Awesome CryptoIQ

A curated list of awesome blockchain, cryptocurrency and fintech resources. Early stage work in progress.

Note: See awesome-cryptocurrency for the latest version of this list.

Contents

• General Resources
  • Blogs
  • Books
  • Charts and Data
  • Collections
  • Conferences
  • Directories
  • Distributed Autonomous Entities
  • Documentaries
  • Education
  • Futurism
  • Glossaries
  • History
  • Humour
  • Industry Collaboration
  • Infographics
  • News and Articles
  • Newsletters
  • Organisations
  • Podcasts
  • Reports
  • Smart Contracts and DApps
  • Tutorials
• Applications and Solutions
  • Analytics
  • ATMs (TBC)
  • Banks (TBC)
  • Brokers (TBC)
  • Capital Markets (TBC)
  • Compliance
  • Exchanges
  • Explorers
  • Faucets
  • Financial Data (TBC)
  • Identity
  • Insurance (TBC)
  • Investments (TBC)
  • Merchants (TBC)
  • Microtransactions (TBC)
  • Money Services (TBC)
  • Notarization (TBC)
  • Oracles
  • Payments (TBC)
  • Payroll (TBC)
  • Sharing Economy
  • Trade Finance (TBC)
  • Trading Platforms (TBC)
  • Wallets
• Computer Science
  • Data Structures
  • Distributed Systems
  • Encoding (TBC)
• Cryptocurrencies
  • Bitcoin
  • Dash
  • Dogecoin
  • Ethereum
  • Litecoin
  • Monero
  • Namecoin
  • NXT
  • Ripple
  • Stellar
• Cryptography
• Economics
  • Crypto-economics
  • Money and banking
• Infrastructure
  • Blockchain
  • Mining
  • Data Storage
• Investors
• Middleware and Services
  • APIs (TBC)
  • Consultants (TBC)
  • Meta-Protocols
  • Platforms (TBC)
  • Services (TBC)
  • Smart Contracts
  • Software Development (TBC)
• Research
  • Archives
  • Collections
  • Individuals
  • Journals
  • Organisations
• Technologies
  • Consensus mechanisms
  • Cross-chain solutions
  • Off-chain solutions

General Resources

Blogs

• Bits on Blocks
• CryptoIQ
• Freedom to Tinker
• Great Wall Of Numbers
• Hacking Distributed
• Hashing It
• R3 CEV
• Richard Gendal Brown

Books

• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
• Mastering Bitcoin

Charts and Data

• Bitcoin Average
• Bitcoin Charts
• Bitcoin Wisdom
• Bitcoinity
• BitinfoCharts
• Bitnodes
• Coinmarketcap
• Coin Dance
• Cryptocoin Charts
• Cryptocompare
• CryptoIndex
• Cryptowatch
• Smartbit - Charts
• TradeBlock
• Trading View

Collections

• Awesome Blockchain
• Awesome Decentralization
• Awesome Decentralized
• Awesome Peer-to-peer
• Bitcoin.org - Resources
• Decentral Station

Conferences

• CoinDesk Events

Directories

• Coinmap
• List of Bitcoin Companies (Wikipedia)

Distributed Autonomous Entities

• DAOs, DACs, DAs and More
• Distributed Autonomous Organization (Wikipedia)
• DAO (Slock.it)
• Ethereum: Fixing the legal problem of the DAO

Documentaries

• Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It
• BitcoinFilm.org
• The Bitcoin Doco
• The Bitcoin Phenomenon
• Ulterior States

Education

• Berkeley - Secure and Intelligent Programming
• Blockchain University
• CCCC - Certified Bitcoin Professional
• Duke - Innovation and Cryptoventures
• MIT - Blockchain Technologies: Decentralize All The Things
• Princeton - Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
• Stanford - Bitcoin and Crypto Currencies
• Stanford - Bitcoin Engineering
• The Blockchain Education Network
• University of Nicosia - MOOC/MSc in Digital Currency
• University of Maryland - Science of Cryptocurrency

