Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation

In this episode featuring Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures, you’ll learn:

How Bitcoin and other decentralized blockchains will drive the decentralization of the internet
How blockchain protocols provide incentives for the creation and governance of technologies that were previously largely unmonetized public resources
Examples of how companies such as Sia and Filecoin are using blockchains to fund their development and capitalize on the potential success of their technology

The Fifth Protocol

In this episode featuring AngelList and CoinList Co-Founder Naval Ravikant, you’ll learn:

Why machines could be a major catalyst for Bitcoin protocol adoption
Why it has taken so long to create the internet’s first protocol for exchanging value, and why it’s here to stay
Why Bitcoin has an advantage as an exchange of value protocol versus incumbents
Why dozens of app coins could proliferate on networks that must allocate resources (storage, cache, and more)
What some of the future real-world applications of blockchain-related protocols could be

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