CORE CONCEPTS You’ve interacted with several dapps now, including ENS and POAP, and observed that some of your transactions on those dapps required paying hefty gas fees. Today we’re going to move some of your assets off a Layer 1 blockchain like Ethereum and onto a Layer 2 blockchain called Polygon. The process of moving assets from one chain to another chain is called bridging. Once you’ve bridged some of your assets to Polygon, you’ll be able to perform transactions for significantly less ...

CORE CONCEPTS You’ve interacted with several dapps now, including ENS and POAP, and observed that some of your transactions on those dapps required paying hefty gas fees. Today we’re going to move some of your assets off a Layer 1 blockchain like Ethereum and onto a Layer 2 blockchain called Polygon. The process of moving assets from one chain to another chain is called bridging. Once you’ve bridged some of your assets to Polygon, you’ll be able to perform transactions for significantly less ...

IMPORTANT Yesterday you should have created an ENS domain. Please fill out this form and send me your ENS domain name. This step is necessary for Day 5.Picking up where we left offOpen your browser with MetaMask and go back to the ens.domains. Click Go to app, click the Connect button, and select MetaMask as your wallet of choice. You’ve just logged in with Ethereum again 😎 Now click My Account and you should see a console that looks similar to the screenshot below.Welcome back to your ENS a...

IMPORTANT Yesterday you should have created an ENS domain. Please fill out this form and send me your ENS domain name. This step is necessary for Day 5.Picking up where we left offOpen your browser with MetaMask and go back to the ens.domains. Click Go to app, click the Connect button, and select MetaMask as your wallet of choice. You’ve just logged in with Ethereum again 😎 Now click My Account and you should see a console that looks similar to the screenshot below.Welcome back to your ENS a...

IMPORTANT This activity will only work if you filled out this form and sent me your ENS domain name. After submitting the form, you should have received an email from me with a link to claim your POAP. If you haven’t done that, please do it now - and come back when you get the email. ⚠️ Update (Apr 18): due to a large number of requests from people who are just interested in collecting the POAP (but aren’t doing the activities), I will only be emailing POAP links to people who are new to Ethe...

IMPORTANT This activity will only work if you filled out this form and sent me your ENS domain name. After submitting the form, you should have received an email from me with a link to claim your POAP. If you haven’t done that, please do it now - and come back when you get the email. ⚠️ Update (Apr 18): due to a large number of requests from people who are just interested in collecting the POAP (but aren’t doing the activities), I will only be emailing POAP links to people who are new to Ethe...

My happy placeEnvironmental projects are interesting candidates for NFTs.We should view our environmental resources as non-fungible assets. Each tree, member of a species, plot of land is unique. The same goes for carbon credits, which vary considerably in quality and provenance. We struggle to properly appraise, value, and govern environmental resources. NFTs offer ways of addressing some of these issues. They could restructure portions of ownership to better align long-term incentives and m...

My happy placeEnvironmental projects are interesting candidates for NFTs.We should view our environmental resources as non-fungible assets. Each tree, member of a species, plot of land is unique. The same goes for carbon credits, which vary considerably in quality and provenance. We struggle to properly appraise, value, and govern environmental resources. NFTs offer ways of addressing some of these issues. They could restructure portions of ownership to better align long-term incentives and m...

The currency-equivalent utility citizen 'i' receives for the funding of public good 'p'Original PaperLiberal Radicalism: A Flexible Design For Philanthropic Matching FundsA Flexible Design for Philanthropic Matching Funds (pdf version)Essays by Vitalik ButerinQuadratic Payments: A PrimerReview of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 380,000 Hours Transcript: Vitalik Buterin & Rob WilbinVitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, the blockchain's failures so far, &...

The currency-equivalent utility citizen 'i' receives for the funding of public good 'p'Original PaperLiberal Radicalism: A Flexible Design For Philanthropic Matching FundsA Flexible Design for Philanthropic Matching Funds (pdf version)Essays by Vitalik ButerinQuadratic Payments: A PrimerReview of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 380,000 Hours Transcript: Vitalik Buterin & Rob WilbinVitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, the blockchain's failures so far, &...

CORE CONCEPTS *Yesterday’s activity taught you about managing your own private keys - the first step to doing things with Ethereum apart from just holding it in a centralized exchange and hoping it goes up in value. Today we’re going to connect with Ethereum and purchase something on a decentralized app (“dapp”). You’ll also learn about gas - the cost of doing business on a decentralized blockchain.*Ethereum Naming Service (ENS)ENS is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on...

CORE CONCEPTS *Yesterday’s activity taught you about managing your own private keys - the first step to doing things with Ethereum apart from just holding it in a centralized exchange and hoping it goes up in value. Today we’re going to connect with Ethereum and purchase something on a decentralized app (“dapp”). You’ll also learn about gas - the cost of doing business on a decentralized blockchain.*Ethereum Naming Service (ENS)ENS is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on...

