A Summary of My Work On Blockchain-Based Economic Coordination

I’ve always been fascinated by how we organise. This lead to a masters degree in the design of sustainable online communication, and eventually leading to a multi-year rabbit hole of trying to monetize new networks of value for coordination, agency & empowerment using blockchain technology. I’ve done various technical experiments (such as launching an altcoin around a decentralized band), and contributed to standards design such as helping design ERC20 on Ethereum.

Desire Paths: Organically forging optimal routes.

Much of the work is based on designing ways to more rapidly scale these new coordination networks, and having these systems function through only relying on crypto-economic design as a way to coordinate itself. It contains ideas from Dogecoin, to meme markets, to decentralized bands, to fostering public goods funding, to personal, attention tokens, to designing effective issuance & alignment models.

Better aligning ourselves will create a lot of agency and empowerment.

My thinking over the years:

• (Oct 2013) Rethinking Organisations: Hat tips from open source & decentralization. http://simondlr.com/post/65916546730/rethinking-organisations-hat-tips-from
• (Dec 2013) Thoughts about Dogecoin & Altcoins http://simondlr.com/post/70000336634/thoughts-about-dogecoin-and-altcoins (where it really all started) “Due to cryptocurrencies making it so very easy to launch money, does it unbundle value to simply being a network effect?”
• (Dec 2013) In the future, everyone will have their their own virtual currency. http://simondlr.com/post/70089813484/in-the-future-everyone-will-have-their-own
• (Jan 2014) Decentralized Altcoins Minted on Bitcoin Blockchain: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bitcoinx/mUb86IOeXdU/7pvmbFSPU3UJ
• (Feb 2014) Introducing “The Cypherfunks”: A decentralized band & cryptocurrency. http://simondlr.com/post/76630541569/introducing-the-cypherfunks-a-decentralized
• (Early 2014) Personal Coins & Agency http://simondlr.com/post/74046640303/personal-coins-and-agency
• (Early 2014) Currency As Language http://simondlr.com/post/81166506190/currency-as-language
• (Mid 2014) Towards Content-Producting Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. http://simondlr.com/post/97249557773/towards-content-producing-decentralized-autonomous
• (Mid 2014) Automated Network Investment Contracts: Ownership in the 21st Century http://simondlr.com/post/99342138053/automated-network-investment-contracts-ownership
• (Sept 2014) A Decentralized Tipping Contract: using blockchain tech to incentivize tipping of anything and everything. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cqFy8RG8-PvcJMu9yPvSNX63geKkjzBGx02iawxeSh0/edit
• (Nov 2014) Increasing novelty in online social spaces through tokens. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z6FmFOzsddIMIfOhdsigtJlB13Jsf6HnUq_in2ptODM/edit
• (Dec 2014) Darius: Decentralized Autonomous Reinforcing Information Use System (WIP) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MgOmZm9tUudUiZYcoBGbmAM8YDk5lUA7JWGadpLR7HQ/edit
• (Sept 2015) Maximizing Novelty: The Potential Use of Blockchains in the Design of Sustainable Online Communities. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o61nG-iWGd2TzMd6SudWrm8YN27ktjdcYnmZSA4PS8E/edit
• (March 2016) Organisations That Create Themselves Through Ethereum: https://medium.com/@simondlr/organisation-that-create-themselves-through-ethereum-700922bdbcca#.ec7ojzz97
• (July 2016) Monetizing Your Attention: Introducing Persona Attention Bonds. https://medium.com/@simondlr/monetizing-your-attention-introducing-persona-attention-bonds-c586111f0882
• (Sept 2016) Hashtag Markets: Mashing together Reddit, Schelling Points, Tokenisation & Autonomous Organisations. https://media.consensys.net/hashtag-markets-mashing-together-reddit-schelling-points-tokenisation-autonomous-organisations-ceec3cd3baf0
• (Nov 2016) Bootstrapping & Monetizing Decentralized Art Production with Meme Markets. https://medium.com/@simondlr/a-software-agent-without-human-control-that-produces-owns-sells-its-own-art-2a232e053329#.rkvsk7tnl
• (Dec 2016) Does your dapp need a token? https://medium.com/@simondlr/does-your-dapp-need-a-token-39412fd3c62c#.m3l0i6fia
• (Dec 2016): Introducing Meme Markets (Reddit): https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/5d5126/introducing_meme_markets_decentralized/
• (Dec 2016): Original Meme Markets whitepaper. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jm300CyrrAIbXtAopNhkYGqdmMdvUjdVDKcZU9VUdoQ/edit
• (Jan 2017): Revised Meme Markets Protocol Design v2 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CKK2jBYToHfkDM1XH4uVCSjXqOB6LxH8KdZbp8JHkqI/edit
• (Feb 2017): Exploring Continuous Token Models: Towards A Million Networks of Value → https://medium.com/@simondlr/exploring-continuous-token-models-towards-a-million-networks-of-value-fff153175776#.5ypbwtou3
• (Feb 2017): Eustress, Complexity, Social Systems Design & Blockchain Tokenization https://medium.com/@simondlr/eustress-complexity-social-systems-design-blockchain-tokenization-5c3e264dc258#.x9het7byh
• (March 2017): A Bonded Curation https://medium.com/@simondlr/a-bonded-curation-community-247f14a6de04
• (April 2017): Jack & The Giant Joint-Stock Pepe: The History & Future of the Corporation https://medium.com/startup-grind/jack-the-giant-joint-stock-pepe-the-history-future-of-the-corporation-f17d30aff411
• (May 2017): Towards a Generic Rare Pepe Design: Trading Digitally Scarce Content. https://medium.com/@simondlr/towards-a-generic-rare-pepe-design-trading-digitally-scarce-content-f221d9bb4755
• (May 2017): Introducing Curation Markets: Trade Popularity of Memes & Information (with code)! https://medium.com/@simondlr/introducing-curation-markets-trade-popularity-of-memes-information-with-code-70bf6fed9881
• (June 2017): A Practical Example of Curation Markets: An #ethtrader token for Curating Good Market Analysis. https://media.consensys.net/a-practical-example-of-curation-markets-an-ethtrader-token-for-curating-good-market-analysis-6f6f340c6916
• (July 2017): Curation Clubs https://medium.com/@simondlr/curation-clubs-tokenizing-incentivizing-public-funding-with-curation-markets-276613e641f0
• (July 2017): Tokenizing Wikipedia https://hackernoon.com/tokenizing-wikipedia-b89cf15485ff
• (July 2017): History Is Rhyming: Fitness Functions & Comparing Blockchain Tokens To The Web https://medium.com/@simondlr/history-is-rhyming-fitness-functions-comparing-blockchain-tokens-to-the-web-3c117239f4c

I feel I’m getting closer.