Fem3 Voices Volume 5: Natalia 

By [Alli](https://twitter.com/sonofalli) and [Regan](https://twitter.com/reegannotraygan)


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​​**About Fem3 Voices**

Earlier this year, [Newstand](https://station.mirror.xyz/) published Alli's article, ["Fem3."](https://alli.mirror.xyz/OMO_xA1mXzxGuXkoKfvn-tRX_8zyU0rWeL5CBHY8DeI) The piece outlined the importance of including women and nonbinary (NB) individuals in building the foundations of Web3. "Fem3'' argued that we all can, and should, commit to onboarding and retaining more diverse talent and voices into this space. That commitment includes uplifting successful women and NB-led projects, work, and perspectives. This series, "Fem3 Voices," aims to do just that.

This interview series highlights the voices of powerful women and NB players in the web3 ecosystem. Each interview will be recorded on Twitter Spaces and accompanied by a subsequent article on Alli and Regan's mirror pages.

Most recently, we met with Natalia, the founder and CEO of Koop.

**Natalia’s Web3 Journey**

Like many of us, Natalia got into crypto during the Covid-19 pandemic. She was a student at USC studying neuroscience and data science and she found herself captivated with those building in the Web3 space. She eventually decided to jump all in and began building with [Juicebox Protocol](https://twitter.com/juiceboxETH) and [Shark DAO](https://twitter.com/sharkdao), and investing in NFTs with friends.

Natalia quickly realized that investing with friends wasn’t a seamless process. She had so many questions about tax obligations, ownership rights, and more. There wasn’t a way to collectively purchase, invest, and build alongside her friends–so they decided to create one for fun. What started out as a fun project by friends quickly turned into an exciting web3 startup: Koop.

**What is Koop?**

Koop is a platform that enables groups to collect, invest, and build together: “if you have a community that’s run in a crypto-native way, and you’d like to engage your community on-chain… the place to do that is Koop.” Currently, there are few options for multi-signature primitives that communities can use to enable cooperative group production and wealth generation on-chain. As Natalia puts it, there is only one strong multi-signature primitive today (gnosis), and it’s a governance primitive. This is “great for enterprise and business DAOs,” but anecdotally it has been difficult for some DAOs to maintain engagement and voter participation while running their treasuries on top of gnosis. The Koop team doesn’t think this is a problem at the product level, but at the protocol level, so they’re building different multi-signature primitives that can help enable various community frameworks.

When different communities– whether that’s a group of friends, a DAO, etc. launch on Koop, all members of a given “Koop” are granted permissions for particular actions based on an NFT pass they own. These tokenized communities can then leverage shared treasuries, purchase NFTs together, and more. Not only do membership NFTs allow for community members to contribute to different actions, but each pass is also a dynamic NFT: “As you contribute inside of your Koop, if it's just a group of friends investing, if you make strong investments decisions then your membership and NFT is dynamic it will level up at secondary markets and so the more you can contribute the more that your membership has value the more that your “squad” or your “Koop” has value and all of that money from secondary sales or contributions is funneled back into a shared treasury,” allowing members to share in group generated wealth.

**Squad Goals**

Koop started out as a project that was “just for fun,” as Natalia believes most projects should. As she began to learn more about the space, she relied heavily on her friends and close communities to answer questions, learn together, and more. They’re building Koop as a team not only to contribute something they feel is missing from the ecosystem, but also becau

Fem3 Voices Volume 4: Katherine Liu

**By [Alli](https://twitter.com/sonofalli) and [Regan](https://twitter.com/reegannotraygan)**


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**​About Fem3 Voices**

Earlier this year, [Newstand](https://station.mirror.xyz/) published Alli's article, ["Fem3."](https://alli.mirror.xyz/OMO_xA1mXzxGuXkoKfvn-tRX_8zyU0rWeL5CBHY8DeI) The piece outlined the importance of including women and nonbinary (NB) individuals in building the foundations of Web3. "Fem3'' argued that we all can, and should, commit to onboarding and retaining more diverse talent and voices into this space. That commitment includes uplifting successful women and NB-led projects, work, and perspectives. This series, "Fem3 Voices," aims to do just that.

