"one of the best possible use cases for smart contracts" Jack du Rose on the Colony project. Building new ways for participants in gig economy to organize. soundcloud.com/arthurfalls/th…

"what we're building here is in some ways a new class of social institution" vitalik.eth on the future of Ethereum & avoiding complex cryptographic assumptions. youtube.com/watch?v=_wPI8V…

"Rather than customize existing business models for an Indian market, we are seeing...the emergence of deep tech companies developing IP within India itself and targeting a global demographic" Cathy Guo (Cathy Guo) Nitin Sharma Sumukh Dunya Labs soundcloud.com/arthurfalls/th…

The most successful DApp is not blockchain based. Seafarer Dominic Tarr describes the origins of his subjective append-only-log-based social network, Secure Scuttlebutt. scuttlebutt.nz soundcloud.com/arthurfalls/th…

“It’s not counter-culture, just better culture” - Joseph Lubin of @ConsenSys on the his journey to and through the world of decentralization. thethirdweb.net/2018/12/10/jos…

Ever greater control. . . The actor model is a software design paradigm tasked with managing our telecommunications networks and secure servers. Increasingly it is being applied to the software platforms that power #web3 thethirdweb.net/2018/12/12/the…

It is developing nations that will see the deployment of blockchain and other technologies of human coordination - Amir Taaki, Narodism on seeing the bigger picture of technological empowerment thethirdweb.net/2018/12/17/ami…

State grinding attacks & where to find them - @aparnalocked presents Mechanism Labs research into consensus mechanisms thethirdweb.net/2018/12/20/apa…

"The narrative we’ve been told is that traditional fiat money isn’t backed by anything and it’s all gone to hell since we went off the gold standard. This is a complete lie." dom williams.icp ∞ DFINITY Foundation thethirdweb.net/2019/01/13/the…

Social coordination based on a central source of truth existed long before blockchain. Ben Vickers 🐬 discusses innovation in organization structure from The Rule of Saint Benedict to the Bauhaus. thethirdweb.net/2019/01/24/cod…

Following the thread from Ethereum to Substrate/Polkadot and beyond. Gavin Wood & Aeron Buchanan of @web3foundation tell the story. thethirdweb.net/2019/01/30/daw…

A bridge to the adjacent possible, dillon (🐮,🌝) of the Edgeware project We've moved:, by Commonwealth Labs hicommonwealth, joins to discuss the current technological age and their upcoming token distribution thethirdweb.net/2019/03/03/the…

Beyond blockchain - Urbit is one of an emerging group of highly mature projects that look outside of blockchain to decentralize the web. Galen Wolfe-Pauly explains thethirdweb.net/2019/03/18/the…

Global consensus is overrated - Dive into @holochain with Arthur Brock thethirdweb.net/2019/05/10/hol…

Emin Gun Sirer explains the scientific thinking of the research community that gave us ThunderCore, & @avalabsofficial. A great historical touchstone. thethirdweb.net/2019/06/01/an-…

A new way to represent our skill set: jared explains the Fathom project which aims to capture what falls between the cracks between institutional credentials thethirdweb.net/2019/06/03/dec…