From Theory to Systems: The Origin Story of BlockScience
BlockScience was founded in the fall of 2017 by Dr. Michael Zargham who felt that the interdisciplinary study of socio-technical and economic systems needed to break out of academia and find its place amongst the real-world businesses migrating from static enterprise systems to dynamic, increasingly decentralized, ecosystems.
Personal Research Statement
In early 2018, an internal BlockScience research project led by Fernando Martinelli exploring multidimensional invariant surfaces, developed the powerful mathematical framework implemented by Balancer that enables portfolios to continuously self-rebalance while also generating fees.
“With a focus on community driven goals rather than financial profit, BlockScience is unique in that for the first time, non-profit and humanitarian organizations like the Red Cross can engage world class engineers and data scientists to design, develop, and deploy complex models that leverage machine learning and AI to address some of our most fundamental challenges focused on saving lives and enhancing resilience.”
cadCAD
At the August 2019 Token Engineering Global Gathering (TEGG) BlockScience open-sourced cadCAD, a Python package developed to streamline the process of designing, testing, and validating complex systems through simulations and provide the ability to create digital twins for operating ecosystems.
The Filecoin Network
In October 2020, the Filecoin network launched, to which contributions to the economic design had been one of the most long standing and significant projects at BlockScience.
BlockScience Labs
2021 saw the launch of BlockScience Labs, a data science product development company that is developing a SaaS web app that creates collaborative, version-controlled project spaces that provide a single source of truth for the data, analytics, and decisions involved in answering complex business problems.
