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Part I - Foundations of Web3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2024

Ken Huang
Affiliation:
DistributedApps.ai
Youwei Yang
Affiliation:
Bit Mining Limited
Fan Zhang
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Xi Chen
Affiliation:
New York University
Feng Zhu
Affiliation:
Harvard Business School
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Web3
Blockchain, the New Economy, and the Self-Sovereign Internet
, pp. 1 - 70
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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