Mew_Web3
Full-time Web3 I share market thoughts, narratives and macro views about crypto. Not financial advice.
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I prefer utility that gives someone a practical reason to use an asset rather than simply hold it.
That's one detail I noticed in the planned design for $VAN.
@vangrid_io says platform fees paid in $VAN will have a lower rate than card payments.
For requesters using the network continuously, choosing $VAN would therefore be about reducing operating costs.
Utility driven by usage feels very different from utility built around holding.
Good Night 💤. Small Habits, Better Sleep
We don't need to completely change our routine overnight.
Sometimes, better sleep starts with something simple: going to bed a little earlier, keeping a consistent routine, and giving ourselves time to slow down.
That's one reason I find @sleepagotchi interesting, it makes the process of building better sleep habits more engaging.
One small step tonight can become a better habit tomorrow.
A wallet or trading app may already have the users it needs. The harder question is how to create more value from that existing distribution without rebuilding the product around a new service.
This is where the partner model from @agenticscredit gets interesting.
The ACS widget can live directly inside an app, so users stay on the same interface while getting scored and entering the credit funnel.
Meanwhile, handles the downstream infrastructure: scoring, risk controls, credit provisioning, and payouts.
For the partner, there's no separate model to operate or capital pool to manage. The integration can also create a standing revenue stream, with 30% of fees from referred users shared for their lifetime.
I see the appeal here: keep the user relationship on your own surface, add new functionality, and let the underlying infrastructure do the heavy lifting.
Putting something on-chain doesn't mean every piece of data needs to become public.
@vangrid_io Bounties are a good example.
Escrow and settlement are recorded on-chain, allowing funding and payment to be verified. But only a hash of the delivered dataset goes on-chain.
The footage, brief, and contributor identity aren't published there, and the requester receives the reconstructed 3D model rather than the raw video.
Transparency where it helps, privacy where it matters.
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Sometimes the clearest way to understand a token is to look at what it doesn't do.
@vangrid_io is unusually direct about $VAN:
Holding it doesn't generate anything.
It isn't a claim on company revenue, profit or assets.
It doesn't give holders distributions.
And Vangrid Points don't convert into $VAN.
The planned utility is centered around verification collateral, settlement, fees and network access rather than passive ownership.
Good Night 🌙. Tomorrow Starts With Tonight
A new day begins with how we choose to end this one.
Getting enough sleep isn't just about feeling less tired tomorrow. It's about giving our body and mind the time they need to recover.
I like the idea behind @sleepagotchi of making sleep a habit worth paying attention to.
Time to put the phone away and get some rest.
Most referral programs end after the first conversion. The partner model from @agenticscredit takes a different approach.
A platform can embed the Agentic Credit Score directly into its own app, allowing users to be scored without leaving the product experience. Those users can then enter the funnel from there.
The interesting part is the economics behind it: partners receive a permanent 30% share of the fees generated by the users they send.
That creates a much stronger alignment than a one-time referral reward.
gains distribution, partners add a scoring layer to their existing product, and the revenue relationship continues as referred users remain active.
For platforms that already serve traders or autonomous agents, this could turn an existing user base into something more than traffic. It becomes a recurring part of the business model.
Good morning, everyone. 🌞
Have a wonderful day.
A @vangrid_io Bounty doesn't end when someone accepts a video.
That's actually where another part of the process begins.
The winning capture goes through reconstruction and the requester ultimately receives a textured 3D mesh in GLB format.
So the flow is more interesting than simply paying someone for footage:
Real-world request → Capture → Selection → Reconstruction → Usable 3D asset.
The bigger opportunity around @agenticscredit may not stop with individual traders.
Builders can use ACS as an underwriting layer for products of their own. Instead of asking users for traditional collateral, an application can pull an ACS through the API and use real performance to help decide who qualifies, how access is gated, or how credit is priced.
Then constrained capital rails handle another difficult piece: deploying capital within predefined limits without requiring the builder to custody user funds or create the entire risk infrastructure from scratch.
That combination is what interests me.
ACS provides a way to evaluate performance. The rails provide boundaries for deploying capital. Builders decide what kind of product they want to create on top.
It starts to look less like a single trading product and more like infrastructure that other credit applications can build around.
Good morning, everyone. 🌞
I wish you all a wonderful morning.
The contributor side of @vangrid_io Bounties feels quite straightforward.
Find a request you can fulfill, record a new clip or use an existing capture, submit it with a short note, then wait for review.
There's no fee to submit, and multiple contributors can participate.
If your capture isn't selected, the clip still belongs to you.
I like that the contribution itself doesn't disappear just because it wasn't the winning submission.