Why WiHi — Research & useful information

This is a living document in which we share insightful and research-based information from the WiHi community on decentralized physical infrastructure networks, regenerative finance, web3, weather & climate modeling and participatory sensing — basically what WiHi is about.

Blog articles

• Futarchy — Using humanity’s collective intelligence in decision-making
• Why web3 matters: Harnessing DePIN and ReFi as a Force for Good
• DePIN and ReFi — Executive summaries on sustainable web3 projects with real world utility
• DePINs are three-sided markets — an evaluation guide for investors to access decentralized physical infrastructure networks
• Chain selection for a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN)
• Valuing burn-and-mint
• WiHi: Advancing weather and climate intelligence in Africa

Podcasts/ Spaces:

• Deep dive into DePIN with Frederik Ahlgren from srcful
• DePin: Web3 solution to the climate crisis? (with Helium, Solana ReFi, Solana Foundation, Sunrise Stake, Proto, WiHi)

w3ather research

Here we share our academic research contributions.

web3

• Burn-and-Mint Tokenomics: Deflation and Strategic Incentives
• A Taxonomy for Blockchain-based Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN)
• DePIN: A Framework for Token-Incentivized Participatory Sensing
• Are you a DePIN?A Decision Tree to ClassifyDecentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks
• Democracy by Design: Perspectives for Digitally Assisted, Participatory Upgrades of Society
• Constructing value-sensitive cryptoeconomic systems
• Impact of blockchain-based token incentives on human information sharing behavior

weather

• Distributed weather sensing incentivization
• An ensemble-based statistical methodology to detect differences in weather and climate model executables
• Model intercomparison of COSMO 5.0 and IFS 45r1 at kilometer-scale grid spacing

WiHi innovations

• Idea market mechanism: This tool brings back self-organization to decentralized communities by improving crowd-financing with the concept of separating idea proposer from executor.

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