This interview series highlights the voices of powerful women and NB players in the web3 ecosystem. Each interview will be recorded on Twitter Spaces and accompanied by a subsequent article on Alli and Regan's mirror pages.

Last week we sat down with Katherine Liu. Kat is a creator, and the founder of Formfunction: the most creator-focused NFT marketplace on Solana. 

**The Backstory: Kat’s Journey into Web3** 

Prior to her journey into crypto, Kat worked as a designer on anti-bullying and anti-harassment initiatives at Instagram. She became fascinated by web3 in early 2021 when NFTs started gaining widespread attention; her friends and her decided “NFTs would either be awesome for creatives or destroy the world.” In web2, she had seen and experienced the difficulty creators often faced juggling multiple income streams, spreading themselves thin across platforms to gain an audience, and facing hacks or shadowbans: “it just felt like a lot of the work of being a creative was stuff that you *had* to do but not the stuff that you *wanted* to do.” The idea that web3 technology could empower creators to have true ownership and optionality surrounding their work and audience was exciting to her, and she wanted to learn more.

**Introducing: Formfunction** 

Kat started her journey as a creator in web3 on Ethereum. Eventually, she decided to move all of her work to Solana because she wanted to use a more “eco-friendly” blockchain. As a designer, she quickly noticed that the UX on Solana “really needed a little bit of help.” She recalls telling her partner, “I wish there was a platform that was really easy to use for beginners on Solana.” 

All of a sudden, they were building that platform themselves. What originally began as a side-project quickly snowballed into much more. Kat and her partner saw a clear need for “a platform that’s focused on UX, and specifically designed around independent creators on Solana,” and thus, Formfunction was born.

Formfunction today is a marketplace hyper-focused on independent artists and their needs. Although some see Formfunction as the “SuperRare of Solana,” Kat admits that it isn’t their long-term goal. Instead, Kat hopes Formfunction will allow people to use NFT technology to “fund the work they’re really proud of creating.”

Kat also sees Formfunction as a tool to “expand opportunities in NFTs and NFT art to a broader set of people.”  While some short art-based NFTs on the belief that they have low utility, Kat believes art itself can be the utility: “There is more art-focused utility that we can add to NFTs that is not about staking, but rather about really connecting with the artist you’re collecting from…you can almost be an insider on their creative process.” 

**The Challenges: Balancing life as a creator, builder, and woman in web3** 

While Kat has been enjoying her time building Formfunction and practicing as a creative in web3, it has not come without challenges. Personally, Kat mentioned to us that although she identifies as an artist, she wonders if others still see her that way now. For example, she mentioned that “sometimes it's a little awkward talking with other artists \[in her founder role\] because I feel like maybe they don’t see me as another artist, like I have some ulterior motive.” She admits she so

Fem3 Voices Volume 3: Diana Chen 

***By [Alli](https://twitter.com/sonofalli) and [Regan](https://twitter.com/reegannotraygan)***


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**About Fem3 Voices**

Earlier this year, [Newstand](https://station.mirror.xyz/) published Alli's article, ["Fem3."](https://alli.mirror.xyz/OMO_xA1mXzxGuXkoKfvn-tRX_8zyU0rWeL5CBHY8DeI) The piece outlined the importance of including women and nonbinary (NB) individuals in building the foundations of Web3. "Fem3'' argued that we all can, and should, commit to onboarding and retaining more diverse talent and voices into this space. That commitment includes uplifting successful women and NB-led projects, work, and perspectives. This series, "Fem3 Voices," aims to do just that.

This interview series highlights the voices of powerful women and NB players in the web3 ecosystem. Each interview will be recorded on Twitter Spaces and accompanied by a subsequent article on Alli and Regan's mirror pages.