IMPORTANT Today’s activity is foundational to experiencing web3. You’ll need to be in a quiet and private location where you can focus uninterrupted for 30-60 minutes. I recommend working on a computer, but you can do it on a mobile phone too. Also make sure you have a good internet connection and a notebook!“Not your keys, not your coins”When you own a cryptocurrency like Ethereum, what you really own is a private key. A private key unlocks the right for you the owner to spend the associated...

IMPORTANT Today’s activity is foundational to experiencing web3. You’ll need to be in a quiet and private location where you can focus uninterrupted for 30-60 minutes. I recommend working on a computer, but you can do it on a mobile phone too. Also make sure you have a good internet connection and a notebook!“Not your keys, not your coins”When you own a cryptocurrency like Ethereum, what you really own is a private key. A private key unlocks the right for you the owner to spend the associated...

These projects all rely on crypto protocols to solve real world problems in clever ways.BraveBrave is a web browser for your phone or computer that stops online surveillance/tracking. In doing so, it speeds up browsing and uses less battery. The Problem Most websites and ads include software that tries to identify you. They want to track your every move across the web. As a user, access to your web activity and data is sold to the highest bidder. Internet giants grow rich, while publishers go...

These projects all rely on crypto protocols to solve real world problems in clever ways.BraveBrave is a web browser for your phone or computer that stops online surveillance/tracking. In doing so, it speeds up browsing and uses less battery. The Problem Most websites and ads include software that tries to identify you. They want to track your every move across the web. As a user, access to your web activity and data is sold to the highest bidder. Internet giants grow rich, while publishers go...

IMPORTANT If you already have some Ethereum in a Coinbase (or other centralized exchange) account, you can proceed to Day 2. If you are unable to access a centralized exchange because you don’t have a bank account or there aren’t any options in your part of the world, send me a direct message on Twitter and I’ll try to help.What are centralized exchanges?Centralized exchanges are online platforms for buying and selling cryptocurrencies. They are the most popular way for normal people to excha...

IMPORTANT If you already have some Ethereum in a Coinbase (or other centralized exchange) account, you can proceed to Day 2. If you are unable to access a centralized exchange because you don’t have a bank account or there aren’t any options in your part of the world, send me a direct message on Twitter and I’ll try to help.What are centralized exchanges?Centralized exchanges are online platforms for buying and selling cryptocurrencies. They are the most popular way for normal people to excha...

1/ Allocate membership tokens based on Log(production)Tokens = shares = votes. Most coops have a 1 member = 1 vote model. Instead, grant a utility token based on a Log(production) formula, e.g., a farm that produces 1000 units gets 3 tokens and a farm that produces 10 units gets 1 token. A utility token is required to sell coffee through the cooperative, participate in governance, and receive other benefits. The goal is to give a bit more power to bigger farms, but not too much.2/ Mint "lots"...

1/ Allocate membership tokens based on Log(production)Tokens = shares = votes. Most coops have a 1 member = 1 vote model. Instead, grant a utility token based on a Log(production) formula, e.g., a farm that produces 1000 units gets 3 tokens and a farm that produces 10 units gets 1 token. A utility token is required to sell coffee through the cooperative, participate in governance, and receive other benefits. The goal is to give a bit more power to bigger farms, but not too much.2/ Mint "lots"...

“In a free market the people are free, the ideas are locked up.” — Lewis HydeLewis Hyde’s book The Gift is a must-read. It’s a study of gift giving, its relationship to art, and the communities that form around these acts.“It is the one book I recommend without fail to aspiring writers and painters and musicians.” — Margaret AtwoodHow a gift economy differs from a market economyHyde describes this clearly:In a market economy, there’s an equilibrium state. You exchange goods of equivalent valu...

“In a free market the people are free, the ideas are locked up.” — Lewis HydeLewis Hyde’s book The Gift is a must-read. It’s a study of gift giving, its relationship to art, and the communities that form around these acts.“It is the one book I recommend without fail to aspiring writers and painters and musicians.” — Margaret AtwoodHow a gift economy differs from a market economyHyde describes this clearly:In a market economy, there’s an equilibrium state. You exchange goods of equivalent valu...

This page contains a two-week immersion program for people who are entirely new to web3. It consists of 14 discrete activities. Each activity should take less than an hour to complete. I recommend allocating about $300 $200 $100 $170 (0.1 ETH) for learning purposes, though you certainly won’t need to spend all of it. I recommend following the course in sequence, since concepts build progressively on top of each other. I’ve tried my best to provide detailed explanations and screenshots for eac...

This page contains a two-week immersion program for people who are entirely new to web3. It consists of 14 discrete activities. Each activity should take less than an hour to complete. I recommend allocating about $300 $200 $100 $170 (0.1 ETH) for learning purposes, though you certainly won’t need to spend all of it. I recommend following the course in sequence, since concepts build progressively on top of each other. I’ve tried my best to provide detailed explanations and screenshots for eac...