Onchain Code Shifts Control from Corporations to Users
Onchain Code Shifts Control from Corporations to Users
🔓 Who Really Owns...
When code lives onchain, the power dynamic fundamentally changes:
- Publishers can't revoke your license - your access is permanent
- Studios can't delete your progress - your data persists independently
- Corporations can't extract your value - you maintain ownership
Onchain games eliminate traditional middlemen. There's no publisher tax, no platform gatekeeper, and no policy update that can destroy an entire economy.
The game becomes a public protocol where players and builders connect permissionlessly. New clients, modes, and markets can emerge while sharing the same underlying state.
Value capture shifts to the edges of the network rather than concentrating at the center. Peer-to-peer loops replace corporate extraction.
This represents a fundamental realization: the current system of digital ownership and control doesn't have to work this way. Users can reclaim what should have been theirs from the start.
17/ When the code is onchain: ‣ Publishers can't revoke your license ‣ Studios can't delete your progress ‣ Corporations can't steal your value You take back what always should have been yours. Every revolution begins with a realization: 'It doesn't have to be this way.'
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