Introduction ix1 Rise of the DAOs 1King for a Day 5Does Your Vote Really Count? 8What a Wonderful, Trustless World 10Why the First DAO Had to Fall 13New-Age Tribes 152 When the World Becomes Your Village. . . 19When We Left Gold Behind. . . 27The Corruption of Trade 30Decentralized Trading, Reputation Tokens, and the Death of the IrresponsibleInfluencer-Marketer 32Can't Buy Me Love. . . 353 The New Centralization 39Who Owns the Fed? 42To Teach the World to Sing in Perfect Harmony 46Central Bank Digital Currencies and Data Collection 49Is Anything Real Anymore? 51You Can't Always Get What You Want. . . 554 Tower of Babel 2.0 61Lost in Translation 66The Language of Progress 68The Byzantine Generals Problem 72Creating Consensus and Spreading It 75The Antichrist is Coming 775 Soul Beyond Face Value 81Digital Gangsters' Paradise 86The Angry Face Algorithm 91It's a Long Road From Rakhine 95If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next 98Your Soul Defines You 1006 Back to Africa 105We are Family? We are Françafrique 113The Last Colonial Currency 117The African Union? 120The Last Digital Frontier 1227 The American Way 129The United States of Isolation 137The Fall of the Petrodollar 140Defeating the Dollar 148The New Bretton Woods 1548 When We Meet in the Metaverse. . . 159Beyond the Planet of the Bored Apes 163When Worlds Collide. . . 170A Meaningful Place 1779 Of Builders and Villains. . . 185Walking on the Moon: The Rise and Fall of Terra LUNA 190Sex, Drugs, and Balance Sheets: How a Bunch of Kids Created and Destroyed FTX 201Speculation, the Language of Fools 21110 The Nature of a Nurturer: Reflecting on the Klaytn Journey 215A Blockchain to Connect All Blockchains 220TPS is King 225Building on Top of The World's Blockchain 227Shared Governance of a Shared Ecosystem 22911 A Brave New World 235I'm Still Walking, So I'm Sure I Can Dance 240The First Days are the Hardest Days 243You Speak My Language 247Index 253
DAVID SHIN was the Global Group Head at Klaytn, a Forbes Blockchain Top 50 company and the blockchain arm of Korean internet company Kakao. He is currently overseeing business development in EMEA and Asia for Immutable X, a well funded Australian web3 game and NFT startup. He has also previously held the roles of Head of Exchange at Bitcoin.com and Head of TZ APAC, an adoption entity supported by the Tezos Foundation.