“Crypto is really kind of like a laboratory for lots of disciplines to experiment in.” @Tim_Roughgarden on what makes blockchains uniquely useful for research: “If you study financial markets and you have an idea to make Wall Street better, that’s going to be pretty hard to even experiment with.” “But if you have an idea for a new kind of decentralized finance and a DeFi protocol, go ahead and deploy it. No one’s stopping you.” “You can try out ideas in the wild that you would never be able to in a more traditional application domain.” @MTSlive @sophiadew(a16z crypto)