Last week we spoke with [Diana Chen](https://twitter.com/ddwchen?s=21&t=5mty12NkJjPuaZH10xQxew). Diana is the founder of [Rehash](https://twitter.com/rehashweb3): a web3 podcast–the first podcast DAO.

**Diana’s Journey into Web3**

In her past life, Diana practiced as an attorney before quitting to explore and travel the world in 2017. While traveling, she started a travel blog, but found it difficult to make income as a content creator in the web2 world. Eventually, she found a fully remote content marketing agency that helped B2B businesses start their own podcast. While working there, she was inspired to start her first podcast “Startup Happy Hour,” which highlighted the stories of founders, executives, designers, and developers at web2 companies. At the time, the founder of Unstoppable Domains found her podcast and hired the marketing agency she worked for to help start the UD podcast. After a bit, he asked Diana if she would be interested in working for them full time. Back then, Diana didn’t know much about crypto or web3–it was a risky move to make, but she was confident enough to take the jump, and as she says, *“the rest is history.”*

**Rehash: Web3’s First Podcast DAO**

After spending some time with the team at Unstoppable Domains, Diana went on to work at Rabbithole on their company podcast. Early into 2022 with over 150 web3 or crypto related podcast episodes under her belt, Diana started to reflect on her work: “I had always been doing it for somebody else, like I didn’t own any of the podcasts that I had been working on for the last year and a half.” Rather than recording her own content, she had always been making it for somebody else. She knew that “one thing Web3 is severely lacking is good content,” and she knew she had experience building content, and further, community around said content. The missing piece was *ownership*, which is part of what inspired her to build Rehash: Web3’s first Podcast DAO.

Diana envisioned a podcast produced and owned by its contributors and listeners– members of the DAO could vote on what guests to bring on, what the structure of the conversations should be, what questions to ask guests, etc. She wanted to create a more structured and on-chain way for sourcing podcast content, and formulating strong community and ownership over the content being created. In April of 2022, she officially launched RehashDAO’s [crowdfund. ](https://rehash.mirror.xyz/crowdfunds/0xa3659D161757C6c88e667CC022B93bcCfa01dB27)Diana raised almost 30 ETH, with each donor receiving the opportunity to nominate and vote on their “favorite guests, topics, and other aspects of the pod” in return for their contribution.”

Season 1 of Rehash was pre-recorded with Diana + guests that she invited after crowdsourcing ideas from her twitter community. There are 12 incredible episodes that you can find [here](https://rehash.simplecast.com/). DAO members are [currently](https://rehash.mirror.xyz/PVu8B0QyhkxdAtNGOmIXJC3xL94WmJQU1jYKqWhk5mo) finishing up voting on over 41 proposals submitted for season 2 guests on the pod. E

Fem 3 Voices Volume 2: Gaby Goldberg

***By [Alli](https://twitter.com/sonofalli) and [Regan](https://twitter.com/reegannotraygan)***


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**About Fem3 Voices**

Earlier this year, [Newstand](https://station.mirror.xyz/) published Alli's article, ["Fem3."](https://alli.mirror.xyz/OMO_xA1mXzxGuXkoKfvn-tRX_8zyU0rWeL5CBHY8DeI) The piece outlined the importance of including women and nonbinary (NB) individuals in building the foundations of Web3. "Fem3'' argued that we all can, and should, commit to onboarding and retaining more diverse talent and voices into this space. That commitment includes uplifting successful women and NB-led projects, work, and perspectives. This series, "Fem3 Voices," aims to do just that.

This interview series highlights the voices of powerful women and NB players in the web3 ecosystem. Each interview will be recorded on Twitter Spaces and accompanied by a subsequent article on Alli and Regan's mirror pages.

This week we spoke with **[Gaby Goldberg.](https://twitter.com/gaby_goldberg)** Gaby is a writer and an investor at TCG crypto. She is also a Twitter influencer and perhaps most well known in the space for her web3 reading list– an excellent curation of information for newbies to crypto.

