I’m on my phone and don’t have a ton of time but figured I’d take a shot at addressing why I think we are indeed worth supporting…
The value we bring to the dapper ecosystem is offering tools / features that dapper cannot or prefers not to offer. Loans, sub $1 sales (not a technical challenge but certainly an aesthetic one), rentals, AD offers, bulk listing, etc. Importantly, Flowty is also the answer to the questions ‘what happens to my collectibles if dapper goes under? If I’m reliant on Dapper to persist for my collectibles to survive (for all intents and purposes), what do I actually own?’ as the only reasonable place to view / buy / sell Flow NFTs in the absence of dapper.
From Flow’s perspective, Flowty is important in that we offer essential services to nft collections that want to focus on content / community. Without flowty, any prospective nft creator must now also be committed to building out a full featured marketplace and, to the extent interested, loan / rental platform. In other words, the absence of Flowty makes Flow far less appealing to builders. All existing nft collections that don’t have a marketplace are left with nowhere to buy / sell. If Flow is ready to write off those collections and communities or build out their own solution, they can of course do so. But there is already a solution available.
Additionally, I believe Flowty as a permissionless, trustless, and decentralized platform is an important option to have for collectors with a crypto ethos who prefer not to rely on a centralized marketplace solution and to use non-custodial wallet options.
Finally, we are fully built to support non-dapper wallet transactions. Dapper balance + dapper wallet are both incredible innovations with regard to ease of onboarding but are extremely limiting in terms of ensuring a flow of liquidity among 3rd party platforms. For an ecosystem rolling out defi initiatives, there are clear benefits to fewer guardrails and steps to moving liquidity around the ecosystem and from nft-centered platforms to defi platforms. There are also minimal use cases for the native FLOW token outside of Flowty loans and Flowty’s non dapper wallet marketplace.
Hopefully this all makes sense. Shooting from the hip and most definitely leaving some things out. You may read this and conclude Flowty is still not worth it but hopefully it at least provides an alternative perspective
I love Flowty and use it but if Dapper or Flow is the only life raft they will let it sink. Why would Dapper subsidize a secondary market that canibalizes its transaction revenue? Dapper should adjust the MP to allow sub $1 listings. It’s the only way. Othe projects are SOL.