Meme, belief, symbol system, and cryptographic tribal culture

Author: 0xShadow

It is undeniable that we are still in the early construction phase of the crypto world, but I want to call on the builders of the crypto world that as the process of crypto construction deepens, we need to pay more attention to the construction of crypto spiritual culture. Blockchain technology is not just a specific framework for solving a particular problem, but a comprehensive technological iteration that integrates economics, politics, and culture. It is a bottom-up social transformation, and its significance to human society is no less than that of the Industrial Revolution. Because of blockchain technology, we have for the first time such rich feasibility, autonomy, and true freedom!

Current mainstream blockchain projects are still built around solving a specific problem. For example, Opensea is the biggest beneficiary of the rise of NFTs; they have benefited greatly from this NFT explosion, but essentially it is an internet product. Apart from functionality, their centralized organizational structure and product operation are standard practices of traditional internet projects, establishing moats, consolidating their positions, and ultimately going public. This product has brought many conveniences to the industry, but it does not align with the spirit of crypto and is not the product form that the crypto world ultimately needs.

What the crypto world needs is not just crypto products, but more importantly, the crypto spirit: decentralization, fairness, democracy, cross-national and regional collaboration, inclusivity, and self-motivated evolutionary community organizations!

This organizational form is defined as crypto tribes within sub-tribes. Crypto tribes will form their own cultural narratives and memes, totems, stories, symbolic systems, and crypto narratives, created by community users for the tribe. Some of these will become astonishing epic narratives, and these are becoming the cultural accumulation of the tribe. Some communities are building the future of crypto tribes, driven by the community, constructing asset autonomy, where community participants are creators, with unique community culture, native crypto, and widely disseminated memes, collaborating beyond national and regional boundaries… Crypto tribes seem to be able to create an amazing paradigm!

Beginning: Building Tribes, Coming for Tribes, Leaving for Tribes

Sub-tribes have always contributed to novel discoveries and innovations, and the characteristics of sub-tribes emerge in how they configure freedom and handle conflicts. To some extent, how they accommodate people and manage subsequent chaos facilitates the circulation of good ideas (McNair 2006). The more cultural customs and institutional