community economics
Exploration of the economic dynamics within online and Web3 communities, focusing on incentives, value exchange, coordination mechanisms, and how collective behavior shapes sustainable or extractive ecosystems.
InfoFi: When Community Engagement Turns Into Exploitation
InfoFi promises to reward participation, but often turns community engagement into unpaid labor. This article explores how incentive misalignment, vague rewards, and psychological traps quietly exploit users — and how both investors and builders should rethink participation models.