Futurism

• Blockchain Futures Lab

Glossaries

• Brave New Coin - Glossary
• Ethereum - Glossary

History

• History of Cryptocurrencies (video)

Humour

• Bitcoin Obituaries
• Buttcoin Reddit

Industry Collaboration

• Blockchain Alliance
• HyperLedger
• R3 CEV

Infographics

• Bitcoin's Network In One Infographic
• BlockTech in Financial Services VirtualScape

News and Articles

• Bitcoin Magazine
• BTC Feed
• Coin Journal
• Coindesk
• Cryptocoinsnews
• Forklog
• The Merkle
• Zero Block

Newsletters

• Crypto Brief
• The Vanbex Report
• The Week in Bitcoin

Organisations

• Digital Currency Council

Podcasts

• The Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast
• Epicenter Bitcoin
• Let's Talk Bitcoin

Reports

• Blockchain 2015: Strategic Analysis in Financial Services (William Mougayar)
• Blockchain and Bitcoin 2016: A Survey of Global Leaders (Magister Advisors)
• State of Bitcoin and Blockchain 2016 (CoinDesk)

Smart Contracts and DApps

• A Brief Introduction to Smart Contracts (Charles Hoskinson)
• A Gentle Introduction to Smart Contracts (Anthony Lewis)
• Contract (Bitcoin wiki)
• DAPP development playlist
• Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks (Nick Szabo)
• Great Chain of Numbers (Tim Swanson)
• Smart Contracts (Nick Szabo)
• Smart Contracts playlist

Tutorials

• 21 Inc - Tutorials
• Blockchain Pie
• DIY Raspberry Pi Cryptocurrency Node

Applications and Solutions

Analytics

• Coinalytics

Compliance

• Chainalysis
• Elliptic

Exchanges

• Bitfinex
• BitMEX
• Bitstamp
• BlockTrades
• BTC China
• BTC-e
• CEX.IO
• Coinbase
• Gatecoin
• Gemini
• Huobi
• How to Buy Bitcoins
• itBit
• Local Bitcoins
• Kraken
• Metaexchange
• OKCoin
• OpenLedger
• Poloniex
• Shapeshift

Explorers

• Blockr
• Blockchain.info
• etherchain.org
• Smartbit
• webbtc

Faucets

• Coin Jabber
• Ether Free
• Makejar
• Paytoshi

Identity

• Onename

Oracles

• Oraclize

Sharing Economy

• Arcade City
• Lazooz
• Slock.it

Wallets

• ArcBit
• Armory
• Bitcoin Wallet
• Blockchain.info
• breadwallet
• Case Wallet
• Coinbase
• BitGo
• Coinkite
• Coinprism
• Copay
• Darkwallet
• Airbitz
• Electrum
• GreenAddress
• Hive
• KeepKey
• Ledger Wallet
• LUXSTACK
• MultiBit HD
• Mycelium
• Pi-Wallet
• Samourai Wallet
• TREZOR
• Xapo

Computer Science

Data Structures

• Blockchain
• Bloom Filter
• Distributed Hash Table
• Merkle Tree
• Patricia Tree (Ethereum)
• Radix Tree

Distributed Systems

• Byzantine Fault Tolerance (Wikipedia)
• Byzantine Fault Tolerance Consensus Papers
• Consensus and Organising Coffee
• Paxos - A Really Beautiful Algorithm for Distributed Consensus
• Simpler Consensus with Raft
• State machine replication
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Distibuted Systems

Encoding

• Base58Check
• Recursive Length Prefix (RLP)

Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin

• Awesome Bitcoin
• Awesome Bitcoin
• Awesome Bitcoin Developer
• Bitcoin.com
• Bitcoin.org
• Bitcoin Core
• Bitcoin Foundation
• Bitcoin Github
• Bitcoin Reddit
• Bitcoin Talk
• Bitcoin Wiki
• BTC Reddit
• Coin Center
• Open Bitcoin Privacy Project
• Programming Bitcoin Reading List