**Journey to Web3**

Gaby's infatuation with digital life and the Internet began at a young age. While she grew up with the Internet, like all of her Gen-Z peers, she developed an early relationship and presence in online communities because she was selectively mute until the age of 5. As a result, Gaby found refuge online in games like Minecraft, Runescape, and their respective communities. By the time she was a teenager, she had built connections and brands through her viral Tumblr blog. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in spring of 2020, and many of us struggled to sustain our social relationships and interactions from "real life" in a more digitized world, Gaby was transported to her interconnected life of the past: "in a lot of ways, I had had this experience of truly living a, like, digital life before COVID. And so in large part I was able to sort of thrive during COVID because I was so used to spending my time online."

Like many others, Gaby lost her job in the pandemic. Luckily, she quickly found her footing with [Chapter One](https://chapterone.com/en/). In her time there, Gaby was introduced to the concept of the "[creator economy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc2m_NfxZj8)," but quickly perceived that the existing tools and projects surrounding said economy were only "bringing us halfway there," so she began to dig in and research a bit deeper.

There were two pivotal moments for Gaby that transitioned her fully into the world of Web3. In her early research on the creator economy, Gaby learned that Apple takes 30% of the revenue from creators who place their apps on the Apple Store. This astounded her: “maybe for a big business 30% is just a line on the balance sheet but for creators and for all of these companies who preach about people being their own business online 30% is a lot of money.”

Her second “aha” moment occurred when Facebook and its host of apps, including Whatsapp and Instagram, went down for a few hours last year. She realized, “like holy shit, these companies go down tomorrow and if they take away our platform tomorrow – especially for creators and influencers who make a living online – they would have nothing.”

These moments struck something in Gaby. She wondered what it would mean for creators to own their data: "what would it mean to have ownership in these platforms that we already build and operate every day?" Motivated by this question, Gaby jumped headfirst into Web3 and found a home at [TCG](https://tcg.co/team/gaby-goldberg/), where she currently works as an investor focused on the intersection of consumer and crypto.

**Gaby’s Mission**

Before her journey in Web3, Gaby, like many other people, initially struggled to find her purpose. She comes from a family of doctors and saw how fulfilled her family members

Fem3 Voices Volume 1: Station’s Conductors 


*By [Alli](https://twitter.com/sonofalli) and [Regan](https://twitter.com/reegannotraygan)* 


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**Fem3 Introduction**  

Earlier this year, Newstand published Alli’s article, “Fem3.” The piece outlined the importance of including women and nonbinary (NB) individuals in building the foundations of Web3. “Fem3” argued we all can, and should, commit to onboarding and retaining more diverse talent and voices into this space. Part of that commitment includes uplifting successful women and NB-led projects, work, and perspectives.This series, “Fem3 Voices,” aims to do just that. 

This interview series highlights the voices of powerful women and NB players in the web3 ecosystem. Each interview will be recorded on Twitter Spaces and accompanied by a subsequent article on Newstand. We are kicking things off with Station’s own women co-founders, Tina and Mind. 

![](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/U5gR-X-7uf0RDFVuOOo_m.png?height=2000&width=4000)

**[Tina](https://twitter.com/fkpxls) and [Mind](https://twitter.com/spicypaprika_) co-founded [Station](https://station.express/): a platform designed to help people redefine their definition of success. Station’s goal is to create opportunities for a new genre of work by building on-chain public infrastructure.** 

The idea behind Station– of reigniting passionate work and redefining success– is one deeply personal to both founders. Tina and Mind come from developing economies, where people often lack the luxury of the so-called “American Dream.” Instead, notions of success are dictated by a centralized government focusing on their own financial growth. Both women witnessed such economic priorities push their friends and family into career paths where their creativity, happiness, and wisdom was diminished– they were contributing to work and in ways where they were unable to leverage their full potential. 

