🎲Problem Statement

Structural Limits in Web2 Social/Payments

  • Data ownership loss: Relationship/content/transaction data remains platform-locked; users/creators can’t port or reuse it.

  • Asymmetric value distribution: Platform take-rates, ads, and opaque ranking govern payouts; creator contribution is under-measured and under-settled.

  • Global friction: Cross-border fees and settlement delays; fragmented KYC/KYB/risk standards by region.

  • Black-box operations: Discovery, rebates, reconciliation are hard to audit externally; trust is hard to verify.

  • Rising growth costs: CAC keeps climbing in walled-garden traffic; hard to compound across acquisition-retention-conversion.

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