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Web3 and the open web
137 links saved from 2016 to 2026; 123 with a note, 114 in a Weekly Thing.
- Most from
- vitalik.eth.limo 10, vitalik.ca 9, avc.com 5, notboring.co 5, stratechery.com 4
2026
- The cryptographic world computer
- An end to fully open networks
- ENS for Everyone: How Onchain Identity Is Becoming Public Infrastructure
- The Hidden Price of Free: Why Your Data is Worth Far More Than You Think
- Patricio Worthalter (POAP): The impossible balance between culture alignment and survival
- offline regains its value
2025
- X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
- North Korean Hackers Use Blockchain to Hide Crypto-Stealing Malware
- Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it
- Why the AI revolution needs tollbooths
- The Agentic Web and Original Sin
- Why I support privacy
- Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum
- Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond
2024
- What I would love to see in a wallet
- Nobody cares about decentralization until they do
- How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding?
- I've Moved Onchain
- A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
- Preparing for the Unthinkable: A Brief Guide to Digital Legacy Planning
- Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
- Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter | Tim Berners-Lee
- Ask security questions
- Thoughts on XMTP
- Why I Moved My Blog from IPFS to a Server | Neiman’s Blog
- The end of my childhood
2023
- The resurgence of crypto
- My techno-optimism
- Blockchains As Platforms
- OnThis.xyz
- Capitalism Onchained
- The Three Transitions
- Digital identity – Assessing Web3’s identity building blocks
- LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it.
- 2023 State of Crypto Report: Introducing the State of Crypto Index
- What Is A Protocol And Why Does It Matter?
- Crypto (Could) Fixes This
- Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks
- S3 as an Eternal Service
- The Limits of L2 - Martin Köppelmann
- Ethereum Reflections 2023 · djrtwo/writing
- The Network State Podcast with Balaji Srinivasan
- The Year Ahead
- Weapons of Mass Disruption: Eurasia Group's #3 Top Risk of 2023
2022
- Tony Fadell Is Trying to Build the iPod of Crypto
- What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
- Sign Everything
- Decentralization
- Micropayments for content
- Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
- Taking A Long Term View Of Web3
- The Death of Decentralized Email
- Raoul Pal CEO of RealVision, GMI, etc. | web3 talks
- The Block: CFTC and SEC chairs may disagree over whether ether is a security
- The Battle for the Soul of the Web
- DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
- More resilient and user-controlled than AWS: Colin Evran's vision for Filecoin
- Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin Appears at Kyiv Tech Summit to Support for Ukraine
- Interview: Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum
- There aren't that many uses for blockchains
- Is "acceptably non-dystopian" self-sovereign identity even possible?
- In defense of crypto(currency)
- Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood
- Is Web3 the future of the Web?: Key takeaways from our webinar
- Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival? | Melon's Thoughts
- The Crypto Wallet: Unlocking Digital Identity
- The web3 world computer is at a 1970 level of development (Interconnected)
- Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul
- The Network State: How To Start a New Country
- Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Is Worried About Crypto's Future
- Balaji Srinivasan: Creating Sources of Definitive Truth With Blockchain Oracles
- My first web3 webpage
- Three thoughts about NFTs
- Andy Warhol, Clay Christensen, and Vitalik Buterin walk into a bar
- Why I Wrote PGP
- OpenSea, Web3, and Aggregation Theory
- Moxie Marlinspike >> My first impressions of web3
2021
- Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
- Defining the web3 stack
- Three Ideas on the Great Web3 Debate
- Web3 is Self-Certifying by Jay Graber
- DWeb
- What Problem Blockchains Actually Solve
- Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3
- Modern Finance: Where Data Lives in an IPFS/Filecoin World with Mikeal Rogers
- Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Web3 Are Already Reshaping the World
- Making web3 and the world of crypto more user-friendly and accessible
- Endgame
- How to Become a Crypto Person: A Normie’s Guide
- Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma
- The Financialization of Everything
- Is Crypto Bullshit? - Will Wilkinson, Model Citizen
- Crypto design challenges
- An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities)
- on falling down the rabbit hole
- Chris Dixon and Packy McCormick on the future of crypto
- Notes on Web3
- Crypto Cities
- Web3 vs Web2
- HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web
- Open Source Is Finally Coming to Financial Services
- Web3 — A vision for a decentralized web
- The Jordan Analogy by Doug Clinton
- A Prehistory of DAOs
- Making Sense Podcast #259 - The Reckoning to Come - A Conversation with Balaji Srinivasan
- Those virtual battlegrounds…. I lost my country but I gained a big pile of virtual gold
- The Brilliance of Yield Farming, Liquidity Providing and Valuing Crypto Projects
- DeAll: The Air of Decentralization in 2021 | Hector Fernandez
- IPFS, Filecoin, and ‘Content Persistence’
- Announcing Coinbase Fact Check: Decentralizing truth in the age of misinformation
- Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed people but underrated among informed people
- Own the Internet: The Bull Case for Ethereum
- The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
- Why sharding is great: demystifying the technical properties
- Why the blockchain matters
- Market-Making on the Internet
- Ask Andy with Andrew Redleaf Episode #8
- Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More (#506)
- How to Value an NFT (or any Collectible) - The Contrarian Mindset
- Crypto, NFTs, and Blockchain ft. Raoul Pal — The Prof G Show with Scott Galloway
2019
2018
2017
- Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain
- Why I’m Using Bitmarks on my Products « bunnie's blog
- Blockchains: How They Work and Why They’ll Change the World
- Blockchain: The New Technology of Trust
- Blockchains, Determinism, Monads, Agents and Functional Reactive Programming
- Announcing the Coco Framework for enterprise blockchain networks | Blog
- Blockchains from the ground up: Part 1
- IDCoins : A Web of Trust Blockchain for Identity and Reputation