As college peers, Tina and Mind often discussed such perils of the emerging economies they experienced. In early 2020, they realized a new economy had begun to emerge: crypto transactions and currencies were changing how people interacted, organized, and transacted– it had the potential, they believed, to change the future of work. 

Alongside another co-founder and a small team, the two have built a platform that connects contributors, DAOs, and initiatives across Web3. So what has co-conducting Station been like for these two women, and where does the train go from here? 

Let’s jump in. 

**Gender Identity** 

In Fem3, we discussed the gender imbalance in tech and further, that in crypto. For both Tina and Mind, gender was not something they particularly thought about until they came to America for university and began working in tech. For Tina, “Gender wasn’t apparent as an identity that defines \[herself\] from \[her\] ideas, interests, and other passions.” When she got into crypto, she began to notice this aspect of her identity a bit more: “Crypto makes it a little more obvious when you go to these conferences and you’re kind of the only woman that is there” or when others “have a perception you’re not working in \[crypto\] for whatever reasons there are.” Tina notes how it has been especially frustrating to balance her  intellectual interests as a female founder with the hostility she sometimes feels when engaging with communities in web3 discourse. Alli discussed this in her Fem3 article: “Women and NB individuals can be intellectually curious about something or have a desire to contribute to the discourse around it, but the presence of abuse and harassment might prohibit them from participating authentically and completely.” 

For Mind, she aims to use such experiences and challenges Tina described to make web3 a safer space for all people to contribute. Similarly to Tina, Mind didn’t perceive her gender identity as playing a major role in her work until she entered the tech industry. While neither woman feels entirely defined by their gender in their work, 

The Perils of D.Y.O.R.

*Originally posted on [station.mirror.xyz](https://station.mirror.xyz)*

*Author: [Alli (@sonofalli)](https://twitter.com/sonofalli)*

*Editor/Graphics: [Tina (@fkpxls)](https://twitter.com/fkpxls)*


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### “Do Your Own Research”

If you scroll through almost any corner of  Crypto Twitter (CT) for long enough, it is almost inevitable that you come across those four words. The slogan of sorts, which gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic surrounding vaccines, masks, and more, has quickly become popular in the emerging ecosystem and rhetoric surrounding Crypto and Web3. Oftentimes it is used as a disclaimer– often paired with the other infamous CT phrase: “Not financial advice.” Yet, when advice to “DYOR” appears between content on how we are “so early” or every up and coming “Web3 101'' educational thread or resource attempting to resolve the steep learning curve of crypto, what emerges is a deep juxtaposition– how can we expect individuals to thoughtfully and effectively “do their own research” if they are still learning about or early to the space?

The Blockchain allows for public and  permanent absolute truth or proof. This makes the notion of researching to find facts and answers seem practical. Oftentimes though, deciphering “truth” requires that one has the technical knowledge to understand “facts” or “forensics” where they often appear in crypto: at the smart contract or data level. It is more than likely that the average person surfing CT does *not* have this technical literacy or foundation, and as a result, experiences difficulty attempting to distill signals from noise. In this scenario, “DYOR” can easily become dangerous advice, simply because most people *cannot* or *do not* know how to “research.” Instead, “DYOR” becomes the equivalent of  “check what your favorite Twitter anon or thought leader has to say about this coin/project/NFT and decide from there.” This sensation is alarmingly unsafe and uninformed. **This article aims to address such perils of “Do Your Own Research,” how they were created and are perpetuated, and how one can attempt to actually and adequately DYOR.**