BitShares

• BitShares.org
• BitShares Github

Dash

• Dash
• Dash Github

Dogecoin

• Dogecoin
• Dogecoin Github

Ethereum

• Awesome Ethereum
• Awesome Ethereum
• Awesome Ethereum
• Ethereum
• Ethereum 101
• Ethereum Blog
• Ethereum Github
• Ethereum Introduction for Software Developers
• Ethereum Resource List
• Ethereum Resources
• Ethereum Starter Guide
• Ethereum Wiki
• Ethstats
• Homestead Release FAQ
• State of the Dapps

Litecoin

• Litecoin
• Litecoin - Github

Monero

• Monero
• Monero Github

Namecoin

• Namecoin
• Namecoin Github

Nxt

• Nxt
• Nxt Bitbucket

Ripple

• Ripple
• Ripple Github

Stellar

• Stellar
• Stellar Github

Cryptography

• A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
• Coursera - Cryptography 1
• Cryptographic Hash Functions (Wikipedia)
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography - A Gentle Introduction
• Matthew Green - Cryptography Resources
• The Matasano Crypto Challenges
• The Math Behind Bitcoin
• Understanding Cryptography
• Zero Knowledge Proofs - An Illustrated Primer

Economics

Crypto-economics

• Cryptoeconomics playlist (video)
• Cryptoeconomy
• Cryptonomics
• How Society Will Be Transformed by Crypto-economics
• The New Economics of Blockchain

Money and Banking

• A Simple Explanation of How Money Moves Around the Banking System
• Perry Mehrling
• Positive Money
• Understanding Money

Infrastructure

Blockchain

• Blockapps
• Credits
• Guardtime
• Hyperledger
• IBM Open Blockchain (part of Hyperledger)
• Multichain

Data Storage

• Interplanetary File System (IPFS)
• SAFE Network
• Sia
• Storj

Miners

• 21inc
• Ant Pool
• BitFury
• BTCC
• Genesis Mining
• KnC Miner
• P2Pool
• Slush Pool

Mining Equipment

• Bitmain Tech

Investors

• Bitcoin Investment Trust
• Bitcoin Venture Capital Investments (CoinDesk)
• Blockchain Capital
• BnkToTheFuture.com
• Boost VC
• Coinsilium
• Digital Currency Group
• Panterra Capital

Middleware and Services

Meta-Protocols

• Bitbind
• Chromaway
• CoinSpark
• Counterparty
• Colored Coins
• COLU
• Factom
• Omni Layer
• Open Assets

Smart Contracts

• Bitshares
• COALA - Coalition of Automated Legal Applications
• Ethereum
• Lisk
• Rootstock
• SmartContract

Research

Research - Archives

• arXiv.org
• Cryptology ePrint
• SSRN

Research - Collections

• Bitcoin Wiki - Research
• CABRA - Comprehensive Academic Bitcoin Research Archive
• CoinDesk - Top 10 Papers of 2015
• DCC Library
• Epic List of Bitcoin Research
• Hashing It - Research Resources
• Jeremy Clark - Bibliographies
• Nakamoto Institute - Literature
• Nakamoto Institute - Research

Research - Individuals

• Bonneau,Joseph
• Clark, Jeremy
• Karame, Ghassan
• Miller, Andrew

Research - Journals

• Ledger Journal

Research - Organisations

• Bitfury
• CryptoIQ
• Dfinity
• Institute for Blockchain Studies

Technologies

Consensus Mechanisms

• Delegated Proof of Stake (BitShares)
• Nothing is Cheaper Than Proof Of Work
• Proof of Stake (Wikipedia)
• Proof of Stake Resources
• Proof of Work (Wikipedia)
• The Benefits of Proof of Work

Cross-chain Solutions

• Atomic cross-chain swaps
• BTC Relay
• Interledger
• Sidechains

Off-chain Solutions

• Lightning Network
• Payment Channels