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How Blockchain Whitepapers Became Worldbuilding Documents
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- Jul 9, 2026
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- 616
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Summary
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-blockchain-whitepapers-became-worldbuilding-documents . A firsthand reflection on writing blockchain whitepapers during the ICO boom, and on becoming an unlikely author of futures that did not yet exist. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3 . You can also check exclusive content about #web3 , #blockchain , #ethereum , #ico , #whitepapers , #storytelling , #web-history , #startups , and more. This story was written by: @intellicorepress . Learn more about this writer by checking @intellicorepress's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . During the ICO boom, whitepapers moved from technical documents to world-building tools: part pitch deck, part manifesto, part speculative fiction. This essay revisits what it felt like to write them from the inside.