Welcome to the BlockScience Quarterly newsletter! Our aim is to provide you with the latest news and insights on emerging technologies, innovation, and their impact on society. We’re excited for summer and the longest days of the year! 🌞⛱️Our team is spending more time outside, enjoying nature, family, and friends…

A Summary of the “Economic Games as Estimators” Paper on Bonding Curves as Estimators by Zargham, Shorish, and Paruch This article introduces the main sections & concepts from the paper “Economic Games as Estimators” by Michael Zargham, Jamsheed Shorish, and Kris Paruch, published at the University of Vienna Institute for…

By Ilan Ben-Meir In 1958, the French film critic André Bazin published an essay titled “The Ontology of the Photographic Image,”¹ in which he sought to define an essential difference between photographs (the representations of the world produced by cameras) and the images produced by “the plastic arts” (other forms…

Welcome to the BlockScience Quarterly newsletter! Our aim is to provide you with the latest news and insights on emerging technologies, innovation, and their impact on society. We’re excited for summer and the longest days of the year! 🌞⛱️Our team is spending more time outside, enjoying nature, family, and friends…

An Introspective Look at Our Own Constitutive Infrastructure — As the researchers at BlockScience developed our formal understanding of organizational design, we tested our theories by applying our framework to the analysis of our own operations. …

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. …