However, the Internet we use today is still predominantly built on the idea of the stand-alone computer,

The protocol provides an operating system for a new type of economy that can transcend nation states and individual organizations.

Token Curated Registries (TCRs) are a cryptoeconomic mechanism designed to incentivize the collective curation of public lists or content feeds in a social network.

This family of protocols regulates the transmission of data, not how data is stored.

In the case of Bitcoin, the public good represents a P2P payment infrastructure. In the case of Ethereum, the public good represents a P2P computing infrastructure.

One of the most pressing applied research questions when developing complementary technologies for the Web3 is the question of how to reward network participants with a token, so that the network stays attack resistant.

Decentralized applications don’t necessarily need to run on top of a blockchain network.

While decentralized architectures are more resilient than their centralized Web2 predecessors, they are also slower.

While early tokens were first only minted as part of the incentive scheme of the underlying blockchain protocols, with the advent of the Ethereum network, tokens have moved up the technology stack.