Crypto Tokens – A Breakthrough In Open Network Design

In this episode featuring Andressen Horowitz General Partner Chris Dixon, you’ll learn:

  • How crypto tokens can aid in reversing the trend of internet centralization
  • Why tokens benefit their users, developers, investors, and entire open source initiatives
  • Why centralized networks won out versus open networks in Web 2.0, and why crypto tokens may shift the tide back to open networks in the future
  • How Ethereum is pouring gasoline on this fire with the ERC20 token, inspiring a new wave of token networks

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Cryptoeconomics 101

In this episode featuring cryptocurrency venture fund founder Nick Tomaino, you will learn:

  • What ‘cryptoeconomics’ is, and why it matters to the ecosystem
  • The history of decentralized systems including Kazaa and Bittorrent, and why the lack of cryptoeconomic systems stifled them from thriving
  • How Vitalik Buterin, founder of the Ethereum protocol, is pushing the bounds of cryptoeconomics
  • How crypto monetary policy influences the trajectory decentralized networks

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Fat Protocols

In this episode featuring Joel Monegro, you’ll learn:

  • How economic value for decentralized blockchain-based networks tends to be distributed to protocols rather than applications
  • Why shared data, such as user data, in decentralized systems, leads to value creation at the protocol level
  • Why crypto tokens are an essential incentives layer in blockchain networks
  • How tokens lead to a feedback loop incentivizing investment, development, entrepreneurship, and healthy speculation

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