# Materials

BlockScience Blog year in review is a decent high level overview of what we've been up to lately
- https://blockscience.ghost.io/2022-year-end-blog/

## Most Relevant Papers

**Foundations of Cryptoeconomic Systems:**

- Voshmgir & Zargham (2019)
- https://assets.pubpub.org/sy02t720/31581340240758.pdf
- here is the citation information; i think this one may be the most directly useful to you -- we directly adapted Micro-Meso-Macro to cryptoeconomic systems.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=bbdc3vkAAAAJ&citation_for_view=bbdc3vkAAAAJ:PR6Y55bgFSsC
- this was originally supposed to be published in issue 2 of the Cryptoconomic systems journal but their editoral staff basically all quit after the first issue. So its just hanging out there as a Working Paper but its getting decent citations.
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**Aligning Decentralizaed Autonomous Organizations to Precedents in Cybernetics**

- Zargham & Nabben (2022)
- include a case study on 1hive, but also some solid design principles from complex adaptive systems, as well as surfaces criticisms of cybernetics
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4077358
- concepts to look for
- governance surface
- resilience vs robustness trade-off space
- constitutional architype
- criticisms of cybernetics
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**Ethnography as a Feedback Loop: Designing Complex, Automated Systems**

- Proposal we submitted
- https://www.dropbox.com/s/k8mli77a0gg78t0/NabbenK_ZarghamM_EPIC%20Submission%202022_paper_final.pdf?dl=0
- Supersecret pretty version my friend made for us that we couldn't publish because of EPIC policies (private distribution only)
- https://www.figma.com/proto/69DVyVT0ADBReFZ8WaZOQW/Article-%22Decentralized-Autonomous-Organization%22-(Copy)?node-id=167%3A15419&scaling=min-zoom&page-id=0%3A1
- official version
- https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/epic.12104
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**Toward a Participatory Digital Ethnography of Blockchain Governance**

- Rennie, Zargham, and a bunch of others (2022)
- it was a big group because we built and trialed the software in a community (the tooling has since be improved and its use has been expanded)
- this paper is mostly about the tool, there will be more forthcoming with findings associated with using it
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10778004221097056
- https://github.com/metagov/discord-research-bot

## Videos
These are each individually pretty short but i think you will find them useful.


- Creating Interconnected Collaborative Communities (2018)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOP6anxiHkk&t=1s
- The age of networks and the rebirth of Cybernetics (2019)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyNvoYuSFII
- Towards a Diversity of DAOs (2019)
- https://youtu.be/75769EjciVk
- Foundations of Cryptoeconomic Systems (2020)
- https://youtu.be/HldQF_MJN_Y
- From Quality Metrics to Reputation (2021)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuzBLEHZbAk
- Algorithms as Policy: Measurement, Reputation and Rewards (2021)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABSBdj9tEI8&t=3350s
- Algorithms as Policy: Gitcoin Fraud Detection & Defense (FDD) Case Study Version (2022)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZI3v_L-xnA&t=54s
- Measurement Systems and Contributor Rewards (2022)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l74c0FIuKY0

## Projects to Check out

RAI
- This is a good one to check out because there is some very public material on the designa and analysis if its protocol
- https://github.com/BlockScience/reflexer
- https://medium.com/tokenengineering/rai-workshops-modeling-the-money-god-9626cc883a5
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-GxJch-YeZerVVV8dY8qU2VkJfbnSfdN
- i am not sure how much public there is yet but we've also been using the protocol so there is at least some internal docs that verify it continues to behave as expected years later.

TEC
- this has been a pretty crazy experiment in community economic policy making
- pretty much all the adventures are public
- https://www.youtube.com/c/TokenEngineeringCommons/videos
- plus there are some really cool tools built for community members to test out their ideas
- https://token-engineering-commons.gitbook.io/tec-handbook/
- https://forum.tecommons.org/
- https://config.tecommons.org/config/1
- and much more

## Other Stuff

Kelsie and I organized some of our writings into a Zine and then worked through legwork to deploy the content to IPFS and release 1/1 NFTs for each piece
- https://medium.com/block-science/nft-zine-explores-the-use-of-web3-to-fund-attribute-open-r-d-8a48250702f7
- https://opensea.io/collection/zine-navigating-information-infrastructure
- i think you will find this content very much up your alley, plus hands on experimentation with the tooling
- we airdropped the 1/1 tokens to our collaborators, they have never been sold.


Jeff (BlockScience head of comms) and I have been working on developing stronger relationships with the broader web3 community. we went on the GreenPill podcast with Owocki, we also did a 7 part series on our research with SCRF
- GreenPill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaOlug9tOQ8
- SCRF Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWm8ksQq4YLFLgPSdKvrh5KU_n2gGCVp

We've been examining engineering practices as well as social science practice, and exploring how to bring science and engineering thinking into social systems without interrupting the critical intersubjective processes that make up "governance"
- https://medium.com/block-science/computer-aided-governance-cag-a-revolution-in-automated-decision-support-systems-9faa009e57a2
- https://blockscience.ghost.io/computer-aided-governance-in-action-steering-complex-systems-using-the-cag-map/


Animating Purpose, Governance as Conflict & Institutional Incompleteness (eric alston)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rohg5AM0iw

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## some future work
- Here is the pre-pre-print of the "computer aided ethnography blog" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XYZc0ObBJMjFHVr-CIPg1RnEgSWZ6DiFTfWTwSXn5UM/edit
- Here is another pre-pre-print on "disambiguating autonomy" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UwLHswjzk6mFwD-_0hZqO3vOB5RpSLbLQi9qflqiKdI/edit?usp=sharing

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## Some metagov stuff (none exhaustive)
see [metagov.org](https://metagov.org)
- been further exploring the concept of governance surface, on the more quantitive end there is this scrapping and analysis of smart contracts governance surfaces (concept defined in the cybernetics paper over)
- the technical legwork here done by Lucia
- https://daogovdata.info/
- https://github.com/notchia/daochem
- the above is a more quantitive extension of govbase
- https://govbase.metagov.org/
- also DAOstar (work with Josh Tan and many others)
- one major learning is that collecting data from the field (even a largely computer intermediate one) is still very hard if there are no reporting standards so we started developing standards with the DAO platform orgs
- https://daostar.org/
- tons of work going into this by lots of people, could be its own conversation
- and validator commons
- https://github.com/metagov/commons/blob/main/declaration.md
- remind me to come back to this there will be a recording of ellie talking about her learnings from being participant-observer in this organization
- As part of our contribution measurement research, Ellie and I are also supporting the team at Govrn.io, especially around measurement and words systems,
- some work from the team we are advising here
- http://www.nickmvincent.com/static/CollabRecords___CESC_22.pdf
- this is a continuation of a pretty long term research project, you can find some of my earlier explorations on sourcecred here (2019)
- https://medium.com/sourcecred/exploring-subjectivity-in-algorithms-5d8bf1c91714
- https://medium.com/sourcecred/network-formation-games-7a74491abf0e

## Another Interesting reference

recording of Sara Horowitz fireside with Evan Miyazono
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSbSRaA2VNo&list=PLhuBigpl7lqtMdPkejuo3mHdLFX53ftXJ&index=37