Crypto Resources
Books
- DeFi and the Future of Finance
- How to DeFi: Beginner
- How to DeFi: Advanced
- Cryptoassets
- The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
- The Bitcoin Standard
- The Basics of Bitcoin and Blockchains
Great Podcast Episodes
- (May 2022) The Daily Gwei with Sassal & Cobie: Crypto Ponzis, Bad VCs, and Spicy Takes
- (Oct 2021) The Time Ferris Show ep. 542 with Chris Dixon & Naval Ravikant: The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs
- (Oct 2021) Invest with the Best with Casa's Nick Neuman: Becoming your own Bank
- (Oct 2021) The a16z Podcast ep. 639: Crypto Security and the New Web3 Mindsets for Users
- (Aug 2021) Bankless ep. 78 with Fireblocks: Institutional DeFi Infrastructure
- (Aug 2021) Stephan Livera Podcast epi. 297 with @ErgoBTC: Chain Surveil Yourself
- (Feb 2021) The Bitcoin Standard Podcast with Michael Saylor: The Fiat Standard
- (Jan 2021) Unchained ep. 209 with Michael Saylor: Why Bitcoin Now: Michael Saylor on the Best Way for Companies to Buy Bitcoin
Podcasts
- Web3 Breakdowns
- Uncommon Core with Su Zhu & Hasu
- The Breakdown with NLW
- The Investors Podcast Network with Preston Pysh & Trey Lockerbie
- What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack
- On The Brink with Castle Island
- The Scoop by The Block
- Bankless
- Modern Finance with Kevin Rose
- Up Only with Cobie & Ledger
- Stephan Livera
- Unconfirmed
- Unchained with Laura Shin
- The Bitcoin Standard with Saifedean Ammous
- The Pomp Podcast
- Tales from the Crypt
- Blockcrunch with Jason Choi
- a16z podcast
Blog Posts & Articles
General
- (Aug 2022) Ultimate Web3 guide for Crypto Curious by Nakul Gupta
- (May 2022) 2022 State of Crypto report by a16z
- (April 2022) The Blockchain Economy by FT Partners
- (March 2022) Cracks in the Fat Protocol Theory by Chia Jeng Yang
- (Jan 2022) Messari Report: Crypto Theses for 2022
- (November 2021) Talent, Value Distributions, and Liquidity in Crypto Protocols by Michael Dempsey
- Curious Beginner's Guide to Crypto by Peter Yang
- The Case for Digital Assets by Eric Peters
- MyCrypto’s Security Guide For Dummies And Smart People Too
- The SIM Swapping Bible: What To Do When SIM-Swapping Happens To You by MyCrypto
- Coinmarketcap Guides: Block explorers
Bitcoin
- The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati
- 3 Reasons I'm investing in Bitcoin by Lyn Alden
- Bitcoin Explained with Emoji
- A Practical Guide to Bitcoin Addresses
- How to Use Mempool.Space
- Taproot Primer by Kraken
- The Dos and Don'ts of Bitcoin Key Management by Jameson Lopp
- Samouri Wallet - Understanding Bitcoin Privacy with OXT
- BitGo UTXO Management for Enterprises
- Coinmonks blog, like The UTXO model
Other L1s, L2s, Bridges
- A normie's guide to rollups by Preethi
- Layer 2 Solutions by The Block
- Layer 1 Solutions by The Block
DeFi, Web3, DAOs, and NFTs
- (Aug 2022) A Survey of NFT Licenses: Facts & Fictions by Galaxy Digital
- (May 2022) Web3: What's all the Hype About by Grace Isford
- (April 2022) ApeCoin & the death of Staking by Cobie
- (April 2022) Tokenomics 103: Evaluating Token Utility by Nat Eliason
- (March 2022) Tokenomics 102: Digging Deeper on Supply by Nat Eliason
- (March 2022) The Digital Land Debate by Messari
- (Jan 2022) Tokenomics 101: The Basics of Evaluating Cryptocurrencies by Nat Eliason
- (Jan 2022) WTF is web3 by Cobie
- (Jan 2022) The Web3 World by Grace Isford
- (Oct 20221) Stablecoins: The Impending Rise of a Multi-Trillion Dollar Market by Jump Cap
- The Defi Den by TheTie
- Making DeFi Easy to Understand by Zapper
- The True Sources of DeFi Yield by Yugo
- What do Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 mean? Which one is better? by Preethi Kasireddy
- The Architecture of a Web 3.0 (Web3) application by Preethi Kasireddy
- Defining the web3 stack by Nader Dabit
- The Web3/Crypto/Metaverse Ecosystem Guide by Lightspeed
- My first impressions of web3 by Moxie
- Chaordic organizations, community investing & the return of the DAO by John St. Capital
- FinTech 3.0 Re-Architecting Financial Market Infrastructure & DeFi by John St. Capital
- A Beginners Guide to DAOs by Linda Xie
- DAO Masters
- A Beginners Guide to NFTs by Linda Xie
- The Defiant's Definitive Guide to DeFi
- WTF are veTokens by Ben Giove at Bankless
- (March 2019) What’s MakerDAO and what’s going on with it?
Storage
- Web3 Storage (Arweave, Filecoin, Stratos) by Huobi Research
Newsletters
- This Week In Crypto by Maaria Bajwa
- Nat Eliason
- Cobie
- Tascha Labs
- Decentral Park Research
- Bitmex Crypto Trader Digest
- Incentivized by Yugo
- Wrong A Lot
- Glassnode Insights
- Compass Mining Memo
- Bitcoin Optech
- The Daily Gwei
- The Defiant
- Argent Newsletter
- Blockware Intelligence
- Chainalysis Market Intel
- Kraken
- VeradiVerdict
- The Held Report
- Delphi Digital
Analytics
- Glassnode
- IntoTheBlock
- BitBo
- BitInfoCharts
- Look Into Bitcoin
- Dune Analytics
- Messari
- https://etherscan.io/charts
- Coinmarketcap.com
- L2Beat
Gas Trackers
- https://etherscan.io/gastracker
- Blocknative Gas Estimator
- gasnow.org
- GlassNodes mean transaction gas price
Other
- Token reading material
- The Daily Ape Notion page by Darren Lau
- Jason Choi Notion page
- a16z Crypto Startup School
- Crypto Reading List by Jump Capital
- Bitcoin Resources on lopp.net
- BraveNewCoin Insights
- Ethereum Research
- https://ethereum.org/en/
- Guide to Crypto Twitter by Argent
- DeFi & NFT Guide by Argent
- Tweet thread by @Danny Diekroeger on various Bitcoin things
- Coinmarketcap Glossary
- Paradigm writings
- @michaelrihani tweet thread on Why Bitcoin
- Building a better personal ETH wallet setup by Jesse Pollack