The Ecosystem Growth Flywheel

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Again — just as it was over a year & a half ago — it’s embarrassing that neither Education nor Standards are considered by IO Marketing to be factors in ecosystem growth. Whole markets (e.g. NFTs) have been built upon Cardano standards (CIPs) and yet somehow these didn’t even warrant a tiny bubble in your diagram.

@benohanlon we went through this quite some time ago:

Human Interoperability Metadata Standards and Ecosystem Maps: Do we need a set of metadata standards and definitions for defining ecosystem roles, relationships and sectors?

@benohanlon it is simply astonishing that you would recommend the Cardano Problem Statement (CPS) as a path forward after leaving the CIP Process entirely off of the ecosystem map. Effectively this made the counterproductive marketing statement — very publicly at the recent convention — that the Cardano community fulfils all these ecosystem roles without a open standards process… or in fact any standards process. This discrepancy is especially strange given that NFTs were offered for this map:…

… and you & your team have had quite enough time to rectify this exclusion before producing another commercially biased, crippled “ecosystem map”. If you truly think that neither Standards nor Education have a role in promoting or sustaining the growth of the Cardano ecosystem, I’d really like for you to explicitly describe the rationale for that here.