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Sep 20

Progressive Compliance

A major obstacle to mass adoption of blockchains and smart contract applications has always been their undefined and contested legal and regulatory status. To qualify as genuinely innovative, these systems must hold some unique properties that distinguish them from what already exists, thereby justifying the need for their bespoke regulatory…

Cryptocurrency

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Cryptocurrency

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Apr 24

Liquid Delegation in DAO Governance

Liquid delegation is a collective decision-making mechanism that combines direct participation with representation. The core idea is simple: every voter can either vote directly on a given question or delegate their voting power to others, while maintaining the right to revoke their delegation at any time. Although invented already in…

Blockchain

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Blockchain

21 min read


Jan 30, 2022

Middlemachines

To understand Web3, one needs to recognize not only how it aims to differ from the previous generation of web-based services, but also the functional equivalence between traditional and digital bureaucratization, or manual vs. automated bureaucracies. Both are based on formal rules of procedure (protocol) but whereas the former relies…

Automation

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Automation

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Oct 18, 2021

How Crypto Is Shaping the Digital Revolution

I have previously categorized ’crypto’ — a catch-all for blockchain- and Web3-related innovation — as part of the Digital Revolution that started around the late 1960s to early 1970s with the invention of packet switched networks, microprocessors, and other digital technologies that enabled the proliferation of personal computers and the…

Information Technology

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How Crypto Is Shaping the Digital Revolution
How Crypto Is Shaping the Digital Revolution
Information Technology

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May 20, 2021

Isomorphism in DAO Governance

The term ’institutional isomorphism’ refers to similarities in the structure and processes of independent organizations in a particular field. In the past, the spread of information and the adoption of similar practices was slower and often limited to organizations within a single country or region. …

Governance

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Governance

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Apr 6, 2021

Decentralized Code Collaboration Using Radicle

Computer software is arguably one of the most impactful technologies of our time. Over the past few decades, major changes in daily habits, social organization, and wealth distribution have been triggered by software innovations, and everything suggests there’s more to come. One way to categorize software-based services is how decentralized…

Open Source

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Open Source

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Mar 10, 2021

Systemic Risk Mitigation in DeFi

Introduction Financial speculation and risk-taking are essential features of all monetary economies in which the distribution of profits is determined by the ‘independent’ decision-making of individual buyers and sellers. History has shown that without appropriate rules, safeguards, and behavioral norms, financial markets become more prone to fraud, pro-cyclical excess, and crises…

Finance

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Finance

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Feb 1, 2021

The Evolving Landscape of Digital Governance

Digital technology systems have emerged as one of the most important organizing structures of contemporary society. As a result, the challenge of governing society is increasingly overlapping with the challenge of governing digital technology, the scope of which is rapidly expanding through blockchain-related innovation and a general trend towards automation. …

Digital

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Digital

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Dec 9, 2020

The Great Automaton

Automation and Progress The history of technology can be viewed as the history of automation. A quote from more than a century ago by the philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead sums up nicely the connection between automation and progress: “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform…

Automation

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The Great Automaton
The Great Automaton
Automation

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Sep 30, 2020

Ten Theses on Decentralized Network Governance

Based on my observations of ‘crypto’ over the past couple of years, I’ve put together a list of ten theses on decentralized network governance, including base layer public blockchain networks and applications (smart contracts) running on top of them. The ten ideas are listed from the more general and theoretical…

Blockchain

9 min read

Blockchain

9 min read

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