No friends but the hash function: Descent into the Social Layer

Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 10:06 AM · 24:24

Despite six months research, the central question remains unclear to me: just what is the Social Layer? I will instead bring you on a tour of the competing definitions swirling around in my mind. We will descend, iceberg theory style, from the surface level or seemingly superficial definitions the Social Layer is the community or Crypto Twitter and then fall further into stranger, more esoteric answers, such as the Polycentric Ethereum, transglobal agorist fraternity and, of course, Technopolic cult of the hash function.