Blockchain networks and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have seen a surge in adoption in recent years. However, to fulfill their promise of widespread structural innovation and change meaningfully, they require […]

BlockchainGov will be participating in the upcoming International Conference on DAO Regulation, hosted by the Lisbon DAO Observatory. The event will take place on April 20th, 2023, at the Faculty […]

DAO Harvard: Exploring the Implications of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are an emerging technology with immense potential to revolutionize how we think about social and economic organization. […]

We are proud to announce the participation of Sofía Cossar, Tara Merk, and Jamilya Kamalova in the Metagovernance Seminar. They will present their findings from a six-month ethnographic study of […]

10th Meeting of European Research Council BlockchainGov Project Genereal Catch-up call Polycentricity report Constitutions literature review Communication update Blockchain & Constitutions KLEROS Internal Discussion on Blockchain & Constitutions PhD developments […]

Después de recopilar sus comentarios sobre los hallazgos de la Investigación Etnográfica de PoH DAO, queremos organizar una llamada comunitaria dirigida por Sofia, Tara y Jamilya. Compartirán información sobre los […]

After gathering your feedback on the PoH DAO Ethnography Research Findings, we wanted to organize a community call hosted by Sofia, Tara, and Jamilya. They will share information on the […]

Web3 is a "decentralized online ecosystem based on blockchain” (Gavin Wood, 2014). Web3 governance broadly describes the rules and processes that are used for decision-making over platforms and applications that are […]

9th Meeting of European Research Council BlockchainGov Project Review the action items from the last meeting: ERC BlockchainGOV September Papers Communication: website and social media IGN ONTOCHAIN - DAOstar Grant […]

The RMIT University Blockchain Innovation Hub / Digital Ethnography Research Centre, Metagov, and BlockchainGov are hosting a reading group on digital ethnography and blockchain. The group aims to bring together […]

The "Blockchain Technology & Polycentric Governance" reading group investigates the polycentric governance of blockchain systems from descriptive, conceptual, and normative perspectives. The reading group aims to test several preliminary hypotheses […]

The Researching Web3 Workshop was a two-day online event focused on exploring Web3, a field built upon blockchain technologies. Scholars from academia came together to generate new research questions, learn […]

Extitutions & Blockchain / Web3 Research Workshop This research workshop was focused on extitutional theory, which is about the interplay between institutions and extitutions. The events included discussions on the […]

The BlockchainGov Public Workshop was divided into four sessions, each focusing on a specific aspect of blockchain technology. Session 1 was dedicated to the case of Tornado Cash. After the […]

8th Meeting of European Research Council BlockchainGov Project   Review the action items from the last meeting: Welcome on board, Marco! DAO Model Law Discussion & Debrief: EthCC ETHICOMP dWeb […]

The Stanford DAO Workshop, hosted by the DAO Research Hub and the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, aimed to accelerate research on DAOs by bringing together leading DAO operators and […]

Join us tomorrow at the "Exploring Digital Identity for Decentralized Societies" event organised by RadicalxChange Foundation. The event will take place online, learn more and register here. Will take place […]

Blockchaingov meet up with the Kleros team  Chaired by Primavera De Filippi the meeting included our PhD students Tara Merk, Sofía Cossar, Jamilya Kamalova and our colleague Sabine Van Haecke-Lepic Ph.D who together with the Kleros team had […]

6th Meeting of European Research Council BlockchainGov Project   Review the action items from the last meeting: Discussion & Debrief: DAO Palace Law and Society Association Conference in Lisbon Papers: […]

Photo Credit: EUCI LinkedIn page. The second EUCI Workshop was organised in collaboration with COALA and the BlockchainGov project of the European Research Council (ERC). The legislative and executive branches of […]

6th Meeting of European Research Council BlockchainGov Project Discussion & Debrief from Florence NFT Licensing Framework (call) DADA Governance (call) Academic papers: Discussion on Decentraland paper EthCC Paris. Collaboration with […]

This workshop is aimed at academics and practitioners interested in blockchain governance, with a focus on trust, confidence and legitimacy. (European University Institute) While interrelated, the concepts of trust, confidence […]

5th Meeting of European Research Council BlockchainGov Project   Review the action items from the last meeting: Theory session: Identity Siddarth, D. et al (2020) Who Watches the Watchmen? A […]

Trebor Scholz's upcoming presentation on his new book "Own This!" is not to be missed. In his talk, Scholz will examine the world in the midst of a changing landscape […]

The COALA DAO Model Law workshop was aimed at improving the COALA DAO Model Law, a legal framework tailored to the specific features and needs of DAOs. The agenda included […]

The DAOist Global Governance Gathering, which took place on April 18-19, 2022, hosted a workshop on DAOs. The workshop aimed to bring together researchers and operators from various disciplines to […]

4th Meeting of European Research Council BlockchainGov Project Review the action items from the last meeting: updates in relation to the progress of action items. Theory session (1): Blockchain & […]

The rise of blockchain technology has disrupted traditional models of governance, raising questions about legitimacy and trust. To better understand the practical and empirical conceptions of justice and dispute resolution […]

3rd Meeting of European Research Council BlockchainGov Project   Review the action items from the last meeting. Theory session: Societal Constitutionalism :  Golia & Teubner - Societal Constitutionalism (mandatory), Teubner’s Constitutional […]

2nd Meeting of European Research Council BlockchainGov Project   Researchers presented their work progress:  Op'eds & case studies  Pilots sessions: DADA, Kleros.io, PoH, dORG.  IGF Agenda and planning Communication and […]