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Web3

Immersion

Immersion Lvl 1: What is Web3
  • [2018] 📖 Making Sense of Web3 [Josh Stark]
  • [2021] 📖 Web3 ELI5: What is Web3? [Mason Nystrom]
  • [2021] 📖 The Web 3.0 Revolution [Discourse]
  • [2021] 📺 What Exactly is Web3? [Juan Benet]
  • [2018] 📖 Understanding web3 — A user controlled internet [Emre Tekisalp]
  • [2021] 📖 What is web3? The decentralized internet of the future [FCC]
  • [2021] 📖 Web3: in a nutshell [Eshita]
  • [2021] 📕 The Web3 Landscape [A16Z]
  • [2021] 📖 Web3 Explained, by Cooper Midroni [Part 1] [Part 2]
  • [2021] 📖 Overcoming Web3 Bias [Nathan Baschez]
  • [2021] 📖 The Father of Web3 Wants You to Trust Less [Wired]
Immersion Lvl 2: Web3 Motivations
Immersion Lvl 3: Diving deeper into Web3
  • [2021] 🧵 What's next in Web3 [Chris Dixon / A16Z]
  • [2021] 🧵 What’s next for the creator economy & its intersection with web3? [Li Jin]
  • [2021] 📖 Reputation in Web3 [Dark Star]
  • [2021] 📖 The Internet As Your Resume [0X503F]
  • [2021] 📖 Notes on Web3 [Robin Sloan]
  • [2021] 🧵 The origins of Web3 [Mason Nystrom]
  • [2021] 📖 The Wu-Tang Web 3.0 Clan [Jeff Dorman]
  • [2021] 🧵 Protocols creating Web3 [Mason Nystrom]
  • [2021] 📖 Security Networks: Social Networks on Web3 [Justine]
  • [2021] 📖 Interoperability (?) [Forefront]
  • [2021] 📖 Web3’s Great Gambit: Incentives for the Almost Impossible [Dark Star]
  • [2021] 📖 Chain Reactions: How Creators, Web3 & Metaverse Intersect [Digital Native]
  • [2021] 📖 An engineer's hype-free observations on Web3 (+ its possibilities) [PSL]
  • [2021] 🧵 Next gen of consumer entertainment will be built on web3 [Mercedes Bent]
  • [2021] 📖 Emergent Apps & The Great Rebundling [Future Proof]
  • [2021] 📖 Today’s Web3 Communities: The McMansions of the Internet [Dark Star]
Immersion Lvl 4: Web3 Growth
  • [2021] 📖 The Web3 Growth Playbook [Lattice]
  • [2022] 📖 GTM in Web3: New Mindsets, Tactics, Success Metrics [A16Z]
  • [2022] 📖 Progressive Decentralization: A Playbook for Building Crypto Apps [A16Z]
  • [2022] 📖 The Web3 playbook for brands [Ana Andjelic]
Immersion Lvl 5: Looking at the future
  • [2022] 📖 Web3 vs Everybody [Regan Bozman]
  • [2022] 📖 The missing link between Web2 and Web3: Custody [A16Z]
  • [2022] 📖 Europe’s Third Way is Web3: Why the EU Should Embrace Crypto [SLS]
  • [2022] 📖 Lost in Wonderland [Ran Mo]
Immersion Lvl 6: Criticisms
  • [2022] 📖 Web3 is going great [W3IGG]
  • [2022] 📖 At SXSW, A Pathetic Tech Future Struggles to Be Born [Vice]
  • [2022] 📖 Tech leaders are delusional if they think Web3 will give power back to the people [Scott Galloway]
  • [2022] 📖 The Edited Latecomer's Guide to Crypto [Molly White et al]
  • [2022] 📖 The New York Times Has a Crypto Blindspot [Stephen Diehl]
  • [2022] 📖 NFTs, Crypto, Web3 Are MLM schemes for a new generation [WSJ]
  • [2022] 📖 EE380 Talk [DSHR]
  • [2022] 📖 Web3 is the future, or a scam, or both [Vox]
  • [2022] 📖 The Great Web3 Drama 🤺 [Startup Riders]
  • [2022] 📖 How Crypto Became the New Subprime [NYT]
  • [2021/2022] 📖 Of Smoke and Mirrors (by Jordi Alexander) [Part 1] [Part 2]
  • [2022] 📖 Web3 [Scott Galloway] / Rebuttal: The Web3 Debate [Not Boring]
  • [2022] 📖 Who is Web3 Really Good for? [Margins]
  • [2022] 📖 Bitcoin, crypto and Web3 teeter on the brink of a $2T bubble [The Times]
  • [2022] 📖 It's not still the early days [Molly White]
  • [2022] 📖 Web 3.0 Is Too Complicated [CoinDesk]
  • [2022] 📖 Opinion: Is Web3 a Scam? [Stack Diary]
  • [2022] 📖 My first impressions of Web3 [moxie]
  • [2022] 📖 Web3 is not the Early Internet [Quentin Baker]
  • [2022] 📖 A not so gentle intro to Web3 [Koos Looijesteijn]
  • [2021] 📖 The web starts on page four [Christian Heilmann]
  • [2021] 📖 The Web3 Fraud [Usenix]
  • [2021] 📖 The two biggest critiques of Web3, analyzed [Divinations]
  • [2021] 📖 Is Web3 the future or a scam? Depends who you ask [Protocol]
  • [2020] 📖 Web3 is a stupid idea [Tim Daubenschütz]

Other

Trends
2022
  • [2022] 📖 Tales from crypto: A billionaire meme feud threatens industry unity [NYT]
2021
  • [2021] 📖 We live in an age of discovery at the dawn of Web 3.0 [Fortune]
  • [2021] 📖 Why are all crypto people suddenly talking about Web3? [Slate]
  • [2021] 📖 Reddit co-founder and Solana Ventures launch $100M initiative for Web3 social media [CoinDesk]
Reports
  • [2022] 📕 How to Build a Better Internet: 10 Principles for World Leaders Shaping the Future of Web3 [A16Z]
  • [2021] 📕 The Web3 Landscape [A16Z]
  • [2021] 📕 How to win the future: an agenda for the 3rd gen of the internet [A16Z]
  • [2021] 📕 Why Web3? (Q3 2021) [Consensys]
Tools