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Token Economics & Decentralized Finance

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Shermin Voshmgir edited this page Jun 1, 2021 · 1 revision

This part will focus on cryptographic tokens as the atomic unit of the Web3. The first chapter will explain the properties and functions of money and outline the emerging field of decentralized finance (DeFi) that might power a potential future digital barter economy. The following chapters will focus on specific DeFi applications such as stable tokens and privacy tokens, as well as the topic of issuing, trading, and lending of tokens.

Token Economy: How the Web3 reinvents the Internet.
Second edition, first amended printing, Nov 2020. The first edition was published by BlockchainHub Berlin https://blockchainhub.net in June 2019 under the title “Token Economy: How Blockchain & Smart contracts revolutionize the Economy” and had two amended editions.

Author: Shermin Voshmgir
BibTeX: @book{voshmgir2020token, title={Token Economy: How the Web3 reinvents the Internet}, author={Voshmgir, Shermin}, year={2020}, publisher={Token Kitchen} }

LICENCE: Copyleft 2020, Shermin Voshmgir:Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.
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Comments: There are various possibilities of forking the text of the book: You could add code contributions to the theoretical examples mentioned in this book, create future iterations with new /modified chapters or translate this book into another language, and distribute it non-commercially (for free). To do this you can fork the wiki and start translating the texts under your own Github account anytime and publish the modified/translated book on Github directly. I can send you the original AI files for creating translated version of the graphics. Please not that with this licence you are not allowed to sell the book or use it for other commercial projects, but I can try and support you get funding with a Gitcoin Grant or any other crowdfunding campaign, so you get money for the work you put in. 

If you plan a translation, or other iteration of the book, best to coordinate with me to avoid redundancies, in case someone else is already working on a similar translation/version. 

Print book (paperback & hardcopy) and eBook editions are also available on Amazon (https://amzn.to/2W7lQ8h) & other online bookstores. Other languages: https://github.com/Token-Economy-Book/

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