,Friendtech 已经成为最具垂直整合性的 SocialFi 应用之一,掌握了整个堆栈的控制权。该应用作为关键发现和独家执行的焦点,并利用了一种本地的金融原语——绑定曲线——该曲线发行具有 Friendtech 应用特定实用性的资产。

新一代的 SocialFi 协议也在垂直整合 SocialFi 堆栈。例如,像 Pump 和 Ape Store 这样的 meme 币发行和发现平台,允许用户轻松在绑定曲线上部署一个 meme 币。这使用户可以直接从绑定曲线购买代币,而不必等待有人将流动性注入 DEX 或流动性池。尽管一些由 Pump 启动的 meme 币执行和发现可以在其他平台上进行——比如 DEX Screener 和 Twitter——但像 Pump 这样的协议仍然为新推出的代币提供了独特的社交发现体验和执行平台。

社交优先

在历史上,社交优先的 SocialFi 方法已经通过 Twitter、Farcaster 和 Telegram 等方式取得了成功,还通过 DEX Screener 和 CoinGecko 等市场终端取得了成功。其中许多应用程序试图向下整合堆栈,提供代币的执行(例如交易),但尚未完全倾向于提供定制的专有交易体验。

唯一的例外是 Telegram,它成功地整合了社交金融体验。然而,Telegram 的用户体验有限,尽管 degen 们选择它是因为方便,但市场上还有更多类似 Robinhood 的体验的空间,这些体验提供无缝的交易用户体验、简单的入门体验和零佣金交易等零售友好功能。此外,像 Farcaster frames 和 casts 以及 Lens open actions 这样的新原语进一步在这些社交优先的网络中促进了新型金融交易。

最后的思考:发表意见

通过独特的方式来思考应用程序的货币化和金融化对其应用程序的影响,建筑者们可以创建引人注目的社交金融游戏和网络。交易优先的方法更容易,因为它不一定依赖于创造新的消费行为;人们已经想要交易关注了。但一个社交优先的方法,其中一个平台控制眼睛,从历史上看比一个只控制订单(例如交易)的方法更具有防御性。社交优先或发现优先方法的主要目标是快速迭代,测试新的消费者行为和社交金融动态,直到用户展示出潜在发展成大型社交网络的显性偏好。我相信,最成功的应用程序将拥有具有观点的、垂直整合设计,为新型资产或市场创造液体市场,或者促进新的消费行为的市场。

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