Web3 Resources

🌐  International Web3 News & Trends

🇳🇿 New Zealand

🗞️  Where are we at when it comes to Crypto?

🗞️  Futureverse merges 8 Web3 companies to create an open Metaverse

🗞️  Cryptocurrency Security Standard (CCSS) - Proof of Reserve (POR) Requirements

🎤  Bitcoin in NewZealand - How do we make it happen? Fountain Podcast

🇦🇺  Australia

📖  Australia’s Token Mapping Consultation Paper, February 2023

📖 Ministers Treasury Portfolio - Making Crypto Safer for Consumers, Feb 2023

🇺🇸 United States

📃 Operation Choke Point 2.0 is Underway, and Crypto Is In Its Crosshairs

🇯🇵  Japan

🗞️  Japan Mobile-Phone Operator NTT Docomo to Invest $4b into Web3

🌍  Global

🗞️  CoinBase - Regulating Crypto and how we move forward as an industry from here

⛓️  Blockchain Technology

• The 4 types of Blockchain technology (Guide) - Simple Learn
• Lightning Network Explained - Caleb & Brown
• Layer 1 & Layer 2 protocols - Cryptopedia
• On-chain metrics - Peter Foy
• Smart Contract builds on Blockchain - IBM
• Smart Contract Security (guide) - James Howell

⚡ Bitcoin

• The transformation of Value, a Bitcoin Podcast - Cody Ellington (Aotearoa)

📚 Web3 101

• Web3101: List of communities, education and curricula - Alli & Maxwell.
• What are DAO's? - Blockchain NZ.
• What is the metaverse? Definition, Features & Importance - Chiradeep BasuMallick.
• What are NFT's? And why they’re so cool  - Tech Innovations.

💦 Web3 Fundamentals

• Digital Identity - Digital Identity NZ
• Proof of Work(Guide) - Ledger Academy

🌳  Environment, Energy & Sustainability

• Electronic Money and the effect of Bitcoin on the environment - Electric Money
• Global Bitcoin Mining Data Review - Bitcoin Mining Council 2022
• Exxon Mining Bitcoin to slash emissions - CNBC
• Bitcoin Energy Usage - Lyn Alden
• Projecting Bitcoins Future Energy Usage - Bitcoin Mag
• Bitcoin Energy Debate - Coindesk
• Bitcoin - Why environmentalists need to relax - Beingcrypto
• The questionable ethics of Bitcoin - Bitcoin Mag
• Bitcoin: Cryptopayments Energy Efficiency - Apers.ssm
• Bitcoin Net Zero (Paper) - NYDIG

🌍  International Regulation: Accounting, Tax and Legal

• DAO legal structures (international comparisons) - Pontinova
• Crypto Tax (international comparisons) - CA Neetu Jain
• Crypto accounting and reporting considerations (Guide) - PWC
• NFT copyright and licensing - Metaroids

💼  New Zealand: Regulation Listing & Guidance

If you’re interested in learning more on how the below regulation applies to Web3 assets, check out the Web3NZ webinar with Minter Ellison Rudd Watts.

• Financial Markets Conduct Act
• Financial Markets Authority Act
• Anti-Money Launching and Countering Act (AML / CFT)
• Inland Revenue Department
• Consumer Guarantees ACT
• Crypto-asset regulation in New Zealand - Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
• Virtual Asset Service Providers - DIA Guidance
• Crypto Asset Service Providers New Zealand - FMA

💼  New Zealand: Bills and Proposals

• Current: Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Bill 2021
• Proposed: Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Bill 2022

🚀  Startups and Advisory

• Raising capital, top 10 Web3 pitch deck examples - Pitch Deck Hunt
• Advice for Web3 Builders in Bear Markets - Hunter Watkin 2023
• 6 Web3 Trends 2023 Report - A&T Capital
• The Ultimate Guide to Marketing for Web3 Startups - Afleet.io

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Community Building

• How to build a Web3 Community (Guide) - Val Baev
• The Gate - Gain Community Framework - Lets fucking build
• Enabling Community Co-creation - Bootcamp. UX Design
• Tokenized Communities - Forefront.xyz