Accelerating the Web3 Metaverse with Outlier Ventures

This week, Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation) is joined by Jamie Burke, CEO, and founder of Outlier Ventures, an accelerator that supports the development and growth of emerging technologies, including Polkadot. They are currently running a Polkadot accelerator through their Base Camp program.

Burke describes what he set out to achieve by founding Outlier Ventures in the context of the current internet where platforms are vulnerable to state capture and coercion and are biased against users. With these flaws in mind, the pair discuss the optimal Web3 tech stack with ‘sovereignty first’ as a core design principle and building a permissionless financial system in the context of the Metaverse.

The conversation moves on to the Metaverse as a framework for the direction of Web3 where value and identity are transferred and owned by the user. They discuss how to navigate this realm in terms of technology, finance, and culture, and how this aggregate economy would enable a more open metaverse across lots of different use cases, from music to gaming, the creator economy, and more.

Links
Outlier Ventures’ website

Polkadot Base Camp

The Open Metaverse OS

Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff

The Master Switch, Tim Wuh

The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (1997, with James Dale Davidson)

Highlights

00:57 Introduction to Outlier Ventures

07:00 User-centricity in Web3 and the Metaverse

11:55 Use cases of NFTs encourage blockchain adoption

18:00 Creating a Web3 Stack to enable a more open Metaverse

21:05 The success of NFTs in the gaming industry