I hope Kusama can get this attention and change of narrative to become that laboratory that incubates innovation and brews creativity(hence Kreivo). I’m gald Shawn started this discussion because it’s not easy for others to create excitement and momentum.
The focus on privacy is a good start, it helps to have some leading narrative, unfortunately we are in an industry that lives on narratives and hype to attract people as it doesn’t deliver anything else of value for the common folk(let’s all change that!). Absolute privacy for individuals is a must(opposite for organizations), it needs to become a universal standard so we should push for it not with the goal to attract the cypherpunk hackers, but because if there’s a place where the latest ideas/trends/advancements/etc. in Web3 should begin that’s in Kusama.
What’s next? not sure RFCs are needed(Kusama is not the focus of the fellowship anyway), wishes for change are a good way to align the community, but literally anyone with initiative and ideas should just step forward while the rest of us welcomes them in a kind and supportive way, it always surprised me how Kusama governance can be harsher with newcomers than Polkadot.
Here’s my 2025 TODO for example, we can all have a similar north but not everybody has to follow the same path, e.g. while the Parity hub bets on attracting a new wave of (solidity)developers, I am a bit skeptic of that approach and instead bet on going directly after entrepreneurs giving them a ready to use set of tools to get their business up and running(with the missing bits likely filled by AI?).