I was always passionate about technology transformation and how adoption impacts both engineering and ways of working. Personally, I think this is really important to stay ahead of the curve. When it comes to new trends in technology, the Web3 is somewhere on top. Beyond the hype and questioning conventional assumptions of usability, scalability and environmental impact — this is interesting.

The experience of exploring is worthwhile, it reminds me of falling down the rabbit hole in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — she found herself falling down a very deep well into a fantasy world. The world of amazing things that are not necessarily logical at the first glance.

This article outlines my learning path to the web3 space. I’m trying to understand the full landscape of both emerging technologies and industry direction. This is rather a reading list, it doesn’t make sense to duplicate the content already available on the internet.

Before we get started talking about particular technology and solutions, it’s worth familiarizing yourself with some general concepts.

If you want to deep dive head to the document below.

Please make sure you understand the basics first.

Further reading at a16z Crypto Canon.

The Architecture of a Web 3.0 application is a good start to understanding the big picture and how to connect the docs. It shows the difference from typical applications available on the internet today.

Let’s move on and put extra time to explore specific areas of web3.

Some advanced topics:

I haven’t explored this space yet, will keep it updated over time.

I’m always looking at big players on the market. This is an invaluable source of information if you want to stay on top of and understand industry direction.

With my limited understanding of the web3 landscape, I‘ll continue to explore. For now, I share the same sentiment as outlined in Tokens in the attention economy article.

During thrill stages of a bull market, good players are not trying to buy the “best” assets. Instead, they are trying to buy the assets that are about to cross an attention chasm, or realise their valuation potential.

Attention is the only scarce resource in crypto.