## Blockchain use cases

[Core Cryptocurrency Use Cases](http://blog.eladgil.com/2018/05/core-cryptocurrency-use-cases.html) by Elad Blog

[Popular Use Cases of Blockchain Technology You Need to Know Applications of Blockchain](https://hackernoon.com/popular-use-cases-of-blockchain-technology-you-need-to-know-df4e1905d373)

## dApps

[The dApp Developer Stack: The Blockchain Industry Barometer](https://medium.com/@FEhrsam/the-dapp-developer-stack-the-blockchain-industry-barometer-8d55ec1c7d4) Apr, 2017

## Business models

It seems that a critical question is what the business models are for the decentralized-network firms.
[Is decentralization the answer to Facebook’s data breach? Probably not.](https://medium.com/crypto-oracle/is-decentralization-the-answer-to-facebooks-data-breach-probably-not-5a0c0822cca7)

Sceptical view on trustless organizations [Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future](https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec) as well as by the same author [Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain](https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100)

how can business model and moral motivations work here?

[Internet 3.0 and the demise of state aggregators](https://www.tonysheng.com/stateful-protocols) and [Disaggregation Theory: where does value accrue in the decentralized web?](https://www.tonysheng.com/disaggregation-theory) - for builders, you must think about the value capture... I am thinking about it now in different contexts

### Some projects are worth following in every detail, especially if an expert of such a project will write occasionally in the Knowen-ecosystem

[What Are All These Blockchains And Crypto Assets Building?](https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/10/05/what-are-all-these-blockchains-and-crypto-assets-building/#1ba8b8311a02) Forbes, Oct 2017

[Mapping the blockchain project ecosystem](https://beta.techcrunch.com/2017/10/16/mapping-the-blockchain-project-ecosystem/) Oct, 2017

![app stack](https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/in/Documents/industries/in-convergence-blockchain-tech-stack-noexp.pdf 'blockchain stack')


## Best technical teams (based on opinions...)

[Proof of Work - BLOG](https://proofofwork.substack.com/)  Weekly updates from the best cryptocurrency projects, direct from the founding teams.

[Top 30 Cryptocurrencies (Names of Executives and Developers & Country of Incorporation)](https://steemkr.com/blockchain/@gspeagle/top-30-cryptocurrencies-names-of-executives-and-developers-and-location-of-servers-and-country-of-origin) aug, 2017

- Bitcoin Core
- Zcash
- Ethereum 
- Monero (?)
- Zilliqa (?) https://www.zilliqa.com/

[Centralize, then Decentralize -  Let’s stop playing pretend and start building](https://medium.com/@arjunblj/centralize-then-decentralize-6de1a0f9d2b0)