The WEB3 is a socioeconomic operating system
My focus is to make technology accessible to a non-tech audience so that all those who use technology can also take part in the decision-making process of the technology they use. The Web3 and it’s tokenized applications can shift the dynamics of our socio-economic systems, which is why a good understanding of the technology and it’s applications is fundamental to the process of co-creating this new collective infrastructure and it’s applications.
I am the author of the book Token Economy, the founder of Token Kitchen and BlockchainHub Berlin. In the past I was the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics which I also co-founded and a curator of the infamous TheDAO (Decentralized Investment Fund) back in 2016. I am currently setting up a data driven farm in Portugal with my partner where we investigate how to tokenize agricultural assets and sustainable ecosystem services such as soil quality or CO2 capture with the support of hardware wallets and sensor technology. I am Austrian, with Iranian roots, and now live in Portugal where I work on the intersection of technology, agriculture, art & social science.
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“Decentralisation” is a misleading term
Since many refer to the Web3 as the decentralized Web, I would like to spend some time critically reflecting this term. Personally, I am ...
Apr 27, 2022 / Read More
Token Economy
Given the big traction and overwhelming feedback I have received for the book Token Economy, I thinking about pivoting from my originaly ...
Jan 21, 2022 / Read More
A Surprising Journey to Alternative Publishing …
12 months after I put the book online for free on Github it has been translated by a group of volunteers into 9 different languages 6 of ...
Dec 31, 2021 / Read More
Italian Translation of “Token Economy”
I am happy to announce that the Italian translation of Token Economy is now also available on Github for free. Together with the translat...
Aug 27, 2021 / Read More
Token Engineering Commons
The aim of this post is to explain and summarize — in a nutshell — the activities around TEC (Token Engineering Commons) — their goals, t...
Jul 10, 2021 / Read More
NFT Use Case: Tokenizing Real Estate
The following text has been adapted from a chapter of the book Token Economy
Jun 28, 2021 / Read More
Translations of “Token Economy” into Spanish, Farsi and Polish
Thanks to the collaborative effort of so many volunteers the Spanish version has been finalized and is now fully available online on Gith...
May 24, 2021 / Read More
Biodiversity Tokens: Rebalance Earth
This is a sneak peak into my upcoming book with the focus on Token Economy Use Cases where I will be on analysing use cases of purpose-dr...
Apr 29, 2021 / Read More
Portugese and Brasilian Edition of ‘Token Economy’ on Github
In December 2020 I decided to release the book Token Economy on Github under a non commercial creative commons licence for several reasons:
Mar 25, 2021 / Read More
Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs)
The follwing text has been adapted from a chapter of the book Token Economy
Mar 15, 2021 / Read More