Welcome to the monthly Decentralization Research Center update.

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

We are rapidly approaching the DAO Workshop, on August 6th, in NYC, and it’s your last chance to sign up! Click here for more information and to apply to attend.

And right around the corner is the July 9th European Crypto Initiative event, "Shaping the Digital Frontier: Navigating the Future of Regulation and Innovation" in Brussels. Apply here to reserve a spot.

Read

Some of the most relevant work on decentralization from the last month, including pieces by DRC Fellows, Affiliates, and Researchers, as well as the wider community:

• Our friends at Tally have released their Modern Guide to Digital Governance (pictured below) as well as describing the advantages of separating voting power from financial utility

• The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority released a briefing codifying when companies can be considered to be decentralized, and Project Liberty outlined a path toward responsible technology

• Nathan Schneider presents his reasons for “cautious but determined hope” in the future of blockchain, and a new book by Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers, and Morshed Mannan looks at how blockchain offers radically new ways to govern people and institutions (pictured below)

• Lina Pauline Schrott and Manuel Olariu describe the process that Gitcoin uses to fund decentralized science research and Open Future’s Paul Keller calls for “public digital infrastructure that supports our democracies, allows people to enjoy their fundamental rights, and prioritizes the creation of public value while protecting the commons”

• Audrey Tang argues that leveraging collective intelligence is crucial for effective AI regulation, promoting societal cohesion and democratic values, and Yohan Yun describes a unique and experimental approach to raising funds for aging populations in isolated rural communities

• BlockchainGov and Project Liberty present a “cookbook filled with recipes for designers seeking to develop resilient + robust blockchain governance systems”

Listen

🎙️ Techquitable: What impact will the future of blockchains have on constitutions and institutions? DRC Executive Director Connor Spelliscy spoke with DRC Fellow Professor Eric Alston on the Techquitable podcast to discuss Eric's career in economics and law, decentralization in digital governance, and much more. 

See you next month.

The DRC Team