What can systems engineering and institutional design teach us about how to tackle disruptive technologies such as automation and AI? In this piece, we briefly examine historical parallels from market design to highlight a ‘safety first’, civil engineering-style perspective on institutional design. This approach builds upon requirements and identifications to…

By David Sisson and Ilan Ben-Meir In a documentary released in 1990, Steve Jobs tells a story that he would return to repeatedly over the course of his career: I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read…

An Exploration of the Control-Theoretic Design Challenge — This piece is an exploration of ‘flatcoins’, which are posed by Coinbase as algorithmic semi-stablecoins that adjust for the rate of inflation. This specific use case poses an interesting control-theoretic design challenge that BlockScience has addressed in several past projects, which we’ll explore further in this article. Introduction: What is a Flatcoin?

A Summary of the Paper on Bonding Curves as Configuration Spaces by Zargham, Shorish and Paruch — This article introduces the main sections & concepts from the paper “From Curved Bonding to Configuration Spaces” by Michael Zargham, Jamsheed Shorish, and Kris Paruch, published at the University of Vienna Institute for Cryptoeconomics. …

Ensuring Sector Permanence in the Network — This work is part of a series on Filecoin Core Protocol Review that was inspired by conversations between BlockScience and CryptoEconLab. …

Locking the Network Journey into Safety — This work is part of a series on Filecoin Core Protocol Review that was inspired by conversations between BlockScience and CryptoEconLab. …

By Michael Zargham, Eric Alston, Kelsie Nabben, and Ilan Ben-Meir¹ With a rapidly-growing number of blockchain communities in the process of drafting formal, written constitutions for their projects, it is becoming apparent that an advanced understanding of the structure and function of constitutions is not being adequately applied. The ways…

Modeling the Range Bound Stability System in cadCAD — This article explains the first iteration of modeling work carried out by the BlockScience team on behalf of OlympusDAO, in order to better understand the impacts and effects of the Range Bound Stability (RBS) system, an automated price stability mechanism (PSM) deployed in OlympusV3. After some background context on the…

This article introduces and examines some of the key points in the academic publication by BlockScience researcher Eric Alston titled “Governance as Conflict: Constitution of Shared Values Defining Future Margins of Disagreement”, published in the MIT Computational Law Report. Click here for the full paper The paper begins with the…