# Abstract

The Cypher Lexicon is a compendium for the vast digital world **aka** the metaverse. 

Our goal with the Lexicon— allow anyone to easily access a knowledge base designed to familiarize and guide users who seek to become a technologist or those who wish to build, use or expand the next iteration of the web.

To wrap your head around the system and the ideas presented within, you'll be required to read a fair amount of material. There are ways to implement what you've learned and learn from a more hands on approach as you get further through the material.

### Prerequisite Materials:

* [**Shelling Out -- The Origins of Money by: Nick Szabo**](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/)
  * [**Money, Blockchains and Social Scalability by: Nick Szabo**](https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability.html)
  * [**The Idea of Smart Contracts by: Nick Szabo**](https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/idea.html)
  * [**Proplets: Devices for Controlling Property by: Nick Szabo**](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/proplets-devices-for-controlling-property/)
  * [**Smart Contracts Glossary by: Nick Szabo**](https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/smart_contracts_glossary.html)
  * [**Nick Szabo's Essays, Papers and Concise Tutorials**](https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/index.html) **(Additional information)**
* [**The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto by: Timothy C. May**](https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-crypto-manifesto.html)
* [**Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities by: Timothy C. May**](https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-virtual-comm.html)
* [**A Cypherpunk's Manifesto by: Eric Hughes**](https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html)
* [**The Ricardian Contract by: Ian Griggs**](https://iang.org/papers/ricardian_contract.html)
* [**Politics vs Technology by: Hal Finney**](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/politics-vs-technology/)
* [**Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System**](https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf)
* [**The Theory of Money and Credit by: Ludwig Von Mises**](https://cdn.mises.org/Theory%20of%20Money%20and%20Credit.pdf)
* [**Principles of Economics by: Carl Menger**](https://cdn.mises.org/principles_of_economics.pdf)
* [**Byzantine Fault**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault)