I never understood how this works. How does a16z, USV, and BlueYard make their money back? That's why I've been hesitant to deal with this stuff because I don't understand the business model.
How do things like privacy policies, terms of service, contracts between parties work?
Because this is a protocol for decentralized trade, and a network to engage in trade, there's really no terms of service or privacy policies that can be enforced between users. They connect to each other completely P2P, the devs or anyone else can't enforce anything between them (and don't even know a transaction is happening).
No awareness by the company and no easy ability to enforce terms before users make me wonder why the heck I'd ever want to try to sell or buy something on that platform. Seems like craigslist but with too high a bar of entry for the good-intentioned non-fraudster non-tech-savvy users.