Learning course Outline
- Intro: the centralization problem
- Framing the problem:
- Weaknesses in centralization: lack of trust/transparency, risk of failure and the fallout, censorship
- Rent seeking and value extraction business models
- The evolution of web: Web1, Web2, Web3
- The Web3 Values: decentralization, ownership, transparency, censorship resistance
- Economics: from bartering to programmable money
- A brief history of money from bartering to the 2008 financial crisis
- Blockchain and the birth of Bitcoin
- Ethereum, programmable money and the rise of Token Economy
- The Tech side of Web3
- How Blockchain works
- Smart Contracts and different types of tokens
- Creating a web3 identity (create a wallet, private and public keys, sending tokens)
- Safety measures to interact in web3
- DAOs
- What is a DAO
- When decentralization matters (and when it does not)
- Practical application: use cases analysis
- How DAOs work: the governance process
- Setting up your own DAO (practical module)
- Setting up a DAO
- Creating your first proposal
- Debating your first proposal
- Voting on proposals