TL;DR

• Brave Browser’s 'Brave Talk' is launching a feature that allows users to gate access to video chats with NFTs. Revolutionary? No. Welcomed? Yes.

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Web3 is still waiting for its 'killer application' - that 'thing' that'll bring millions/billions of new users into the space.

...and this NFT gated video call feature on Brave browser...well, it isn't that application.

BUT! It is a neat re-imagining of an already proven use case for NFTs: community access.

Right now, most gated online Web3 communities use NFTs to give holders access to a Discord channel.

There's only one problem: Discord SUCKS.

Chatting on the platform is an in-cohesive mishmash of lost notifications and broken threads.

Point is: when we think of 'intimate online communities,' we don't think of Discord.

(Or maybe we're just in the wrong communities, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Either way - small, closed circle video chats are always going to be more intimate than large-audience text based interactions.

And that appears to be what Brave's 'Brave Talk' NFT gated video chats look to achieve: intimate NFT gated video interactions.

Revolutionary? No.

Welcomed? Yes.