A Gentle IntroductionUnderstanding the Backbone of Web 3Imagine a notebook that is shared among thousands of people. Each time someone writes in it, everyone else automatically gets the same update. No one can erase or change a page once it’s written, and the group as a whole decides whether a new page is valid before it’s added. This simple idea is the foundation of blockchain technology. It may sound technical, but at its heart, blockchain is just a new way of keeping records—more transpare...

A Gentle IntroductionUnderstanding the Backbone of Web 3Imagine a notebook that is shared among thousands of people. Each time someone writes in it, everyone else automatically gets the same update. No one can erase or change a page once it’s written, and the group as a whole decides whether a new page is valid before it’s added. This simple idea is the foundation of blockchain technology. It may sound technical, but at its heart, blockchain is just a new way of keeping records—more transpare...