### The Rise of “DYOR”

Prior to COVID-19, the phrase “DYOR” was largely reserved to conspiracy theorist groups, and various corners of QAnon or Reddit. As the globe shifted into the pandemic in late 2020, those four little words became increasingly prevalent on social media platforms, blogs, and forums across the world. As publicizing newfound, and oftentimes contrarian, “researched” opinions on wildly complex scientific topics got rewarded on social media with catchy headlines, the world was facing another epidemic of distrust and skepticism surrounding expert opinion. The problem with this “is that most people simply don’t know how to do their own research” ([These four words are helping spread vaccine misinformation - CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/19/media/reliable-sources-covid-research/index.html)). In many cases, experts in a given field have spent years or the bulk of their lifetime developing a comprehensive, extensive understanding of their field. You might be deemed an expert in your own field or passion, and it likely took time to build up that knowledge: “in our own fields, we are aware of the full suite of data, of how those puzzle pieces fit together, and what the frontiers of our knowledge is. When laypersons espouse opinions on those matters, it’s immediately clear to us where the gaps in their understanding are and where they’ve misled themselves in their reasoning” ([You Must Not 'Do Your Own Research' When It Comes To Science](https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/07/30/you-must-not-do-your-own-research-when-it-comes-to-science/?sh=17e52171535e)). In addition to this, oftentimes when individuals set out to “do their own research,” they might consciously or subconsciously be looking for information or content that supports their desired beliefs or opinions– falling victim to [confirmation bias](

Fem 3: Thoughts from a Woman and Contributor in Web3

***Originally posted on [station.mirror.xyz](https://station.mirror.xyz/WcsYRAdMaQO0rgh8ZkfkEH416Tj7M2PK37-B6PfDJTI)***

*Author: [Alli (@sonofalli)](https://twitter.com/sonofalli)*

*Editor/Graphics: [Tina (@fkpxls)](https://twitter.com/fkpxls)*


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> ***“Identity is a potent force that we ignore and misread at our peril”***
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> – ***Caroline Criado-Pérez, [Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/64218580)***

When I was in 5th grade, an “internet safety officer” from our local government came to visit my classroom. He sat at the front of our classroom for two hours on a rainy afternoon and proceeded to scare the sh\*t out of my peers and me, talking about digital identity and stranger danger online. At the end of the second hour, the officer–we will call him “Tom”–told the boys to go outside and play while the girls stayed back to talk about “gender-specific internet violence and safety best practices.” Tom, a middle-aged white man, then explained to the classroom of largely pre-pubescent 5th grade girls the importance of hiding our gender online. He discussed the hyper-sexualization of women and girls online and noted that if we did not want to be kidnapped, assaulted, harassed, etc. we should keep our gender identity hidden from the world. 5th grade me took this advice and ran with it. I have Tom to thank for my entire Webkinz collection and initial online usernames being named things like “Craig” and “Paul”. 5th grade me, however, never would have imagined how relevant Tom’s words would still be almost 15 years later.

![This was Paul.](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/DXqyVz-i1r9IWK7FdsQME.jpeg?height=599&width=553)

Obviously, I am no longer surfing the interweb as “Paul.” My digital identity has taken on several different iterations over the past decade, and now in web3, I am curating a new one. While I have made the choice to reveal my gender identity and femininity in online spaces now, not all women or fem presenting/identifying individuals have chosen to do the same. There is value in the fact that we don’t *need* to reveal these components of our identity online (and value in that many women and non-binary individuals do *not)*, but there are also negative implications for how this can impact the ecosystem we are building in web3.

## Anonymity & Femininity

The world we live in has been curated and crafted for men. Caroline Criado Peréz completes a deep examination of this in *Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.* Our cars, medications, workplaces, and more were constructed based on research and testing that largely overlooked more than half of the human population. The internet is not exempt from this bias. Rather, the online world has become yet another space where “whiteness and maleness are implicit. They are unquestioned. They are the default” ([Pérez, 2019](https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Women-Data-World-Designed/dp/1419729071)). Globally, men are 14% more likely to have internet access and 7% more likely to have access to mobile phones ([Inclusive Internet Index, 2021](https://theinclusiveinternet.eiu.com/summary)). On top of that, women have a significantly higher chance of experiencing harassment or violence online, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this online abuse ([Web Foundation, 2020)](https://webfoundation.org/2020/07/theres-a-pandemic-of-online-violence-against-women-and-girls/). These numbers and rates only increase for transgender women, non-binary (NB) individuals, and women of color ([Time, 2019)](https://time.com/5710466/transphobic-abuse-online-study/).

