we need to be honest that the top problem for crypto apps is unsolved every app either: 1. makes money by building for whales to extract 2. makes no money by not building for whales at all consumers have no chance of making money either way. but i think there's a solution. price curves. this is what i've been working on at @jokerace_io for the past few months, and i'll give a simple explanation in terms of voting—even though it could apply to any product. > a retail user buys 100 votes on an entry for $100 with high conviction. > other users buy votes on other entries. let's say they spend an additional $1000. > a whale comes in at the end and buys 100 votes on the first entry for $1000. > the retail user and whale split the rewards, which total $2100. they each get $1050, and each profit. (i'm leaving aside hurdle rates and rank distributions for the sake of easy math.) notice that the retail user has taken on higher risk and return. they have a 9500% ROI while the whale has a 4.7% ROI. but each benefit. and what's most significant is that the whale isn't simply helping the retail user to earn. the whale is *directly subsidizing the retail user* while also earning themselves. the whale can only gain by supporting the minnow. of course, in reality, the math can get more complicated. a retail user will get ROI from the whale supporting them *as well as* ROI from people supporting other entries, and one ROI may be lower than the other. the extent of the price curve, duration, and shape of curve can all impact these....