2026-01-03 21:25:10

Creator compensation in Web3 has always been hit or miss. Some builders thrive on community support, but others struggle to find sustainable income streams. Interestingly, institutional players with deeper pockets—including state-backed entities—seem to have no shortage of resources to participate and influence network dynamics. It raises an interesting question about incentive alignment in decentralized systems.

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LiquidityWizard

· 01-06 20:56

ngl the math doesn't check out here... if institutions are bankrolling themselves into "decentralized" networks at statistically significant rates, we're basically looking at a 90/10 wealth concentration problem wearing a mask. theoretically speaking, that's just centralization with extra steps lmao

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degenonymous

· 01-06 04:10

Speaking of which, this is the awkwardness of Web3: small creators are starving, while players with institutional and government backgrounds are thriving. What about decentralization?

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0xSoulless

· 01-05 07:06

Creator earnings? Laughable. It's just a cash machine for big institutions and national teams.

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faded_wojak.eth

· 01-04 06:41

Basically, Web3 creator compensation is just a gamble—winners eat meat, losers drink soup. When institutions and national capital come in, they directly crush everything. Is this still called decentralization? That's hilarious.

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TokenCreatorOP

· 01-03 21:53

Big players have so much money that it's burning their hands, while small creators are struggling. This is the true picture of Web3 right now.

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BearMarketNoodler

· 01-03 21:52

It seems that the compensation mechanism in Web3 is a false proposition... Small creators rely on community charity, while institutions have long been dominated by capital games.

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PrivateKeyParanoia

· 01-03 21:45

Basically, it's big players eating the meat and small investors drinking the soup. Is this called decentralization?

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LiquidationSurvivor

· 01-03 21:45

Basically, retail investors get cut, institutions eat the pie—that's the true picture of Web3 right now.

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MemeCoinSavant

· 01-03 21:40

ngl the incentive alignment thing is so fundamentally broken rn... like we're literally watching state actors just casually outbid organic communities lmao

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Hash_Bandit

· 01-03 21:33

ngl the incentive alignment thing's been bugging me since the early days... like we're literally watching the same centralization patterns from mining pools play out again but w/ different actors. institutional money always finds a way to tilt the hash rate, y'know?

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