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Web3 and the New Digital Economy, a free technology course on Tomo

Web3 and the New Digital Economy

Like Duolingo, but for Web3 and the New Digital Economy. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

A deep dive: 33 levels across 5 sections, about 66 minutes end to end, roughly 13 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Your First Steps in Web3, Owning the Digital World, How the Engine Works, Navigating the Ecosystem, and Safety and the Road Ahead. It starts from scratch.

33 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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Web3 and the New Digital Economy
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What you'll learn

Key ideas in Web3 and the New Digital Economy

  • Direct peer-to-peer transfers
  • Permanence of records
  • Decentralized network maintenance
  • No central authority for reversals
  • The shift to peer-to-peer transfer
  • Permanence and immutability
  • A public address is safe to share and acts like a mailbox
  • Blockchains do not have 'business hours' or 'bank holidays'
  • The shift from centralized banking to peer-to-peer value transfer
  • The address allows anyone to send you assets but not take them out
  • The function of a digital address versus a private key
  • The network is always active as long as the internet is functioning
  • The permanence and immutability of blockchain transactions
  • Only an internet connection and a digital wallet are required
  • No credit checks, ID verification, or 'account approval' from a company is needed to join the network
  • The 24/7 availability of blockchain networks
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Web3 and the New Digital Economy the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Cutting Out the Middleman

If a transaction is successfully confirmed on a blockchain, what happens to that record?

Get it right to open this lesson and 32 more in the app.

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Where Web3 and the New Digital Economy takes you

Discover how blockchain technology is moving ownership from big corporations back to individuals. Learn to navigate wallets, tokens, and the decentralized apps shaping the future of the internet.

  1. 1

    Your First Steps in Web3

    • Sending Value Like an Email
    • The Digital Wallet
  2. 2

    Owning the Digital World

    • Tokenization: Making Everything Tradeable
    • NFTs Beyond Digital Art
  3. 3

    How the Engine Works

    • The Distributed Ledger
    • Decentralization and Trust
  4. 4

    Navigating the Ecosystem

    • Decentralized Apps (dApps)
    • DAOs: Organizations Without Bosses
    • DeFi: Banking Without Banks
  5. 5

    Safety and the Road Ahead

    • Staying Safe in the Wild West
    • The Future of Digital Identity

5 sections · 11 units · 33 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

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Web3 and the New Digital Economy is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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