Token Economy (Third Edition) Chapter: DeFi: Decentralized Finance Volume: Money, NFTs & DeFi Publication Date: 2023
This page contains all the references to the source materials used for the research of the chapters and should also provide a reading list for those who are interest to dive deeper into the topics presented in this chapter of the book. Where possible, the links on this page will be updated on a regular basis to prevent broken links that usually emerge over time.
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- DeSci Wiki by Jocelynn Pearl and Ultrarare
- Decentralized science resources
- Paul Kohlhaas - DeSci: The Future of Decentralized Science (podcast)
- An Active Inference Ontology for Decentralized Science: from Situated Sensemaking to the Epistemic Commons
- What's Decentralized Science?
- Juan Benet - DeSci, Independent Labs, & Large Scale Data Science
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The Chainalysis State of Web3 Report: https://go.chainalysis.com/2022-web3-report.html
Websites & Documentation of Projects Mentioned
- Avalanche
- Arbitrum
- BNB Chain
- Optimism
- Polygon
- Solana
- zkSync
- Monero
- Zcash
- Tornado Cash
- FTX
- Alameda Research
- Celsius
- Three Arrows Capital (3AC)
- Nuri
- Voyager
- BlockFi
- Compound
- Aave
- Uniswap
- MakerDAO
- Kraken
- Flashbots
- Wrapped Bitcoin
- Wrapped Ether
- Ren
- BlockScience
- Celo Climate Collective
- Katalyst.Earth
- KlimaDAO
- Open Forest Protocol
- Toucan Protocol
- Reneum
- ReFiDAO
- Flowcarbon