I’ve seen a lot more sweetshops around recently. Specifically, these Victorian-themed tuckshops and sweet connoisseurs, plucked from two hundred years prior and plopped in the middle of a high street that doesn’t quite know how to welcome its new tenant. One of the sweet shops near me plasters ‘Toys, Trains, Treats” on dated storefront panelling; it’s the shop you thought your grandparents went to when they were young, except the steam trains on sale are battery powered.

In solving the problems that hold web3 back today, we risk creating new problems that could be even bigger.

Happy new year — in this inaugural post of 2022, I want to scope out the landscape for the ideas I’d like to cover over the next twelve months, with more detail about the concepts that I’m going to focus on.