Decentralized Governance Reading List

Getitng Started

A good place to start to understand what is required, taking inspiration of an 18th century effort at governance: https://medium.com/@BuckPerley/crypto-governance-f1318affbbe0

And Fred Ehrsam's blog post: https://medium.com/@FEhrsam/blockchain-governance-programming-our-future-c3bfe30f2d74

Alexandra Tran and Steven Elleman - slides from Blockchain at Berkeley: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10cLFnYaR0r58DyPVYwMgJq3nJOFVkO02hxJf1hxGnJ0/edit?usp=sharing by

An important addition from Arthur Brock on bias in governance: Broken Assumptions of Governance

Aleksandr Bulkin from Coinfund: The Consensus Series, Part I: The Basics of Collectivity Addendum

Patrick McCorry on voting / bribing: A Smart Contract for Boardroom Voting with Maximum Voter Privacy Various Github Projects

Intros from Reflexivity / Consensus Clubs: Decentralised Governance Part 1 Decentralised Governance Part 2 VC Governance How Decentralised Governance Could Disrupt VC

Token Curated Lists / Curation Markets (an increasingly important aspect of governance): https://medium.com/@simondlr/tokens-2-0-curved-token-bonding-in-curation-markets-1764a2e0bee5 https://medium.com/@simondlr/the-arcade-bazaar-continuous-multi-party-tokenized-funding-without-central-issuance-2cbac86ab5c https://medium.com/coinmonks/ranking-token-curated-registries-e9a92dc85b31

Tim Bansemer: First World Summit for Blockchain Governance, Athens 7th-9th of September 2018: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dm4XWTmdjZ1TDWAnnaIWpZ3fVWQMue8K3C2SrP89VVw/edit#

Projects Building Governance Models

Aragon

  1. Governance and Network Effects
  2. Apiary: A platform for emergent organizations built on Aragon

Bounties

  1. Introducing Delphi

Cosmos

  1. Governance

DAOstack

  1. Decentralized Governance First Principles

Decred

  1. Politeia

Dfinity

  1. The DFINITY “Blockchain Nervous System”
  2. Future governance? Integrating traditional AI technology into the Blockchain Nervous System

Eos

  1. Against On-Chain Governance
  2. The Limits of Crypto-economic Governance
  3. Decentralized Blockchain Governance

Ethereum

  1. Notes on Blockchain Governance
  2. Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
  3. Against On-Chain Governance
  4. Some Thoughts On Blockchain Governance
  5. History of Casper Part 1
  6. History of Casper Part 2
  7. History of Casper Part 3
  8. History of Casper Part 4
  9. History of Casper Part 5
  10. Blockchain governance/ governance 101 — Taipei 2017
  11. Carbon Vote

GovernX

  1. Breaking TCR - Token Curated Registries

Messari

  1. Messari White Paper

Tezos

  1. The myth of the irrational token holder
  2. But how does Tezos compare to...