Can Frontends Act as a Moat? | Josh Litchman & Tolks
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What's up, guys? On today's episode, I had a chance to chat with Tolkes and Josh Lichtman. Josh is
the director of ecosystem at Pixels and was previously at Framework and Tolkes' cofounder at Page One. We mainly chatted about how also been performing in the maturation of crypto, specifically with the right of defensive tokens. We also discussed if front ends can act as a moat, the World Liberty Finance partnerships, and lastly, we even took a stab at talking about GameFi, mainly focusing on how we can shape user behavior for financial feedback loops. This episode was a fun one. Please enjoy our conversation. Nothing said on Xerox Research is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tok
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up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of Xerox Research. Today, I'm joined by Tokes and Josh Lichtman, who is the director of ecosystem at Pixels and is also working on some behavioral economic experiments, which I wanna hear a bit about. But, Josh, maybe you wanna give a short introduction of yourself as well as what you've been working on if it's not too stealthy. Yeah.
What's up? Very happy to be here. Yeah. So I guess a little about me is just, like, worked in venture for a bit. Before that, I worked in finance, both fintech and just, like, banking. Most interesting part about crypto is just, like, it's human behavior at scale. So you're adding money to behavior, basically. And, yeah, I think, like, there's definitely some cool stuff we've seen in the last few years, but the thing I'm the most bullish on right now is basically gaming being the conduit for human behavior, for the next, you know, who knows how long. But definitely kind of serves as, like, the
Fantastic. We're gonna talk a bit about that. I think gaming, we talked about a bit as well, gaming podcast, gaming talking about crypto gaming is kind of not very present right now. We're gonna get a bit into that. I think before that, we were talking a bit about alts, all of us, but maybe it's good to let the listeners know a little bit. So we had a few announcements today. I don't wanna talk about general broad market thoughts. I think that's kind of market's a bit dead at this point. But a few things is World Liberty Finance and SUI had an announcement together. This is Thursday, March 6.
No. I mean, the the World Liberty, I tweeted this morning just kind of more about the just kind of the the growing number of coins that are attached to the admin. I think we'll see the market kind of get exhausted of that a little bit. I mean, you had the initial World Liberty partnerships with, Tron, Move, obviously. Move,
and then
SUI. Yeah. And then, I mean, those were you can make the case that they were pretty impactful, that they were backed by the admin. And to me, like, with SUI and, obviously, with the strategic reserve announcement in potentially, including I mean, we'll see tomorrow, potentially including ADA and Sol and ETH. Like, as the list grows longer, it just, in my mind, becomes a little less impactful and m
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