Blockchain Fundamentals for Web 3.0
- Length: 580 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Epic Books
- Publication Date: 2022-10-07
- ISBN-10: 1682262251
- ISBN-13: 9781682262252
- Sales Rank: #1484591 (See Top 100 Books)
Our book explains the movement to establish online trust through the decentralization of value, identity, and data ownership. This movement is part of ‘Web 3.0’, the idea that individuals rather than institutions will control and benefit from online social and economic activities. Blockchain technologies are the digital infrastructure for Web 3.0. While there are many books on blockchains, crypto, and digital assets, we focus on blockchain applications for Web 3.0. Our target audience is students, professionals, and managers who want to learn about the overall Web 3.0 landscape—the investments, the size of markets, major players, and the global reach—as well as the economic and social value of applications.
We present applications that use Web 3.0 technologies to unlock value in DeFi, NFTs, supply chains, media, identity, credentials, metaverses, and more. Readers will learn about the underlying technologies, the maturity of Web 3.0 today, and the future of the space from thought-leaders. This textbook is used by undergraduate and graduate Blockchain Fundamentals courses at the University of Arkansas, the University of Wyoming, and other universities around the world. Professors interested in adopting this book for instructional purposes are welcome to contact the authors for supporting instructional materials.
Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Figures and Tables Foreword Authors' Acknowledgements Publication credits Contributors The book's cover art Part I: Blockchain Foundations Chapter 1: Restoring Trust with Blockchains 1.1. Trust is the foundation of a well-functioning society 1.2. Restoring trust with blockchain-based solutions 1.3. Blockchains as the architecture for Web 3.0 1.4. From an ‘Internet of Information’ to an ‘Internet of Value’ 1.5. From centralized/federated Internet identity models to SSI 1.6. From ‘surveillance capitalism’ to individual ownership and monetization 1.7. Conclusion Chapter 2: Blockchain Governance: Who’s the Boss? 2.1. Good boss, bad boss 2.2. Blockchain governance models 2.3. Blockchain governance decisions 2.4. Trade before and after a blockchain 2.5. Conclusion Chapter 3: The Blockchain Application Framework 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Distributed ledgers 3.3. Native digital assets 3.4. Cryptography 3.5. Consensus protocols 3.6. Smart contracts 3.7. Code bases 3.8. Blockchain application use cases 3.9. The blockchain application interface (‘access point’) 3.10. Mapping Bitcoin to the Blockchain Application Framework 3.11. A Bitcoin transaction from start to finish 3.12. Conclusion Chapter 4: The Global Blockchain Landscape 4.1 Overview of the landscape 4.2 Global crypto market 4.3 Investment and adoption 4.4 Enablers 4.5 Blockchain’s maturity 4.6. Conclusion: The landscape shifts rapidly Part II: Business Application Examples Chapter 5: Business Applications for Financial Services–Part 1 5.1. Overview of the cases 5.2. Global payments, currency exchange, and lending before blockchains 5.3. Ripple 5.4. Stellar 5.5. Aave 5.6. Conclusion Chapter 6: Business Applications for Financial Services–Part 2 6.1. Overview of the cases 6.2. Santander 6.3. we.trade 6.4. KoreConX 6.5. Conclusion Chapter 7: Business Applications for Supply Chains 7.1. Overview global supply chains 7.2. Overview of the cases 7.3. IBM Food Trust 7.4. VeChain 7.5. BeefChain 7.6. Everledger 7.7. OpsChain Traceability 7.8. DL Freight 7.9. VeriTX 7.10. Conclusion Chapter 8: Business Applications for Credentials 8.1. Overview of self-sovereign identity and credentials 8.2. The National Health Service 8.3. iDatafy SmartResume 8.4. Conclusion Chapter 9: Business Applications for Media 9.1. The fake news problem 9.2. Why do people believe fake news? 9.3. Means to combat fake news 9.4. ANSACheck 9.5. Conclusion Part III: Road to Maturity Chapter 10: Technical Challenges and Emerging Solutions 10.1. Introduction 10.2 Resource consumption 10.3. Security 10.4. Performance and scalability 10.5. Anonymity 10.6. Confidentiality 10.7 Interoperability 10.8. Conclusion Chapter 11: Innovations: If You Build It, Will They Come? 11.1. Introduction 11.2. Is the innovation likely to be adopted? 11.3. How can ecosystem partners be influenced to adopt the innovation? 11.4. Who is the best innovator for this type of innovation? 11.5. Should the innovation be built using blockchain technologies? 11.6. Ethical by design 11.7. Conclusion Chapter 12: The Future of Blockchains and Web 3.0 12.1 Introduction 12.2. Combinatorial innovations, metaverses, and beyond 12.3 Web 3.0 aspirations for decentralization and inclusivity: pipedream or inevitability? 12.4. Web 3.0’s greatest challenges 12.5. Are enterprises prepared for Web 3.0’s disruption? 12.6 Conclusion Glossary Index
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