Shermin is the author of the best selling book Token Economy, that was released in its third edition in 2025 and has helped thousands of people understand the world or Web3 & tokenization. She is also the founder of Token Kitchen. In the past she started BlockchainHub Berlin, was the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics which I also co-founded, and she was a curator of the TheDAO. In her books, she tries to make technology accessible to a non-tech audience so that all those who use technology can also take part in the decision-making process of co-governing the technology they use. As an Austrian, with Iranian roots, she now lives in Portugal where she work on the intersection of technology, agriculture, art & social science.