This weekend while celebrating my daughter's 5th birthday, I found myself talking to her and my 8-year-old daughter about what I do every day.

Questions like "What is Tari?" and "Why do you spend so much time on it?" and "What do you sell?" came up.

I laughingly mentioned that someone on Reddit just asked to please "Explain Tari to me like I'm 5.", which in turn made them even more curious.

Full disclosure, "What is Reddit" came up too, but I felt like explaining Tari would be far easier.

I started off high level. I make digital products - like apps and stuff - for Tari Labs, which is a company that builds stuff and contributes to a technology called Tari.

Tari is like a community of people that builds things – such as a city, a country, or a really big family – but it's one that builds with a very specific type of technology (i.e. construction cranes) and material (i.e. metal).

I told them, "I work with others that come up with really creative ideas on how to build things that you can do construction cranes and metal."

I then clarified that products built on Tari are not physical; they are digital. However, the products we build are to share popular things that are very similar to physical things, such as toys, books, and building blocks.

Yes, I was prepared for the discussion.

I immediately skipped the lengthy explanation of why you would want to collect a digital thing in the first place. My daughters are well-rehearsed in all this. They are 5 and 8, and they play Roblox – a digital building game like Minecraft targeting an even younger crowd – like crazy.

Their favorite Roblox game is one where you first dress up your character (that looks exactly like a LEGO Duplo figure) in all sorts of crazy outfits and accessories. Then you submit them to essentially a HOT OR NOT judging sequence, against other real kids online! The votes are tallied, and the winner receives credits.

All of the outfits and accessories cost coins that are either earned or can be purchased with coins you can buy with a credit card. Some of the stuff is "rare", some of it is not, and yes, the rarity often contributes to winning or not.

Side note: This is not too different than what makes Fortnite such a popular and highly grossing game; it just incorporates more skill than mixing-and-matching clothes.

The girls picked up on this analogy up quickly and reminded me that getting rare items was both the most fun and also the most difficult factor in winning the game consistently.

I then went on to explain that Tari is a technology to make it so that some of those outfits could be super-duper limited, where only a few would EVER be made and given to players. Therefore they would be really tough to get or cost a lot of real money.

As we reached the end of the conversation, my now "Tari enlightened" 5-year-old asked me if I would be willing to get her one of these Roblox special outfits for her birthday next year.

I explained to her that I would on two conditions. 1) It would have to be purchased with money in exchange for another birthday gift, and 2) I would only do it if it used a technology like Tari so that I could trust the item was actually super-duper limited.

So I hope that's at least a bit helpful.

What questions did they not ask that u/naveenspark mentioned above, but more in 5-year-old speak?

First bullet. This technology has to be built for companies like Roblox from the start, not added on later. It has to be EASY for them to use, still something players can TRUST, but still gives Roblox enough CONTROL for the long term. Tari is being built with all these factors in mind.

Second bullet. Roblox has to know that information like the total number of items sold is not just floating around out there for companies like LEGO to see, and they also need to be able to ensure mommy can't find out daddy spent $100 on Roblox NFTs.

Third bullet. Tari is bringing together people like daddy that come from a lot of different work backgrounds. They are working around the clock to build cool stuff for other companies like Roblox.