[hobofan]

Because the cryptocurrency hype funds/funded most of those projects and/or the prospect of adding a cryptocurrency to the projects causes VCs to fund those projects.

In this particular case Radicle came out of OScoin (or is the new incarnation of it?) and was funded by BlueYard.

[amself]

Right. I was surprised to see they chose to implement social coding after integrating with Ethereum, but it makes sense considering all the hype.

[lftherios]

we are actually working on both problems in parallel. it's just that the skillset required and complexity is very different.