Humans’ inherent capability to cooperate has made them the most fearsome predators ever seen on the planet. They have been able to navigate through shifting climates, other sapiens, and continued to populate the world. Money has been a key mechanism through which Humans have been able to coordinate and sustain…

“Blockchains are politically decentralized (no one controls them) and architecturally decentralized (no infrastructural central point of failure) but they are logically centralized (there is one commonly agreed state and the system behaves like a single computer).” — The Meaning of Decentralization, by Vitalik Buterin (co-founder of Ethereum) Decentralization is a…

“Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it” — Vandana Shiva In the recent floods in Pakistan, one-third of the country is underwater, and this is a classic case where the damages of climate change are not borne equally; underserved communities are disproportionally burdened with the impacts…

As with how teams communicate in a non-hierarchical way in web3 organizations, the hiring process also works in an informal setup. At an early stage, most start-ups in web3 have a team size of 2–20 members. The hiring happens mostly in Discord, as you can directly DM the team. Most…

Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) refers to the maximum value that can be extracted from block production in excess of the block rewards(gas fees), by transaction inclusion, exclusion, and sequencing. …

Beautiful cities like London and Paris are often created from the systematic loot from British and French colonies. Cities in the third world countries are a stark contrast between rich localities overshadowed by slums that have poor access to drinking water and hygienic sanitation. A network city uses blockchain to…

Note: The article is based on the paper Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul by E. Glen Weyl, Puja Ohlhaver & Vitalik Buterin. In a financial crisis enquiry report the big three credit rating agencies were accused of being the enablers of 2008 financial crisis. If the credit rating agencies would…

Governance has been around for millions of years, organising humans into small groups. As the groups grew larger in size, governance also evolved accordingly. Coordination is the sole factor that kept these groups together. Coordination is the ability to work individuals for a collective purpose. It could be either ‘make…

This is a contribution post made for Globalcoinresearch.com and Layer3. Imagine a dissatisfied employee in a crypto exchange company compromises their private key. A frightening yet, possible scenario. DAOs, LLPs, individuals dealing with web3 faces this relentless risk of losing or stealing private key. Private key although secure, also exposes…