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I'm investing and developing a product on Ethereum, not affiliated with the project or developers, so I'll give my sense of things. We're in an era of rapid experimentation. It feels a bit like a shared developer box without any libs or tooling so people are busy working out the best way to approach common problems.

I know it sounds like marketing but it does remind me of the early days of the web, like 95, before the web was serious business. It's all toys and gizmos, the hacker equivalents to water ripple effects, with frameworks coming in to help people build more interesting and production-quality things.

Very basic questions persist such as how to best store large data files (ipfs looking like the clear winner), how to reference them, how to design a currency, how to avoid designs that are too stiff or get stuck in a state where they can't be easily updated, how to express an application model in smart contract form, how to best represent a user account, etc. If that sounds fun, jump in, if you were wanting something that matched the hype, wait a few months. Apps on Ethereum can be as expressive and polished as the apps you use today, and can even be designed just as centralized as the apps you use today, but with properties you would typically think of only belonging to Bitcoin.