Welcome to the very first edition of web3 weekly, a newsletter from a16 z crypto that curates resources from us, and from others, for those looking for to comprehend and go deeper on all things crypto and web3. We intend to assist cut through all the sound and share the signals that matter– whether information or resources from the contractors, the scientists, the developers– for anybody constructing the next generation of the web (aka web3). If you’re getting this dispatch, then you’re still early!

1. The concern: How do blockchains, crypto, web3 relate; where’s the item development?

Sonal Chokshi, Chris Dixon, Eddy Lazzarin, Tim Roughgarden, Ali Yahya

brand-new podcast

listen to the episodes

2. The information: price-innovation cycles, crypto activity, effect

view or download the report here

3. The text & the subtext: Cryptoeconomics

Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok

Modern Principles of Economics

download the complete chapter here

4. The pattern: Metaverse!

Liz Harkavy, Eddy Lazzarin, Arianna Simpson; Scott Duke Kominers

location

check out ‘7 Essential Ingredients’, a structure for the metaverse
check out ‘Metaverse Land’, on what makes digital property important to users

Other views: take on video gaming and the metaverse

5. Foundation: checks out & resources

Business method developing with web3

• Harvard Business Review

• Harvard Business Review

MPC in theory and in practice

• Coinbase blog site

• GitHub

Deep dives, structures

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ethereum

• YouTube GitHub

• IACR

• Quanta Magazine

• IACR

In the news – signal/ sound

• The Price of Agency

• Nansen

• Vitalik Buterin

summertime nights

— Sonal Chokshi, Robert Hackett, and the a16 z crypto group

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