The Definite Web3 Reading List
by 51 Insights / Updated: June 2024 Unsure where to start? Start here: * ⭐️ Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto * Ethereum whitepaper, Vitalik Buterin * The Meaning of Decentralization, Vitalik Butterin * Why Decentralization Matters, Chris Dixon * The Sovereign Individual, Davidson & Rees-Mogg * A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, Eric Hughes * ⭐️ We Have Built the Foundations for the Next Supercycle, and It Has Begun, Joe Lubin * ⭐️ 1984, George Orwell * Blockchains as a Foundation for a New
Last updated February 22, 2023
by 51 Insights / Updated: June 2024
Unsure where to start? Start here:
- ⭐️ Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto
- Ethereum whitepaper, Vitalik Buterin
- The Meaning of Decentralization, Vitalik Butterin
- Why Decentralization Matters, Chris Dixon
- The Sovereign Individual, Davidson & Rees-Mogg
- A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, Eric Hughes
- ⭐️ We Have Built the Foundations for the Next Supercycle, and It Has Begun, Joe Lubin
- ⭐️ 1984, George Orwell
- Blockchains as a Foundation for a New Social Order, Multicoin Capital
- Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk History
- Models for Scaling Trustless Computation, Multicoin Capital
- An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks, Linda Xie
- The Crypto Story, Matt Levine
- Chris Dixon and Packy McCormick on the future of crypto, The Economist
- Crypto Mega Thesis, Multicoin Capital
- ⭐️ But how does Bitcoin actually work?, 3blue1brown
- ⭐️ Digital Gold, Nathaniel Popper
- The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous
- Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos
- What is bitcoin and why does it matter?, Andreas Antonopoulos
- ⭐️ A letter to Jamie Dimon
- Why Bitcoin Matters, Marc Andreessen
- Beyond the Bitcoin bubble, NYT
- Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree, Narayanan & Clark
- Programming Bitcoin, Jimmy Song
- Bitcoin for the open minded sceptic, Matt Huang
- Bitcoin Macro Strategy, Michael Saylor
- Bitcoin first, Fidelity
- End the FUD
- 7 Misconceptions About Bitcoin, Lyn Alden
- A Closer Look at the Environmental Impact of Bitcoin Mining, Christopher Bendiksen
- Bitcoin is Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future, Square
- ⭐️ Peter Van Valkenburgh explains Bitcoin to the Senate
- Mastering Ethereum, Andreas Antonopoulos
- How does Ethereum work anyway?, Preethi Kasireddy
- What is Ethereum, Ethereum Foundation
- The Infinite Machine, Camilla Russo
- Making Sense of “Cryptoeconomics”, Josh Stark
- Digital Assets Primer: Only the first inning, BofA
- Overview of Digital Assets and Blockchain, Goldman Sachs
- An (Institutional) Investor’s Take on Cryptoassets, John Pfeffer
- New Internet Logic, John Palmer
- A new internet, Joel John
- Making Sense of Web3, LifeItself
- Making Sense of Web3, Josh Stark
- Beyond the Hype: Is Web3 a Socio-Cultural System?, Thomas Isaa
- What is Web3?, Gavin Wood
- What is Web3?, Ethereum Foundation
- What is web3?, HBR
- Wtf is web3?, Cobie
- The Third Web, Tante
- A History of Cryptoart and NFTs
- Storing Value in Digital Objects, Derek Edws
- ⭐️ NFTs and A Thousand True Fans, Chris Dixon
- Headless Brands, Hart, Lotti & Shorin
- Crypto's Consumer Era, Kinjal Shah
- Power to the Person, Packy McCormick
- ⭐️ The Ownership Economy, Variant Fund
- The Ownership Economy 2022, Variant Fund
- Storing Value in Digital Objects, Derek Edws
- Defining music NFT ownership, from the digital to the analog world, Water & Music
- The Metaverse, Matthew Ball
- Value Creation in the Metaverse, McKinsey
- Reviving Trust in Crypto, Ria Bhutoria
- How Not to Play the Game, Matt Levine
- Reflections On Contagion & The Rebirth Of Crypto Infrastructure, Edessa
- State of Crypto Report 2023, a16z
- ⭐️ The Web3 Creator Playbook, Rafa Fernandez
- ⭐️ From UGC to UGP: Consumer Brands & Co-Creation, Multicoin Capital
- ⭐️ Crypto-Native NFT IP: A New Era For Consumer Brands, Mikey 0x
- ⭐️ Building on Passion, Gaby Goldberg
- ⭐️ Life After Lifestyle, Toby Shorin
- ⭐️ Blockchains and The Next Generation of Fandom, Amanda Young
- What Makes Tokenized Communities Valuable?, Jihad Esmail
- ⭐️ The network effects of the metaverse and the economies of Web3 communities, Claudio Tessone & Andrés Luther
- Digiphysical Goods: Bringing Programmable Utility to Physical Products, 1kx
- AI & crypto, a16z (audio)
- The Search for Crypto-Native Business Models, Seth Bloomberg
- ⭐️ The Future of Web3 Loyalty, Reddit for Business
- Web3 Could Change the Business Model of Creative Work, Alex Tapscott
- The Barrier to Mainstream Crypto Adoption Isn’t UX — It’s Product-Market Fit, Li Jin
- ⭐️ When the World Goes Phygital, Aleksija Vujicic
- ⭐️The Phygital Stack, Aleksija Vujicic
- It’s All a Game, Colleen Sullivan