Table of contents : Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Rise of the DAOs King for a Day Does Your Vote Really Count? What a Wonderful, Trustless World Why the First DAO Had to Fall New-Age Tribes Chapter 2 When the World Becomes Your Village. . . When We Left Gold Behind. . . The Corruption of Trade Decentralized Trading, Reputation Tokens, and the Death of the Irresponsible Influencer-Marketer Can’t Buy Me Love. . . Chapter 3 The New Centralization Who Owns the Fed? To Teach the World to Sing in Perfect Harmony Central Bank Digital Currencies and Data Collection Is Anything Real Anymore? You Can’t Always Get What You Want. . . Chapter 4 Tower of Babel 2.0 Lost in Translation The Language of Progress The Byzantine Generals Problem Creating Consensus and Spreading It The Antichrist is Coming Chapter 5 Soul Beyond Face Value Digital Gangsters’ Paradise The Angry Face Algorithm It’s a Long Road From Rakhine If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next Your Soul Defines You Chapter 6 Back to Africa We are Family? We are Françafrique The Last Colonial Currency The African Union? The Last Digital Frontier Chapter 7 The American Way The United States of Isolation The Fall of the Petrodollar Defeating the Dollar The New Bretton Woods Chapter 8 When We Meet in the Metaverse. . . Beyond the Planet of the Bored Apes When Worlds Collide. . . A Meaningful Place Chapter 9 Of Builders and Villains. . . Walking on the Moon: The Rise and Fall of Terra LUNA Sex, Drugs, and Balance Sheets: How a Bunch of Kids Created and Destroyed FTX Speculation, the Language of Fools Chapter 10 The Nature of a Nurturer: Reflecting on the Klaytn Journey A Blockchain to Connect All Blockchains TPS is King Building on Top of The World’s Blockchain Shared Governance of a Shared Ecosystem Chapter 11 A Brave New World I’m Still Walking, So I’m Sure I Can Dance The First Days are the Hardest Days You Speak My Language Index EULA