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Learning: (Added multiple links for certain topics, so there will be repetition of concepts that you can  just glance through)

1. Intro Videos:

   • How does blockchain work:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSo_EIwHSd4

   • How does Bitcoin work:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4

2. Quick high level intro articles:

   What is #cryptocurrency? AKA #Crypto

   About Blockchain Technology - Knowledge Base - ConsenSys

   What is Decentralization?

3. Intro to crypto: Videos

   • a16z cyrpto school https://a16z.com/crypto-startup-school
   • Focus on videos 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 ,8, 9, 11. rest can be glanced or skipped
   • Here’s the same course with additional footnotes https://a16z.com/2020/12/28/crypto-users-guide/

4. Blockchain Glossary: Do google and deep dive into any of the terms:

   • https://blockchainhub.net/blockchain-glossary/

5. How Ethereum works: (Highly Technical, can be read last)

   • https://preethikasireddy.medium.com/how-does-ethereum-work-anyway-22d1df506369

6. About the product/market Arcana operates in:

   What Is Decentralized Storage?

   What Is Decentralized Storage?: A Deep Dive by Filecoin | CoinMarketCap

   • https://skeps.com/blog/an-introduction-to-decentralized-storage-systems
   • (can just glance through this) https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/storage/

   Arcana's guiding principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design

7. Intro to Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Articles

   • https://decrypt.co/resources/defi-ultimate-beginners-guide-decentralized-finance
   • https://endofthechain.com/intro-to-defi/#:~:text=DeFi today is defined by,to be thrown in prison.
   • https://blog.coinbase.com/a-beginners-guide-to-decentralized-finance-defi-574c68ff43c4
   • https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-decentralized-finance-defi
   • A definitive book on Defi if you are feeling nerdy, with tonnes of resources and links included.

   How to DeFi.pdf

8. Token Economics:

   • https://applicature.com/blog/blockchain-startups/what-is-token-economics
   • https://hackernoon.com/token-economics-1-why-do-we-need-token-economics-2c0006098aea

9. Consensus Mechanisms: Proof of work, proof of stake, delegated proof of stake

   • https://blockgeeks.com/guides/blockchain-consensus/

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3EFi_POhps

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVKAOwzAwHI

   • 3- part articles
     • Part 1 https://medium.com/loom-network/understanding-blockchain-fundamentals-part-1-byzantine-fault-tolerance-245f46fe8419
     • Part 2 https://medium.com/loom-network/understanding-blockchain-fundamentals-part-2-proof-of-work-proof-of-stake-b6ae907c7edb
     • Part 3 https://medium.com/loom-network/understanding-blockchain-fundamentals-part-3-delegated-proof-of-stake-b385a6b92ef
   • https://blockgeeks.com/guides/proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake/
   • https://www.leewayhertz.com/proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake/
   • https://consensys.net/blog/blockchain-explained/what-is-proof-of-stake/

• Fun reading, okay to skip:
• https://decrypt.co/resources/non-fungible-tokens-nfts-explained-guide-learn-blockchain - https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq

Some topics are invariably skipped or out of order. Below two resources are highly detailed and in order, with coverage of a wide variety of areas in Blockchain and Crypto.

More Importantly, it covers the philosophies and social impact.

Highly suggest going through them and skipping/glancing through the parts you've already read above: