What follows is an adaptable outline of DAG knowledge tree (DAG structure, same item may appear in several branches):

* History
	* Historical lessons and comparisons: gold, internet, etc.
    * History and evolution of projects
    
* Societal Needs
	* Financial system problems: lack of access in poorer countries
    * Sociological: need to get private information back from FANG
    * Technological: new era in computing, decentralized resources P2P
       
* Crypto Ecosystem and challenges - simple introduction
	* Coins/tokens
    	* ways to earn coins
    	* ways to spend
    	* [Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/technology/cryptocurrency-puerto-rico.html)
    * DAO
    	* DAICO (Buterin)
    * governance
    	* off chain
        	* Foundations (Ethereum, ...)
        * on chain
        	* Aragon(https://aragon.one/)
	* reality - challenges, deficiencies, and criticisms

* Business models
	* Public and open-source
    	* where does this model work and where it does not
    * Private
    	* business applications and consortiums

* Cryptoeconomy, cryptoeconomics and digital/information economy
	* General Purpose Platforms
    	* Ethereum
    	* EOS
        * Telegram
        * Hashgraph
    * Application and business based
    	* Prediction markets
        * Logistics and Trade Finance
		* Finance/payments
    	* e-Government
    		* Identity
        	* voting
    	* Attention economy
    	* Decentralized Exchanges
	* Visionary projects
    	* Decentralized Internet
        * Decentralized Information Economy
        	* IPFS
            * Filecoin
         
* Technologies 
	* Software
		* Blockchain
        	* Lightning
            * Sharding
    	* Hashgraph 
        * zero knowledge proofs
        * Smart contracts
    
    * Consensus mechanisms
		* POW
    	* POS
    	* [DPOS](https://steemit.com/dpos/@dantheman/dpos-consensus-algorithm-this-missing-white-paper)
    	* [Transaction as Proof of Stake (TaPoS)](https://github.com/EOSIO/Documentation/blob/master/TechnicalWhitePaper.md#consensus-algorithm--dpos-) 
	* Hardware/specialized
    	* Samsung specialized chip  
	* Wallets

* Financial, crypto and conventional, system and Trading
	* Adoption and interaction of cryptoassets into global financial system
    * Valuation models and cryptoanalytics 
    * Exchanges
    	* Centralized
        	* Kraken
        * Decentralized
        	* Radar Relay
            * Etherdelta
            * 0x
		*  Notable exchanges
        	* Poloniex
            * BTCC    
            * Bitfinex
    * [Hedge Funds](https://hackernoon.com/the-fate-of-crypto-hedge-funds-ca5850e8421c)
    	* Polychain
        
* Financing mechanisms
	* ICO
    * Venture capital
        
* Legal/Regulations
	* Usage of currency
    * ICO's

* Influencers
	* Mathematical Cryptography -- Forefathers
    * Entrepreneurs
    	* Bram Cohen (BitTorrent)
    * Visionaries/Utopians
    * Journalists/Bloggers
    	* Laura Shin (Forbes)
	* Critical voices

* News and notable events

* Specific Currencies and Projects
	* Fiat
    * Stablecoins
    	* Royal Mint Gold (RMG)
        * USDT/Tether
        * Digix
    * Floating
    	* Bitcoin
        * Ether
        * Ripple