Governance

Explore Q3 2024: BlockScience as a cybernetic organization, data intermediary networks, KOI design, grants for algorithmic policymaking, and governance research.

BlockScience Summer 2024: Windfall Protocol for building efficiency, KOI research, bioregional finance, polycentric governance, AI talks, and community updates.

BlockScience Summer 2025 newsletter: AI agents from a systems lens, KOI research, adaptive interfaces, commons governance, bioregional finance, and updates from IASC, CoFi, and Cascadia.

Explore BlockScience’s Q1 2024 newsletter: legitimacy in governance, DAO challenges, knowledge networks, MycoFi design patterns, and ecosystem research in decentralized systems.

Explore BlockScience’s Q1 2025 newsletter: UN talks, SXSW panels, KOI Network research, governance debates, and ecosystem highlights in AI, digital systems, and sustainability.

Discover BlockScience’s Q4 2023 newsletter: insights on governance modules, Neural Quorum Governance, AI accountability, cryptoeconomics, Web3 security, and key events.

BlockScience Quarterly shares cutting-edge research on governance, economics, AI, and machine learning, with updates from global events and collaborations.

The Collaborative Ideation of Novel Mechanisms Through the Engineering Design Process

Read our article: 'Operationalizing the GitcoinDAO Anti-Sybil Process' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.

The Governance Module Library is an open tool kit for governance, providing specifications, simulations, tuning & implementation guidelines, and use cases

Read our article: 'Introducing Neural Quorum Governance' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.

Read our article: 'Introducing Govbase' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.

Video: Zargham explores political and functional autonomy and four (4) sub-types of autonomy: individual, collective, tactical, and strategic.

Read our article: 'Exploring DAOs as a New Kind of Institution' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.

Read our article: 'Engineering for Legitimacy' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.

Examines tensions & trade-offs between functional autonomy, political autonomy & subtypes (4): strategic, tactical, collective & individual autonomy.

On social & technical behaviors in Gitcoin Grant Round 9, & proposes a framework for community-based policy making in semi-automated systems.

Vulnerability mapping assessing the resilience of Lido DAO protocol governance in terms of technical, social & economic vulnerabilities.

Using complex, adaptive, dynamic, Computer-Aided Design (cadCAD) tools to simulate, test & validate design decisions introduces a critical engineering iteration loop.

Read our article: 'BSci Quarterly Newsletter — Q3 2023' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.

Read our article: 'Building With Blocks of Science' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.

Read our article: 'An Introduction to: “Governance as Conflict: Constitution of Shared Values Defining Future Margins of Disagreement”' to explore insig...

Summary of a research sprint conducted by the governance research team at BlockScience on the project Wildland

Read our article: 'A Brief History of Conviction Voting' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.

Read our article: 'Algorithms as Policy' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.

Drawing on Stafford Beer’s Viable Systems Model, this research paper bridges DAOs & cybernetics via two main principles of organization: viability & purpose.