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April 11, 2023
Understanding the Filecoin Consensus Pledge
Read our article: 'Understanding the Filecoin Consensus Pledge' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
June 22, 2020
cadCAD Gets a New GitHub Org
Read our article: 'cadCAD Gets a New GitHub Org' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
April 2, 2021
What Does it Take to Optimize a Complex System?
Engineers can better assess & optimize for system goals w/ tools like cadCAD & by employing goal thresholds that offer a more granular view of design choices, .
November 14, 2023
The Story Behind Neural Quorum Governance
The Collaborative Ideation of Novel Mechanisms Through the Engineering Design Process
July 4, 2022
Thoughts on Trajectory, Algorithms, Engineering, DAOs and Functional Misalignment
Read our article: 'Thoughts on Trajectory, Algorithms, Engineering, DAOs and Functional Misalignment' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on t...
November 7, 2022
Testing ARMMs in Production
On the risks and benefits of ARMMs for price discovery and trading using traditionally managed order-book markets as our baseline.
October 5, 2022
The Ethnography of a ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ (DAO):
This paper investigates how ethnographers can study ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organizations’ using qualitative, ethnographic techniques,
March 22, 2023
Reviewing the FIP-0056 and CDM Debate on Filecoin
Read our article: 'Reviewing the FIP-0056 and CDM Debate on Filecoin' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
August 22, 2022
The CAT’s Out of the Bag: Introducing Content-Addressable Transformers
High level introduction exploring the concept and potential of Content-Addressable Transformers (CATs)
June 14, 2023
The Animating Purpose of BlockScience
Our animating purpose provides the impetus for individuals to coordinate collective action in pursuit of our shared mission, values & common aspirations.
April 9, 2021
Summoning the Money God
Read our article: 'Summoning the Money God' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
May 12, 2021
Sustainability Goal Achieved: Filecoin Network Crosses Baseline Target
Read our article: 'Sustainability Goal Achieved: Filecoin Network Crosses Baseline Target' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
April 24, 2019
On the Practice of Token Engineering, Part III: Something is Missing
Read our article: 'On the Practice of Token Engineering, Part III: Something is Missing' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
November 13, 2023
Objects as Reference: Toward Robust First Principles of Digital Organization
Towards first principles to guide, develop & understand new forms of digital organization & cyber-infrastructure in terms of objects as reference.
August 2, 2021
Mapping the Computer-Aided Governance Process
The CAG MAP is a data-driven political process. The goal is to help stakeholders understand, improve, and maintain the systems they care about.
January 9, 2024
Knowledge Networks and the Politics of Protocols
Research & Open-Source Software Development: building tools that allow users to provision, operate, maintain, & govern instances of an application.
October 27, 2021
Introducing Automated Regression Market Makers (ARMMs): A New Price Discovery Mechanism for Semi-Fungible Assets
Read our article: 'Introducing Automated Regression Market Makers (ARMMs): A New Price Discovery Mechanism for Semi-Fungible Assets' to explore insights...
March 10, 2021
How to Attack and Defend Quadratic Funding
Read our article: 'How to Attack and Defend Quadratic Funding' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
April 8, 2021
How to Perform Parameter Selection Under Uncertainty
Read our article: 'How to Perform Parameter Selection Under Uncertainty' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
January 4, 2022
Gitcoin Grants Round 12 Evaluation & Results
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September 30, 2022
Gitcoin Grants Round 11 Anti-Fraud Evaluation & Results
Read our article: 'Gitcoin Grants Round 11 Anti-Fraud Evaluation & Results' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
April 12, 2023
Exploring the Filecoin Termination Fee
Read our article: 'Exploring the Filecoin Termination Fee' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
August 29, 2022
Generalized Dynamical Systems Part I: Foundations
Four-Part Video Series of Academic Analyses on Generalized Dynamical Systems (GDS) a mathematical framework with applications to enforceable contracts.
April 13, 2023
From Curved Bonding to Configuration Spaces
Read our article: 'From Curved Bonding to Configuration Spaces' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
March 31, 2021
Exploring DAO2DAO Collaboration Mechanisms
Read our article: 'Exploring DAO2DAO Collaboration Mechanisms' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
April 14, 2023
Flatcoins: Inflation-Adjusted Stablecoins
Read our article: 'Flatcoins: Inflation-Adjusted Stablecoins' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
July 7, 2021
Evaluating the Anti-Fraud Results for Gitcoin Round 10
Read our article: 'Evaluating the Anti-Fraud Results for Gitcoin Round 10' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
April 13, 2022
DAO Vulnerabilities: A Map of Lido Governance Risks & Opportunities
Vulnerability mapping assessing the resilience of Lido DAO protocol governance in terms of technical, social & economic vulnerabilities.
March 31, 2021
Conceptual Models for DAO2DAO Relations
Read our article: 'Conceptual Models for DAO2DAO Relations' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
October 27, 2022
Complex Systems Modeling of Community Inclusion Currencies
Read our article: 'Complex Systems Modeling of Community Inclusion Currencies' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
August 7, 2019
Computer-Aided Governance — A Revolution in Automated Decision-Support Systems
Using complex, adaptive, dynamic, Computer-Aided Design (cadCAD) tools to simulate, test & validate design decisions introduces a critical engineering iteration loop.
November 17, 2022
Computer-Aided Governance in Action: Steering Complex Systems Using the CAG Map
Case Studies (4) of Data-Driven Decision-Making in Cybernetic Organizations w/ Computer-Aided Governance (CAG) & CAG Map model.
December 22, 2020
Colluding Communities or New Markets?
Read our article: 'Colluding Communities or New Markets?' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
December 29, 2022
Celebrating 2022 - A Year in Review at BlockScience
Highlighting Innovative R&D Collaborations in Economic, Environmental and Social Impact Projects
November 15, 2023
Ceramic Ecosystem Mapping Report
Read our article: 'Ceramic Ecosystem Mapping Report' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
August 3, 2023
Block by Block: Managing Complexity with Model-Based Systems Engineering
Model-based systems engineering employs mathematical & computational modeling to design, analyze & build safe, effective & sustainable complex systems
October 3, 2023
BSci Quarterly Newsletter — Q3 2023
Read our article: 'BSci Quarterly Newsletter — Q3 2023' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
October 16, 2023
Building With Blocks of Science
Read our article: 'Building With Blocks of Science' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
July 6, 2021
Baseline Minting Incentives
Read our article: 'Baseline Minting Incentives' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
March 20, 2024
Arbitrum Expert Service Provider Network Program Development
Executive Summary of full report to constitute ArbitrumDAO program to target funding for ongoing domain expertise in pursuit of long-term goals.
April 19, 2022
Applying Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model to Decentralized Organization
Stafford Beer articulated the “Viable System Model” (VSM) in his 1972 book ‘Brain of the Firm’ as a management tool to determine the viability of an organization.
February 1, 2022
Announcing cadCAD 1.0: Foundations for a New Era of Open Modeling
Read our article: 'Announcing cadCAD 1.0: Foundations for a New Era of Open Modeling' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
March 11, 2022
Alpha Bonds: Risk-adjusted Bonding Curves for Financing Impact
Read our article: 'Alpha Bonds: Risk-adjusted Bonding Curves for Financing Impact' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.
April 6, 2022
Aligning the concept of ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ to Precedents in Cybernetics
Drawing on Stafford Beer’s Viable Systems Model, this research paper bridges DAOs & cybernetics via two main principles of organization: viability & purpose.