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Gaby's Web3 Reading List
I’m more bullish than I have ever been about crypto.
Reflections on the State of Crypto: Q2 2024
The Social App Thesis
New launches (part 1) - private capture, phantom pricing
Flipping the AI coin
I’ve Moved Onchain
What else could memecoins be?
What is crypto good for, anyway?
The end of my childhood
But First, Iterate
Making Sense of Tether on Tron
The Casino on Mars
A deep dive on Solana, a high performance blockchain network
Storing Value in Digital Objects
Reviving Trust in Crypto
Has Crypto Failed?
Why I'm Less Than Infinitely Hostile To Cryptocurrency
Where Are We? Part II: The Cost of Being Right
On Crypto Populism
A Brief History of Digital Fashion
Life After Lifestyle
Defending Privacy in Crypto
A Tale of Two Sports
Letter 30: Creator Royalties in NFTs
In defence of stablecoins
Thrift culture vs. couture in the meta-world
Web3 Identity and the Future of NF.TD
Intern Breakdown #2: MEV
Three counterintuitive lessons from a crypto investoooor
Zora and the Rise of Cryptomedia
Verse: The Hyperexchange Protocol
On Aggregation Theory And Web3
Augmented Reality, the Bridge to the Metaverse
Membership NFTs
Rebundling The Audio Value Chain
Everything You Need to Know About Crypto Regulation
Web3 Social Landscape
Soulbound
You Are What You Own
Optimizing Your Token Distribution
The Mirrortable
Trading the Metagame
Urbit Is for Creators
Endgame
Messari’s Crypto Theses for 2022
What Happens When You’re the Investment
The Ultimate Guide to L2s on Ethereum
Building an Inclusive World of Crypto
America Onchain: “You’ve Got Scale?”
Threshold Digital Signatures
STARKs: Scaling decentralized games
Bowie Bonds as Early Creator Tokens
A Guide to Designing Effective NFT Launches
NFTs 101 — Why NFTs are a generational innovation
web3 starter pack 🏄🏾♂️
Player: A Protocol for Continuous NFTs
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and the Promise of Utopia
Today’s Web3 Communities: The McMansions of the Internet
Minimum Viable Participation in Crypto: Games, Costs, & Accessibility
Worldbuilding with FWB
I'm Quitting Web2 (And So Should You)
Community DAOs
Crypto's Consumer Era
Gimme the Loot!
Rails, Terminals, and Bazaars
Social Token Paradox
Loot
New Internet Logic
Ready Player Everyone
Solana Summer
Mirror and the Tipping Point to Interoperable Content, Social, and Economic Graphs
Becoming a Rolex
The Strongest Crypto Gaming Thesis
Hip Hop, Blogs and NFTs: Unbundling, Remixing and Reintegrating Media
Is This Public? or... Why I'm Leaving Tradfi for Crypto
DAO Landscape
Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood
Keeping up in crypto
Composability is Innovation
Own the Internet: the Bull Case for Ethereum
The Great Online Game
From Winner Take All to Win and Help Win: the Original Vision of the Internet is Making a Comeback
Inventories, Not Identities
The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
How To Survive A Crypto Cycle
A Beginner's Guide to DAOs
NFTs and A Thousand True Fans
The Value Chain of the Open Metaverse
The Presence Shortage
The @balajis Content Archive
Squad Wealth
Ethereum is a Dark Forest
The Ownership Economy: Crypto & The Next Frontier of Consumer Software
Crypto’s Business Model is Familiar. What Isn’t is Who Benefits
Intersectional Social Data
Blockchain Gaming: Separating Signal from the Noise
The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase
Designing Non-Fungible Tokens as Open Ecosystems
Why Decentralization Matters
Ethereum Whitepaper