The Missing Middle in Blockchain Industry
summary
Industry has poured about $25 billion into protocols but only about $5 billion from traditional VC and most dapps have <100 daily users. Developers hit concrete gaps: hard asks to learn Solidity and Truffle, no production-grade security and monitoring, no application management or SLAs, and poor consumer flow requiring Metamask browser plugins. The claim is that middleware — hosted nodes, mobile SDKs, security ops, paid support and specialized tooling — must be built and productized to move from experimentation to mainstream adoption.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08Protocol challenges and missing middle
- 2:34Why mainstream adoption hasn't happened
- 3:59Blockchain platform fragmentation
- 5:23Developer struggles in blockchain
- 8:30Testing and security gaps for apps
- 9:53User experience barriers
- 11:17Defining the missing middle
- 13:01Middleware stack evolution
- 14:46Middleware's critical role
- 15:28Call to action for innovators
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