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Web3 is still waiting for its ‘killer application’ – that ‘thing’ that’ll bring millions/billions of new users into the space.
…and this NFT gated video call feature on Brave browser…well, it isn’t that application.
BUT! It is a neat re-imagining of an already proven use case for NFTs: community access.
Right now, most gated online Web3 communities use NFTs to give holders access to a Discord channel.
There’s only one problem: Discord SUCKS.
Chatting on the platform is an in-cohesive mishmash of lost notifications and broken threads.
Point is: when we think of ‘intimate online communities,’ we don’t think of Discord.
(Or maybe we’re just in the wrong communities, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Either way – small, closed circle video chats are always going to be more intimate than large-audience text based interactions.
And that appears to be what Brave’s ‘Brave Talk’ NFT gated video chats look to achieve: intimate NFT gated video interactions.
Revolutionary? No.
Welcomed? Yes.
