Arcade City was ahead of its time — decentralized ride-sharing before most understood what that even meant.

Still nothing's matched the vision. Most "Web3 solutions" today are just VC-funded wrappers around the same centralized garbage.

Arcade City tried to solve real problems with real decentralization. No middleman rent-seeking. Pure peer-to-peer.

We're drowning in "blockchain projects" that don't solve anything. Meanwhile, ideas like this that could've actually disrupted Uber just... faded.

Maybe the timing was off. Maybe execution. But the core thesis? Still valid.

Ep. #175 with Mayor Bernd Lapp covers the full story if you want the deep dive on what could've been.