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by crocodiletears 1663 days ago
What are the best resources for learning about the current state of web3 projects? Most of what I encounter with respect to it seems like marketing copy, without good summaries of the pros and cons that come with the different technologies and their roadmap.

There's clearly a lot going on in the space. But for someone who's at best adjacent to it, it's hard to sort the wheat from the chaffe.
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rasz 1663 days ago
>What are the best resources for learning about the current state of web3 projects?

https://cryptoscamdb.org/scams

https://twitter.com/scams_alarms

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dmitriid 1663 days ago
The article that @diveanon and @dannypovolotski are berating is a good learning resource.

Also, these two evergreen articles:

- "Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain", https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-...

- And the sequel, "Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future", https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle...

Any other "learning resource" about web3 are either thinly veiled scams, or can be solved with literally any other tech with none of the problems inherent in blockchains.

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initialized 1663 days ago
The status blog has some good posts covering daos+communities/wallets/zkproofs/clients => https://our.status.im/

https://www.youtube.com/c/ETHGlobal has lots of recordings of talks from their hackathons, their playlists split into different topics

https://www.radicalxchange.org/# is full of interesting discussions, organises meetups, more big picture discussions of the stuff web3/crypto is playing with

I enjoyed this conversation with Stuart Brand (of Whole Earth Catalogue) from a few years ago, it lays the ground of what then became NFTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLGZdLpHl1w

https://ethereum-magicians.org/ is a more technical forum to discuss eips

https://interdependence.fm/ is a good podcast from some musicians interviewing people in the space.

https://twitter.com/dhof Dom (creator of Vine) is constantly pushing novel toys on chain, i enjoy his playful approach to making stuff less serious.

really though its a "get involved to understand" scene/subculture. if you can ignore the noise of markets/speculation/capitalism its a fun crowd poking around. Theres all sorts from content/identity/scaling/money stuff/games. it feels like playing an mmorpg. at some point it'll hit its eternal september moment but its been really great the past few years.

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diveanon 1663 days ago
For a pretty great introduction on how to structure the FE of a web3 app I would take a look at PancakeSwaps GitHub, they have open sourced almost all of their code and it is pretty well written.

Many projects start as clones of that repo.

As far as use cases are concerned the best source of information has been and always will be the community itself.

All reputable projects produce white papers and they are usually more than happy to discuss questions and concerns in their community discords / telegram.

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