2/ The reading list is primarily based on blog-post content we've published on the Stanford Blockchain Review, and intends on providing a crash-course overview of the most important topics in crypto
1 - Why Crypto? What is Web3 about?
2 - What do Crypto Apps look like in our daily lives?
3 - What does Decentralization look like? Case studies in DeFi, DePIN, and DAOs
4 - What infrastructure powers these apps?
5 - Where are we today?
4/ We hope that through this open-source resource, we can better inform the world on what crypto actually means, holding true to the @StanfordCrypto mission of bridging together education, research, and industry.
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1/ Today, the artist’s sovereignty is under the full-scale assault of modern tech monopolies. Big Tech platforms, derive their entire business model from divorcing content value from content creator.
2/ Copy-paste has probably stifled more artistic progress than all the purges and executions of the 20th century. In this new world of digital serfdom, artists’ livelihoods have been starved away by Internet giants’ near-zero marginal cost of duplicating digital assets.
3/ With the advent of modern artificial intelligence systems even the creation of art itself has been reduced to an engineering problem. DALLE 2 produces hyper-realistic outputs that to the untrained eye would easily pass for a professional artist’s work.
1/ People often say that in Web 3, everyone can create their own currency. That’s true, but here’s the catch: not everyone can create their own liquidity.
2/ Any commodity can have liquidity: stocks, bonds, real-estate, gold, cigarettes, and NFTs included. Because of this, any commodity can be a currency, and there is no fine line between a commodity and a currency.
3/ While some items may be practically better suited to be currencies than others (fungibility, portability etc.), but there is no theoretical reason why any commodity cannot be a currency – provided it has enough liquidity.