The Best Articles in Web3 / Blockchain
The most useful articles and videos in Web3 / Blockchain from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Web3 / Blockchain Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Web3 / Blockchain by Refind users in 2023 so far.
Videos
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People Don't Find DAOs, DAOs Find Them w/Jon Hillis
On this episode of Rehash, we’re talking with Jon Hillis, Co-Founder of Cabin DAO. Cabin DAO is a community for web3 creators and an experiment in decentrali...
The Wonders of Web3 And Much More
Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefi...
SFF 2022 | Next 10 Years: Building the Crypto Economy, Scaling Web3 Innovation & Weathering Storms
SFF 2022 | Next 10 Years: Building the Crypto Economy, Scaling Web3 Innovation & Weathering Storms4 Nov, 12:15 PM at the Global Plenary, SFFThis session will...
What is ...?
New to Web3 / Blockchain? These articles make an excellent introduction.
What Is Web3 and Why Are All the Crypto People Suddenly Talking About It?
Was there a Web2?????
The Curious Beginner's Guide to Crypto
This post “explains like I’m five” core crypto concepts: web 3, blockchain (wallets, consensus), tokens, bitcoin, ethereum, NFTs, and DAOs. Let's go down the rabbit hole together.
What is Web3
The internet is going through a paradigm shift. Learn the differences between Web2 and Web3, and why many developers and companies are shifting their approach in building apps.
Trending
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What Will Happen In 2023
I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central…
Amazon Web Services Users Can Now Launch Avalanche Blockchain Nodes
Ava Labs is joining Amazon’s AWS Marketplace to accelerate institutional adoption of Avalanche and its Subnets technology.
Web3 For Product Managers: A Guide For The Crypto-Curious
Web3 has become one of the most talked-about concepts today. Just try to count how many times “crypto”, “NFTs”, or “DeFi” appear on your Twitter timeline. To many people, Web3 is just another…
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Web3 / Blockchain—all under 10 minutes.
Web3 is Bullshit
If you read tech journalism you’ll probably hear the fuzzy term web3 bandied about in the press. Sprinkled around all these articles are all manner of idealistic and utopian ideas about how we can…
A Guide to DeSci, the Latest Web3 Movement
What to know about the new DeSci movement
Trustless | No Mercy / No Malice
It’s been a bummer summer for crypto. Flagship coins Bitcoin and Ether are at multiyear lows, while lesser coins barrel to zero. Luna went from a market capitalization of $34 billion (“market” and…
Brian Eno on NFTs & Automatism
Shared by 335, including Kelsey D. Atherton, David Weigel, Evgeny Morozov, Pixel, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷
Why Web3 Matters
Web1 (roughly 1990-2005) was about open protocols that were decentralized and community-governed. Most of the value accrued to the edges of the network — users and builders. Web2 (roughly 2005-2020)…
«We are now at the beginning of the web3 era, which combines the decentralized, community-governed ethos of web1 with the advanced, modern functionality of web2.»
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Web3 / Blockchain.
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters.
My first impressions of web3
Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click…
«Also – cards on the table here – I don’t share the same generational excitement for moving all aspects of life into an instrumented economy.»
The Web3 Movement’s Quest to Build a ‘Can’t Be Evil’ Internet
Crypto dreamers want to free us from Big Tech and exploitative capitalism—using only the blockchain, game theory, and code. What could possibly go wrong?
Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How
To guide web3 builders tackling what decentralization means in practice, across several use cases, we cover: the design challenge of web3 decentralization; how builders can use the novel components of…
«“Don’t be evil” is very different than “can’t be evil” when a CEO decides one course or another.»
Thought Leaders
We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Web3 / Blockchain, including:
Naval
I block miserable people.
Balaji
Immutable money, infinite frontier, eternal life. #Bitcoin
Vinny Lingham
Co-founder: @waitroom, @Gyft, @Civickey, @explorersnft, Seed investor @Solana, @Filecoin | @Rendertoken. GP @multicoincap/@newtownpartners 🇿🇦 🇺🇸 #Bitcoin
cdixon.eth
Programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups, web3 @ a16z
Brian Armstrong
Co-founder & CEO at @Coinbase. Creating more economic freedom in the world.
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Web3 / Blockchain, including:
Packy McCormick
Boyboss @ Not Boring: http://notboring.co || Not Boring Capital || Advisor @a16z crypto
Scott Galloway
Product of big government @ucla @ucberkeley | Prof Marketing @NYUStern | Right of Center-Left | #ProfGPod @PivotPod | Strategy Sprint http://section4.com
a16z
we invest in software eating the world http://a16z.com/portfolio/ http://a16z.com/podcasts/
avc
This is the Twitter account for the blog AVC.
freeCodeCamp.org
We're a community of millions of people who are building new skills and getting new jobs together. A 501(c)(3) public charity. Tweets by @abbeyrenn.
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