The Best Articles, Videos, and Newsletters in Web3 / Blockchain
The most useful articles, videos, and newsletters in Web3 / Blockchain from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Web3 / Blockchain Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Web3 / Blockchain by Refind users in 2026 so far.
- The Web3 Movement’s Quest to Build a ‘Can’t Be Evil’ Internet
- People Don't Find DAOs, DAOs Find Them w/Jon Hillis
- The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
- A new kids' show will come with a crypto wallet when it debuts this fall
- CoreWeave co-founder explains how a closet of crypto-mining GPUs led to a $1.5B IPO
Videos
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People Don't Find DAOs, DAOs Find Them w/Jon Hillis
On this episode of Rehash, we’re talking with Jon Hillis, Co-Founder of Cabin DAO. Cabin DAO is a community for web3 creators and an experiment in decentrali...
Bitcoin’s New Record Highs: What’s Changed Since 2021’s Crypto Rally
Bitcoin’s value hit a new record this year, exceeding its Covid-era high and shocking investors. In 2024, inflation has largely settled, consumers are still ...
How to Structure Your Web3 Funding
Structuring your Web3 funding correctly can help make sure that you, the founder, as well as the community you build benefit fairly, instead of turning over ...
The Wonders of Web3 And Much More
Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefi...
SFF 2022 | Next 10 Years: Building the Crypto Economy, Scaling Web3 Innovation & Weathering Storms
SFF 2022 | Next 10 Years: Building the Crypto Economy, Scaling Web3 Innovation & Weathering Storms4 Nov, 12:15 PM at the Global Plenary, SFFThis session will...
What is ...?
New to Web3 / Blockchain? These articles make an excellent introduction.
What Is Web3 and Why Are All the Crypto People Suddenly Talking About It?
Was there a Web2?????
The Curious Beginner's Guide to Crypto
This post “explains like I’m five” core crypto concepts: web 3, blockchain (wallets, consensus), tokens, bitcoin, ethereum, NFTs, and DAOs. Let's go down the rabbit hole together.
What is Web3
The internet is going through a paradigm shift. Learn the differences between Web2 and Web3, and why many developers and companies are shifting their approach in building apps.
«VerifiableTrustlessSelf-governingPermissionlessDistributed and robustStatefulNative built-in payments»
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Web3 / Blockchain—all under 10 minutes.
A new kids' show will come with a crypto wallet when it debuts this fall
A new animated kids’ series expected to premiere this year won’t be headed for a TV network. Or a streaming service. Instead, the founders of A new animated kids’ series won’t be headed for a TV…
Why Crypto Leaders Are Feeling Optimistic About the Future
TIME100 talks panelists agreed that a focused bill regulating stablecoins could help cement the U.S. dollar’s dominance.
CoreWeave co-founder explains how a closet of crypto-mining GPUs led to a $1.5B IPO
CoreWeave co-founder Brian Venturo knows that three hedge fund guys, turned crypto miners, now running AI training infrastructure has been a wild ride.
Sam Altman’s eye-scanning project launches cryptocurrency in the US
Would you scan your eyes for crypto?
Senate Dems propose ban on presidents investing or endorsing crypto assets
Democrats call the Trump meme coin contest “profoundly corrupt.”
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Web3 / Blockchain.
The Web3 Movement’s Quest to Build a ‘Can’t Be Evil’ Internet
Crypto dreamers want to free us from Big Tech and exploitative capitalism—using only the blockchain, game theory, and code. What could possibly go wrong?
Crypto scammers hack OpenAI's press account on X
OpenAI's official newsroom account on X was compromised by cryptocurrency scammers.
The crypto founder who didn't save Puerto Rico after all
In Puerto Rico, tax breaks enacted in 2012 aimed to juice the economy by encouraging mainland U.S. citizens to do business and live on the island, where
Tune.FM wants to take on Spotify by using crypto to pay artists up to 100x more per…
Tune.FM is a decentralized music streaming service where users pay for each song they stream using Tune.FM's crypto token JAM.
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters.
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