Token Economy: Web3 Infrastructure (English Edition)

This book is one out of a total of three books in the Token Economy Series. The purpose of this book is to explain the paradigm shift between Web2 and Web3 on an infrastructure level of the Web and how this will affect the application landscape that builds on it. It gives an introduction to the basic principles of Web3, explains why the emergence of the Bitcoin network was a game changer, and outlines the fundamental building blocks of Web3 from a technical and economic perspective. The book also explains the role of cryptography for token security and token privacy and how public-private key infrastructure brings a native identity layer to the Internet. The book caters to a general audience with a non-tech background and aims to give an overview over the topic without going into all the technical details. The chapters in this book cover the following broad topics:
* Tokenized Networks: Web3, the Stateful Web
* Token Management: Bitcoin & Its Origins
* Token Management: Other Blockchain Networks
* Token Security: Cryptography & Wallets
* Token Privacy: Privacy by Design for Web3
* Who Controls The Tokens? User-Centric Identity-Systems
* Token Contracts & Token Types

The monetary and financial aspects of Web3 and its tokenized applications is discussed in another book of the Token Economy Series titled “Money, NFTs & DeFi.” Tokens that are designed to incentivize an autonomous group of people to individually contribute to a collective goal, and are minted upon proof of a certain behavior, is the subject of the third book titled: “DAOs & Purpose-Driven Tokens.”

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