Shermin Voshmgir

Blockchains & smart contracts have made it easy for anyone to create a token with just a few lines of code. The book gives an intro to tokens and the underlying technology, the socio-economic implications, and selected use cases. It is written for a general audience, features many graphics, and could be a useful textbook for university students.

How Blockchains and Smart Contracts Revolutionize the Economy

Token Economy

What is the Token Economy

Blockchain-based protocols like Bitcoin and Ethereum have made sending digital values in the form of tokens as cheap and easy as sending an email. But while cryptographic tokens (sometimes called "cryptocurrencies") may be as important to the next-generation internet as the World Wide Web was to Web 1.0, people aren't yet sure how to best design tokens or even what to do with them. In this report, Shermin Voshmgir, director of the Research Institute for Crypto Economics at the Vienna University of Economics, walks you through the different types of tokens, along with their properties and both operational and conceptual use cases. You'll get a concise overview of the current state of tokenization in our economy and explore the potential effects and dynamics of a future "token economy." You'll learn: What a token is A framework for determining the properties of a token Common use cases for different token types The relationship between tokens and money (including the functions of money that most current tokens don't fulfill) Where the token economy is headed.

What Is the Token Economy?

Marek Tuszynski

Alexa Clay

Jacob Appelbaum

Vinay Gupta

Angela Richter

Raúl Krauthausen

Andrea Bauer

Tomàš Sedláček

Cristina Riesen

Elizabeth Markevitch

Geraldine de Bastion

Manouchehr Shamsrizi

Masha McConaghy

Monika Frech

Boris Moshkovits

The Krypto Economy elaborates on the underlying dynamics of our digital era to better create a responsible technological future. Living in a world of exponential technological advancement, we have new construction kits to create and probe possible realities. Marshall McLuan once said that first we build the tools and then the tools build us. We are designed by what we have designed. To design a utopian rather than dystopian future, we took a closer look at the status and potentials of our technological tools. Over a series of seven panel discussions — using some of the most analytical and imaginative minds — we experienced that today's digital instruments are our ultimate Kryptonite. Its benefits have the capacity to aid us exponentially. And yet, its destructive powers — mass surveillance, elimination of privacy, or virtual concentration of power — could push us down a terrifying path. With this book you can join the discourse and find the answers to the most fundamental questions to better navigate towards a responsible technological future.

Conversations on the Digital Era

The Krypto Economy

Tatjana Novakovic

Martin Wildenberg

Christian Rammel

Blockchain, the Web3 & the SDGs : Sustainable Development Report

(Un)blocked Programming a Sustainable (world)

Monika Smith

Scot Carlson; Don Spampinato

Daniel Heltzel; Maren Beverung; Katharina Zwielich

Steffan Heuer

Christian Solmecke

Philip Siefer

Martin Sinner

Friedericke Rode

Curt Simon Harlinghausen

Business Purpose Design is an essential guide for a human-centric and holistic purpose for businesses. Discontinuity, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are driving forces of our world. Entire markets, industries, departments, and specialist areas interact and correlate with each other - unplanned and open-ended. In our world, orientation and a common driver is key to navigate, to distinguish relevant information from irrelevant, to take decisions and lead companies to create a positive future. Together with 32 outstanding personalities, from thought leaders, executives, founders, designers, and scientists, Monika looks at the 30 most relevant topics für purpose entrepreneurship. Bonus: Many examples, trend outlooks, and conceptional images inspire new thoughts and ideas - and reassure existing developments. Furthermore, takeaways for every topic offer a hands-on guide to act right away. With the Business Purpose Design model, organizations of any size can design, build, and grow their business towards becoming impact-driven. It provides a toolkit, and over 90 practical tips to design or and implement purpose within an organization right away. It allows for many perspectives. Co-created by over 32 practitioners from 30 disciplines. Illustrated with a critical eye by one of Europe's most sophisticated graphic-recording duo. Specially designed for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, coaches, managers, designers and leaders of all types of organizations. www.business-purpose.com

An essential guide for human-centric and holistic businesses

Business Purpose Design

Shermin Voshmgir

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