![A recent example of online harassment targeting women](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/wK-fNQQbMzOMvWjxW67QJ.png?height=964&width=1204)

Women and NB individuals can be intellectually curious about something or have a desire to contribute to the discourse around it, but the presence of abuse and harassment might prohibit them

The 411 on Web3 101's: a Collective List of Web3 Learning Experiences and Resources

*By [Maxwell](https://twitter.com/KatwellKat?s=20) and [Alli](https://twitter.com/sonofalli)*

### Introduction

Learning and education are fundamental pillars of web3. Everyone in the space–from seasoned blockchain developers to someone buying cryptocurrency for the first time–is constantly engaging with, and taking in endless information.

2021, as so many have recently noted, was a wild year in the crypto/web3 space. The increasing noise surrounding web3, crypto, NFTs, etc. resulted in a rise of visitors, contributors, and builders in the web3 ecosystem. This rise in visitors and contributors has since been ensued by a proliferation of educational “Web3 101” content.

### What is web3 educational content and why does it matter?

Crypto has been experiencing exponential growth and mainstream adoption. Far too often, newcomers in the space say “I’m not smart enough to understand crypto,” “this stuff is way too complicated for me,” or “how can I stay safe and avoid scams?”

Crypto *is* complicated and blockchain-based technologies provide an entirely new global infrastructure that is radically changing every industry. The complexity of crypto and the seismic shift in global infrastructure makes the learning curve seem unbelievably steep and can deter those with valuable voices, backgrounds, and skills from entering the space. However, this perceived steep learning curve should in no way turn people away, or shut people down from approaching the ecosystem. Web3 educational content must address these barriers by providing accessible and meaningful learning resources and communities that enable new contributors to learn the basics of crypto. The world of web3 education is new and has a long way to go in terms of creating truly engaging and accessible material, but existing resources provide  a foundation that newcomers can begin to learn with, and future web3 educators can begin to build on.

**Below, we’ll explore some different web3 101 curricula and resources that have recently emerged and what they offer interested learners. We hope this small snapshot of the current web3 educational offerings will help newcomers (and veterans alike!) know where to begin and how to proceed on their learning/building journeys.**

*This is by no means an exhaustive list, and if you know of any great crypto-educational resources that aren’t listed here, please DM us on Twitter [@KatwellKat](https://twitter.com/KatwellKat) and [@sonofalli](https://twitter.com/sonofalli)*

### Web3 101 - Curricula, Courses, & Communities

[Crypto, Culture, & Society](https://cryptosociety.notion.site/Crypto-Culture-Society-01f39bcff26b422183061e6011b16892) (CCS) coined the concept of a learning DAO. They are examining the impact of crypto on culture and society. CCS is aiming to build the liberal arts education for crypto, and they have recently put together a great web3 starter pack that explores web3, DAOs, NFTs & DeFi. This is a terrific resource, and would be a great place to start.

[Curious Addy’s Trading Club](https://www.curiousaddys.com/) (CATC) is an educational NFT project where users who hold NFTs are granted access to a web3 learning community embedded within a game. From their site, “CATC is carefully designed to teach new users how to buy crypto on exchanges, set up a wallet, interact with smart contracts and NFTs, become crypto trading pros, and so much more, all while having fun playing a game.” This game allows young learners to engage in a virtual world built on polygon in which they can safely make transactions and learn web3 wallet hygiene without the risk of losing money. While targeted at young learners, this platform also helps remove the financial barrier to access in “learning by doing” in crypto. Learning how to make transactions, mint NFTs, and interact with a digital wallet without the financial risk or hurdle can allow even more users to engage with the web3 ecosystem. This is one of the more exciting projects, and it will be extremel