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November 14, 2023

The Story Behind Neural Quorum Governance

The Collaborative Ideation of Novel Mechanisms Through the Engineering Design Process

December 1, 2021

Operationalizing the GitcoinDAO Anti-Sybil Process

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November 29, 2023

Launching an Open Source Library for Governance Modules on Soroban

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

November 9, 2023

Introducing Neural Quorum Governance

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Introducing Govbase

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August 19, 2022

Functional Autonomy, Political Autonomy & Four (4) Sub-Types

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

Exploring DAOs as a New Kind of Institution

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Engineering for Legitimacy

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February 2, 2023

Disambiguating Autonomy: Ceding Control in favor of Coordination

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

Deterring Adversarial Behavior at Scale in Gitcoin Grants

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

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.

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.

October 3, 2023

BSci Quarterly Newsletter — Q3 2023

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October 16, 2023

Building With Blocks of Science

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February 24, 2023

An Introduction to: “Governance as Conflict: Constitution of Shared Values Defining Future Margins of Disagreement”

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

An Analysis of Wildland’s “User Defined Organization” Concept

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

December 25, 2020

A Brief History of Conviction Voting

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Algorithms as Policy

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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.