Web3 Reading List

Below is a list of worthwhile posts about web3/cryptocurrency/cryptography. Best to read in chronological order:

2008

• Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System — the original Bitcoin whitepaper published pseudonymously by Satoshi Nakamoto. It’s succinct and surprisingly accessible to a nonexpert.

2011

• Bitcoin — by Fred Wilson

2013

• Coinbase — by Chris Dixon

• Why I’m interested in Bitcoin — by Chris Dixon

2014

• Why Bitcoin Matters — by Marc Andreessen

2016

• Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency — by Fred Ehrsam

• Fat Protocols — by Joel Monegro

2017

• Value of the Token Model — by Fred Ehrsam

• A beginner’s guide to Ethereum — by Linda Xie

• The Meaning of Decentralization — by Vitalik Buterin

• Thoughts on Tokens — by Balaji Srinivasan

• Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design — by Chris Dixon

• Analyzing Token Sale Models — by Vitalik Buterin

• Cryptocurrency’s Netscape Moment — by Elad Gil

• Permissionless — by Alok Vasudev

• The Slow Death of the Firm — by Nick Tomaino

• Big Banks And Blockchain — by Elad Gil

2018

• Why decentralization matters — by Chris Dixon

• And What Has the Blockchain Ever Done for Us? — by Balaji Srinivasan

• Stablecoins: designing a price-stable cryptocurrency — by Haseeb Qureshi

2019

• Yes, You May Need a Blockchain — by Balaji Srinivasan

• The future of decentralized finance — by Linda Xie

• The Pseudonymous Economy — by Balaji Srinivasan

2020

• Credible Neutrality As A Guiding Principle — by Vitalik Buterin

• A Beginner’s Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) — by Sid Coelho-Prabhu

• The Ownership Economy — by Jesse Walden

• Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic — by Matt Huang

• Creators, Communities, and Crypto — by Fred Ehrsam

• What explains the rise of AMMs? — by Haseeb Qureshi

• Ethereum is a Dark Forest — by Dan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos

2021

• Surviving Crypto Cycles — by Fred Ehrsam

• The Value Chain of the Open Metaverse — by Packy McCormick

• MEV and Me — by Charlie Noyes

• NFTs make the internet ownable — by Jesse Walden

• NFTs and A Thousand True Fans — by Chris Dixon

• A beginner’s guide to DAOs — by Linda Xie

• The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy — by Vitalik Buterin

• The Great Online Game — by Packy McCormick

• India & Crypto series — by Balaji Srinivasan

• Own the Internet — by Packy McCormick

• Why web3 matters — by Chris Dixon

• Composability is Innovation — by Linda Xie

• The Strongest Crypto Gaming Thesis — by gubsheep

• Endgame — by Vitalik Buterin

• Trading the metagame — by Cobie 

• The Mirrortable — by Balaji Srinivasan

2022

• 2021 NFT Year in Review — by 1confirmation

• Soulbound — by Vitalik Buterin

• Hyperstructures — by Jacob Horne

• Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks — by Varun Srinivasan