The Decentralized Future Council is pleased to announce that Julia Benz will join the organization as our new Sustainability Web3 Fellow. Her fellowship began this month for a six-month period. In this role, Julia will be researching various topics relating to sustainability in blockchain and other decentralized technologies. Julia will…

The third and final part of a privacy series written by Decentralized Future Council Fellow, Gabrielle Hibbert. — Introduction Now understanding the history of privacy in web1 and web2, and having addressed the potential of privacy in web3, part three of this blog series will focus on the technologies in web3 that provide layers of privacy and pseudonymity for the user. Privacy enhancing technologies, henceforth referred to as…

Understanding the web of privacy in the web3 space through transaction data and the unresolved permanence of our privacy landscape — The second part of a three part profile from Decentralized Future Council Fellow, Gabrielle Hibbert. Introduction In the first part of our blog series, a condensed history of the privacy landscape of web1 explained the rise of the privacy conscious movement of the cypherpunks. …

The first part in a three part profile from Decentralized Future Council Fellow, Gabrielle Hibbert Where is privacy in the web3 space? Since Bitcoin’s emergence in 2008, when the pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto published their research paper on a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash, a renewed discussion on the construction…

In every election cycle, political organizations — campaigns, committees, PACs, and others — experiment with new ways of reaching and persuading voters. Amid a growing interest in decentralized internet technologies, some political organizations have been testing out Web3-related tools and technologies. Depending on who you ask, Web3 is either the…

Today, Biden’s executive order on cryptocurrency upholds that decentralized technologies can be a means for innovation and competition when paired with responsibility and accountability. The Decentralized Future Council supports Biden’s view of embracing responsible technologies with appropriate rail guards to provide benefits to greater society. …

While many hope that Web3 technologies will transform the internet by decentralizing and redistributing control of essential services and infrastructures, the problems of moderating user generated content aren’t going anywhere. Content moderation has been a major concern for Web2 platforms and will almost certainly be one for Web3 apps as…