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Drumroll please 🥁....here are the most clicked links from last week's Long Reads Sunday.

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#5 One of the godfathers of the crypto space (as in, inventor of things like blind signatures OG) has a new blockchain project. @Adam_Tache recaps a recent presentation, summarizing everything shared so far
#4 At last weeks #bh2018, @brucefenton delivered this presentation arguing about how distributed ledgers will change traditional securities systems and, importantly, why the cypherpunk set should care.
#3 Who doesn't love a good benchmarking survey? @danzuller and Vision Hill present a framework for understanding and categorizing the different dimensions of the crypto asset market.
#2 Who is supposed to pay for public infrastructure in token networks? Are ecosystem funding DAOs an emergent killer app for decentralized governance? @ameensol shows off the code going into moloch.vc
And finally #1. Clearly, people are looking to zoom out and think big, because the most clicked link this week was @jbrukh's riff on "stateless smart-nations." Honestly after this week in politics, it's not hard to understand why.
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