An analysis of Wildland’s “Proof of Usage” Model — This research was commissioned by the Wildland team and funded by a Golem Foundation grant. It was written in Q2 2022. Please check that information is accurate or up-to-date at the time of reading. This blog forms Part 2 of 2, analyzing the concepts of “User Defined Organization” and “Proof-of-Usage”…

This research piece was commissioned by, and conducted in conjunction with, the Wildland team and funded via a grant from Golem Foundation. It was written in Q2 2022. Please check that information is accurate or up-to-date at the time of reading. This blog forms Part 1 of 2, on analyzing…

A Governance Assessment by BlockScience — Context of this research Based on our DAO Vulnerabilities research piece, we were contacted by Lido to undertake a resilience assessment of LIDO liquid staking protocol governance by conducting a Lido DAO governance vulnerability mapping exercise. In this blog, we share our findings from a DAO Vulnerabilities Assessment of Lido, including: Our research method…

“Navigating Information Infrastructure” Blends Art & Technology in a New Experiment to Empower the Science Commons — BlockScience research continuously pushes the boundaries of new technologies that are coming available in “Web 3.0” and beyond. One of our latest experiments was an open research collaboration exploring networked media that fuses art and technology in the pursuit of funding research and development; a proof of concept for leveraging…

Exploring Baseline Crossings: What Do They Mean for FIL Incentives? — This work is a continuation of the BlockScience x Filecoin collaboration, where we are building digital twin tooling to provide Computer-Aided Governance for the Filecoin ecosystem. …

A Research Collaboration with ixo & the Interchain Foundation — BlockScience and ixo, with the support of the Interchain Foundation, have designed an innovative crypto-economic primitive that implements Risk-Adjusted Bonding Curves (RABC) for financing impact. RABCs are the first formalized instance of a dynamic bonding curve that integrates risk signals from the real-world into decentralized finance, using an internal prediction…

ML Pipeline Progress & New Success Metrics — This article is an update to the Gitcoin community about the results of the GitcoinDAO Fraud Detection & Defense (FDD) working group, and the results of the Anti-Fraud machine learning pipeline from Gitcoin Round 12. Background The Gitcoin ecosystem continues to see rapid growth in its quadratic funding program for Ethereum…

Governing Complex Human/ML Processes in Decentralized Communities — This piece is the latest in the BlockScience x Gitcoin collaboration, exploring the operation and governance of a human/ML sybil-detection pipeline in a decentralized community — the GitcoinDAO. Introduction & Background In our previous articles in this collaboration, we explored the potential of Computer-Aided Governance for the Gitcoin Grants ecosystem to ensure credible…

Research Collaboration with Hedera Hashgraph and HBAR Foundation to Explore Renewable Energy Market Innovation — BlockScience is researching and developing a novel price discovery mechanism for high dimensional, semi-fungible assets. …