Your Guide to the Commons Stack @ Berlin Blockchain Week 2019

This article was originally published on Giveth on August 9, 2019. You can find it here.

All credits to Berlin Blockchain Week — click & register for all events!

Update: Most of our events now have links below 👇👇👇 to videos and notes we made — along with some special links & shout outs to our favorite talks of the week! 🎉🎉

Planning to attend Berlin Blockchain Week? So are we!

We’ll have a presence at most of the major events, and we’d love for you to join us there. We’ve already published some introductory articles on what the Commons Stack is all about, but there is so much more to tell. We are building a modular ‘tech stack for the commons’, that will enable communities to bootstrap themselves to achieve their goals in spite of insufficient donations, grants, and pro-bono contributions. You are this community and we’d love to hear your thoughts on this, in Berlin.

In addition to attending our talks (which we hope you will — the full list is below), keep an eye out for Michael Zargham, Jeff Emmett, Stefaan Ponnet, Kris Decoodt, Max Semenchuk, and Kay Gertler. They’ll attend lots of events and will be happy to answer all your Commons Stack-related questions. We’ve been living, eating and breathing token engineering for the past several months and we can’t wait to share all our ideas and plans, and listen to your feedback!

Finally, while we know that all the events during this week will be awesome, the presentation we are personally looking forward to most will take place at TEGG on August 23rd, 17:30 at TU Berlin. This is where Jeff, our explainer-in-chief, will present our vision for how the Commons Stack can be used to hack at global challenges that affect everyone — like cleaning up our planet — by addressing the core underlying problems related to the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’. If you’re interested in the Commons Stack and you will be in Berlin, register here, we’d love to see you there!

Now, for the schedule of Commons Stack events during Berlin Blockchain Week:

🌟 Talk: “The Age of Networks and the Rebirth of Cybernetics” (Recording)

• Our fearless (thought) leader Michael Zargham will discuss the field of cybernetics as it relates to the domains of social and economic system governance.
• Location: Web3 Summit at Funkhaus, Studio 1 (Main Stage) — get your tickets here!
• Time: 14:25–14:45, Monday August 19

🌟 Lightning talk: “cadCAD for Design, Test and Validation of Complex Systems Through Simulation” (Recording)

• Michael Zargham discusses the Commons Stack’s simulation software, cadCAD, at an event hosted by the DGOV Foundation and the Commons Stacks’s own Max Semenchuk
• Location: Web3 Summit at Funkhaus, DGOV node — get your tickets here!
• Time: 10:15–10:35, Tuesday August 20

🌟 Lightning talk: “Commons Stack, Augmented Bonding Curves and More: a Short Explainer” (Recording)

• Jeff Emmett discusses our augmented bonding curve component at an event hosted by the DGOV Foundation and the Commons Stacks’s own Max Semenchuk
• Location: Web3 Summit at Funkhaus, DGOV node — get your tickets here!
• Time: between 10:35–11:00, Tuesday August 20

🌟 Fishbowl: “Ecosystem Funding DAOs: Current Successes and Failures” (Notes & recording)

• A panel of Ameen Soleimani (Moloch), Pet3r Pan (Metacartel), Luke Duncan (Aragon Fundraising), Niran Babalola (Panvala) and our own Jeff Emmett (moderator) will discuss how well the current generation of Ecosystem Funding DAOs are working and how far we have to go.
• Location: Web3 Summit at Funkhaus, DGOV node — get your tickets here!
• Time: 14:00–15:00, Tuesday August 20

🌟 Talk: “Towards a diversity of DAOs” (Recording)

• Michael Zargham discusses DAO design and AI ethics, and how assumptions that designers make can impact users and the broader public.
• Location: DAOfest at Spielfeld — register here!
• Time: 15:30–16:00, Tuesday August 20

🌟 Outlier Ventures’ “Diffusion 2019” mixer:

• The Commons Stack team will be hanging out with our advisors from Outlier Ventures, and we’d love to hang out with you and talk big ideas!
• Location: The Factory Mitte (register here)
• Time: 18:00–21:00, Wednesday August 21

🌟 Panel: “DAOs & Finance 3.0 meets the Art World”

• Jeff Emmett and others discuss the intersection of art and Blockchain and how DAOs might relate to artistic and cultural production. This panel is hosted by the Trojan Foundation.
• Location: Upvest at Kleine Präsidentenstraße 1, Berlin.
• Time: 17:30–19:30, Thursday August 22

🌟 Talk: “Token Engineering in Practice” (Recording)

• Michael Zargham discusses the methods and tools being applied to design token engineering.
• Location: TEGG at DappCon (Technische Universität Berlin) — get your DappCon tickets here!
• Time: 14:10–14:40, Friday August 23

🌟 Talk: “cadCAD: a Walkthrough of the Augmented Bonding Curve Module”

• Jeff Emmett and Stefaan Ponnet demonstrate how the Commons Stack’s Augmented Bonding Curve module (ABC) will work. They will simulate it via cadCAD, our software for testing complex systems before they’re deployed into the wild.
• Location: TEGG at DappCon (Technische Universität Berlin) — get your DappCon tickets here!
• Time: 15:00–17:00, Friday August 23

🌟 Talk: “Scaling the Commons to Re-prioritize People & the Planet” (Noti.st)(Recording here)

• This is the big one. Jeff Emmett discusses all things Commons Stack, and drops some very special announcements!
• Location: TEGG at DappCon (Technische Universität Berlin) — get your DappCon tickets here!
• Time: 17:30–17:50, Friday August 23

We thought we’d give a special shoutout to some of highly relevant talks from the TEGG event, for anyone who missed all the action!

🌟 Talk: “Token Engineering — a New Scientific Discipline” (Recording)

• by Krzysztof Paruch,Token Engineer and Cryptoeconomist at the Research Lab for Cryptoeconomics, WU Vienna

🌟 Talk: “Aligning Interests: Reward Mechanisms and the Engineering of Token Incentives” (Recording)

• by Dr Jamsheed Shorish, Founder and CEO at Shorish Research

🌟 Talk: “The TAO of Token Economies” (Recording)

• by Sebnem Rusitschka, Founder Freeelio, CTO EnergiMine

🌟 Panel: “Meditations on Free/Libre and Open Source Sustainability” (Recording)

• hosted by Abbey Titcomb, with Dandelion (SourceCred), Eleftherios Diakomichalis(OsCoin), Kevin Owocki (Gitcoin)

To learn more about the Commons Stack, check out these articles on medium, where we describe our goals and the specific tools we’ll use to achieve them.

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👉 By applying to become a Member of the Commons Stack you will help us help you realign our economies to re-prioritize people and the planet. You can do this here: commonsstack.org/apply.

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