Bitcoin and Ethereum

• Why Bitcoin Matters
  • Why Bitcoin Matters (2014) by Marc Andreessen
• How Bitcoin Works
  • The 5 minute version
  • The longer version
• Bitcoin, the MVP of Blockchain
  • Byzantine Fault Tolerance (2017) by Georgios Konstantopoulos
  • Proof of Work (and Proof of Stake) (2017) by Georgios Konstantopoulos
• Pricing
  • Michael Saylor and Ross Stevens on Bitcoin
  • Modeling Bitcoin Value with Scarcity (2019) by PlanB
• Decentralization
  • Why Decentralization Matters (2018) by Chris Dixon

Scaling the blockchain

• Ethereum Layer 2 Scaling Explained
• The Lightning Network
• Solana Explained

Smart Contracts

• Smart Contracts

DeFi

• A Beginner’s Guide to DeFi (2020) by Linda Xie
• DeFi - The Future of Finance

AMMs

• How do Liquidity Pools work? (Uniswap, Curve, Balancer)
• What explains the rise of AMMs? (2020) by Haseeb Qureshi
• Uniswap V3 - New Era Of AMMs?

dApps

• Introduction to dApps

Lending and Borrowing

• Lending and Borrowing in DeFi Explained

Yield farming

• Yield Farming Explained

A Brave New World

NFTs

• A beginner’s guide to NFTs (2020) by Linda Xie

Understanding the NFT value proposition

• NFTs make the internet ownable (2021) by Jesse Walden
• NFTs and a Thousand True Fans (2021) by Chris Dixon

DAOs

• A beginner’s guide to DAOs (2021) by Linda Xie
• The DAO Hack Explained: Unfortunate Take-off of Smart Contracts (2018) by Osman Gazi Güçlütürk
• The Dao of DAOs (2021) by Packy McCormick
• Come for the community, stay for the economy (2021) by Patrick Rivera