Hey Anne, interesting to see the quadratic voting formula applied to social scoring ("trust") rather than token scoring (which is usually monetary in nature). On first glance, I am wondering if this is a good application of the quadratic voting tool. In my mind, QV is ideally a tool whereby…

An Academic Analysis of Prominent Commons-Based DLT Projects — This piece introduces a new academic paper that discusses the technological affordances of leading commons-based DLT projects and their potential to address Ostrom’s 6 challenges to scaling the global commons, as introduced in her paper Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges. …

See if You Can Save the Future with cadCAD, RadicalxChange & the Commons Stack — TL;DR: Why did we do this? The Simulator serves several purposes: To introduce the audience to the importance of the commons and the inspiring RadicalxChange movement in bringing about more equitable futures. To demonstrate how to parameterize and model a Cyber-Physical Commons in an entertaining and gamified medium, using art and storytelling.

Announcing the Conviction Voting cadCAD Model Release — This article is announcing the release of the Conviction Voting cadCAD model, a digital twin of the Conviction Voting ecosystem currently deployed at 1Hive.org. The content below is pulled primarily from the readme file of the model notebook. …

An Evolution From DAOs to Commons Ecosystems — This article is part of a series on cyber-physical commons. If you would like more background on the importance of the commons and the definition of cyber-physical systems, check out our first article here. …

Designing Cyber-Physical Commons to be ‘Ostrom Compliant’ — This article is part of a series explaining the cyber-physical commons architecture that is being built out by the Commons Stack. Few people have contributed as much to our knowledge of the sustainable management of the commons as Elinor Ostrom. Winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for her work…

Open Sourcing cadCAD as a Cornerstone of Permissionless Public Infrastructure — Our purpose in launching the Commons Stack is to build an open-source, token engineered component library that people around the world can use to assemble their own highly customized, simulated & tested DAO ecosystems. This engineering infrastructure will underpin the stability of our cryptoeconomic networks of the future, a key…

Establishing Healthy Initialization Conditions for DAO Ecosystems — Co-authored by Griff Green, edited by Kris Decoodt Note: This article was originally published on the Giveth blog on August 7 ’19, you can find this here. Update: This legacy article reflects the base nutrients upon which we have grown our Trusted Seed. …

The Future of DAO Governance Support via the Commons Stack — A Commons Stack article, co-authored with Michael Zargham Note: this article was originally published on the BlockScience blog on August 7 ’19, you can find this here. As you may have already noticed, we at the Commons Stack are truly excited about the potential of computer-aided design tools when building…