#9 - Economics of Self-Sovereign Identity and the Future of Cryptoeconomics with Stepan Gershuni

During this conversation, we discuss

• The history and business models of each evolution of the internet to-date: Web 1.0 - Web 2.0 - Web 3.0;
  
• How web3 might require a regulatory protocol layer;
  
• The different ways for SSI to gain adoption: (1) through adoption by web 2.0 companies, and (2) by building new models from scratch to displace Web 2.0 companies;
  
• How economic inefficiencies can be used to create business use cases and propel the adoption of SSI as a better way of doing things;
  
• How we can use SSI to create completely new paradigms that are unimaginable today with the business models and social landscape we know;
  
• How Cryptoeconomics can be used to increase the value of Verifiable Credentials within a decentralized ecosystem;
  
• What are Pipe vs Platform business models and where does SSI fits in.

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Stepan Gershuni is the Lead Product Manager at Affinidi, Founder of Credentia (SSI for education in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) and also as a hobby runs the Crypto-economics Research Group, a meetup for all things decentralized/web3.

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