david phelps @divine_economy
David Phelps (@divine_economy) is a writer, investor, and builder known for long-form essays on how crypto reshapes economic coordination — tokenized communities, creator economies, and the theory of on-chain ownership. He is also known as a founder of JokeRace, the on-chain contest platform that turns governance and community decisions into competitive games. His handle fits his output: roughly 77,000 followers read him for ambitious, sometimes contrarian frameworks about what crypto is actually for, delivered in dense threads that get bookmarked and argued over across founder and investor circles.
Why follow
- Framework-level thinking on token economies that goes beyond price and TVL
- A founder's perspective on on-chain governance and community incentive design
- Threads that circulate widely among crypto founders and early-stage investors
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