The rules to make the rules

Digital Democracy in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations

Decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) are institutional technologies that enable democratic governance innovation. They inherit key democratic principles such as procedural transparency and immutable records from being based on blockchain technology. This paper conducts a systematic literature review to examine governance mechanisms and challenges of digital democracy in DAOs. While issues like power concentration and coordination failures exist in current implementations, we argue that the concept of DAOs offers new opportunities for transparent governance and participatory decision-making. As testbeds for governance experiments, we find that DAOs have the potential to reshape democratic processes and foster innovative governance models in the digital era. Calling for interdisciplinary collaboration, further research is needed around Sybil-resistant voting mechanisms, ideological path dependencies and deliberation mechanisms.

Trust Revolution

Unfiltered conversations with builders, thinkers, and operators in Bitcoin and beyond. Exploring systems we trust, why they work (or don't), and what's next.

GiveTrack™ - The future of philanthropy built upon Bitcoin and Blockchain

Big Brain Holdings

We are witnessing the early stages of a technological revolution, with blockchain at its core—a shift as impactful as the advent of the internet.

Trent McConaghy - Bio

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Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage

Podcast Episode · The Blockchain Socialist · March 4 · 1h 3m

Governing Digital Legal Systems: Insights on Artificial Intelligence and Rules as Code · MIT Computational Law Report

This article explores how AI and 'rules as code' are turning law into automated systems. It highlights the need for governance focused on transparency, explainability, and risk management to ensure these digital legal frameworks stay reliable and fair.

Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial

As the Trump family’s crypto dealings raise more alarms, crypto enforcement is falling to new lows

a practical guide to decentralization (for my friends) - tim's tinkerings

Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization by …

How Control Exists after Decentralization by Galloway, …

Modular Politics: Toward a Governance Layer for Online Communities

Governance in online communities is an increasingly high-stakes challenge, and yet many basic features of offline governance legacies--juries, political parties, term limits, and formal debates, to name a few--are not in the feature-sets of the software most community platforms use. Drawing on the paradigm of Institutional Analysis and Development, this paper proposes a strategy for addressing this lapse by specifying basic features of a generalizable paradigm for online governance called Modular Politics. Whereas classical governance typologies tend to present a choice among wholesale ideologies, such as democracy or oligarchy, Modular Politics would enable platform operators and their users to build bottom-up governance processes from computational components that are modular and composable, highly versatile in their expressiveness, portable from one context to another, and interoperable across platforms. This kind of approach could implement pre-digital governance systems as well as accelerate innovation in uniquely digital techniques. As diverse communities share and connect their components and data, governance could occur through a ubiquitous network layer. To that end, this paper proposes the development of an open standard for networked governance.

Bitcoin Open Roadmap

Public roadmap for bitcoin products and initiatives at Block. See what we’re building, what’s next, and how we’re advancing Bitcoin at Block.

The Seven Rules of Trust

The Seven Rules of Trust‍ is a book by Jimmy Wales written with Dan Gardner and published by Crown Currency and Bloomsbury on October 28, 2025. The book presents Wikipedia co-founder Wales's view on how to mend division in society through the building of trust in seven rules, which serve as subheadings in the book.