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Part 1

  • History of the Web
  • Client-Server Internet
  • Data Monopoly vs. Data Sovereignty
  • Centralized vs. Distributed
  • Web2 Applications vs. Web3 Applications
  • Like a Spreadsheet in the Cloud
  • Behind the Blockchain Protocol
  • Why is it called Blockchain?
  • Why is it Expensive to Manipulate a Network Transaction?
  • How Blocks of Transactions are Chained
  • Why is the Ledger Tamper Resistant?
  • Blockchain Concept
  • Public Ledger vs. Private Ledger
  • Symmetric Key Cryptography
  • Asymmetric Key Cryptography
  • Generation of Keys and Addresses
  • Public Key not same as Bitcoin Address
  • Digital Signatures
  • Blockchain Wallet
  • User-Centric Identities
  • History of Identities

Part 2

  • Smart Contracts
  • Aspects of Smart Contract
  • Buying a Car in the Web2
  • Buying a Car in the Web3
  • Traditional Top Down Organizations
  • Complex Socio-Economic Systems
  • Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
  • Institutional Economics of DAOs
  • Governance Feedback Loop
  • Token Properties
  • Where Tokens are Generated
  • Rights Perspective
  • Fungibility Perspective
  • Transferability Perspective

Part 3

  • Atomic Swaps
  • P2P Token Sales
  • Comparison of Fundraising Methods
  • History of Token Sales

Part 4

  • Token Engineering
  • Token Engineering Aspects

Annex

  • State Channels
  • Side Chains

Token Economy: How the Web3 reinvents the Internet.
Second edition, first amended printing, Nov 2020. The first edition was published by BlockchainHub Berlin https://blockchainhub.net in June 2019 under the title “Token Economy: How Blockchain & Smart contracts revolutionize the Economy” and had two amended editions.

Author: Shermin Voshmgir
BibTeX: @book{voshmgir2020token, title={Token Economy: How the Web3 reinvents the Internet}, author={Voshmgir, Shermin}, year={2020}, publisher={Token Kitchen} }

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Comments: There are various possibilities of forking the text of the book: You could add code contributions to the theoretical examples mentioned in this book, create future iterations with new /modified chapters or translate this book into another language, and distribute it non-commercially (for free). To do this you can fork the wiki and start translating the texts under your own Github account anytime and publish the modified/translated book on Github directly. I can send you the original AI files for creating translated version of the graphics. Please not that with this licence you are not allowed to sell the book or use it for other commercial projects, but I can try and support you get funding with a Gitcoin Grant or any other crowdfunding campaign, so you get money for the work you put in. 

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