Welcome to the fourth Decentralization Research Center update.

For the 16 new subscribers: This monthly briefing will keep you updated on invitations for events and research relevant to decentralization, DAOs and governance.

If you’re working on related research or would like to get involved in our work, please reach out to us via info@thedrcenter.org. We’d love to hear from you!

Connor Spelliscy
Executive Director
Decentralization Research Center

Attend

🇺🇸 2024 Equitable Tech Summit, June 6 — We continue to prepare for our conference at the National Press Club in D.C. in partnership with the Blockchain Association, Metagov, and Project Liberty.

Apply here to attend. Apologies if we are not able to accommodate you as space is very limited.

🇫🇷 Paris Blockchain Week, April 9-11 — Aside from the main agenda, this includes a week-long series of events with a hackathon, a talent fair, an Investors and Founders Day, among others. Learn more here.

🇩🇪 Berlin Blockchain Week, May 18-27 — A decentralized community-organized initiative, this 10-day program is focused on blockchain education and mass adoption. You can learn more here.

Read

Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy (full text here) by Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, and the Plurality Community.

The goal of Plurality is to support democracy through digital technology, and to create visual pathways with the global community through the digital governance paradigm that naturally emerges from Internet collaboration. To this end, we expect that it will transcend the high walls and deep silos that divide the world today. We want to tell the world about this new possibility, and in doing so, inspire diversity, cross-disciplinary coordination, investment, and innovative experimentation to make the vision a reality.

Other key work featuring DRC Fellows and community:

• Democratic Erosion of Data-Opolies: Decentralized Web3 Technological Paradigm Shift Amidst AI Disruption

• Introducing the Collective Intelligence Project: Solving the Transformative Technology Trilemma through Governance R&D

• Compressed to 0: The Silent Strings of Proof of Personhood

Listen

🎙️ Techquitable: Can we combine securities laws with innovation? — With Hester Peirce, Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

🎙️ Fellow Spotlight: Shrey Jain of Microsoft — in this spotlight, Shrey Jain discusses his recent paper, Contextual Confidence and Generative AI 

See you next month.

The DRC Team