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SUMMARY:BlockchainGov Paris Symposium September 2025
DESCRIPTION:📅 BlockchainGov Symposium (Paris\, 25–26 September 2025)\nThe BlockchainGov Symposium: Present & Future of Blockchain Governance marked the culmination of five years of research. Over two days at Panthéon-Assas University\, our distinctive intellectual community of scholars\, practitioners & experts came together to reflect on the state of decentralized governance and to map our way forward. The quality of discourse and collaboration in Paris really showed how exceptional this group of thinkers is that we’ve built together over the past five years. Thank you again to all who joined us. \n\n\n\nThe first day focused on Community Governance & Design\, opening with a keynote by Judith Donath on trust\, underlining it as a problematic\, but permanent substrate for humanity. \n9:30-11:00\nTrust\, Confidence\, Legitimacy\nKeynote: Judith Donath\nDiscussant: Malcolm Campbell Verdyun\nModerator: Primavera De Filippi \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11:00-12:30\nBlockchain Governance Design\nPanel\nMichael Zargham\nJavier Arroyo\nPaul Dylan-Ennis\nModerator: Sofía Cossar\n \nFollowing this – Sofía Cossar moderated a panel on Blockchain Governance Design. Taking us through findings from the Blockchain Governance Cookbook & our Report on Blockchain Governance Dynamics. The panelists discussed the dynamics of polycentric governance\, the exogenous & endogenous legitimacy and the multidimensionality of Blockchain Governance\, how code\, law\, social norms\, and market forces make it a “techno-social beast” \nSlide from Sofia’s panel presentation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13:30 – 14:30\nMarkets & Democracy\nFireside Chat\nEric Alston & Puja Ohlaver\nModerator: Sofía Cossar \nThe program continued with a fireside chat with Puja Ohlaver and Eric Alston\, during which the audience engaged with them for the entire hour. Sofia sparked the conversation based on Puja’s latest paper “Community Currencies: The Price Of Attention And Cost Of Influence In A Networked Age”\, contrasting it with Eric Alston’s two papers on Market Maturity and Regulatory Risk Propagation. While Puja’s paper can be seen as prescriptive\, Eric’s can be seen as descriptive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14:30- 15:30\nBlockchain & Accountability\nKeynote: Joshua Fairfield\nDiscussant: Primavera De Filippi \nJoshua Fairfield delivered a keynote on “Smarter Contracts”\, recalling the early legal debates around smart contracts – when lawyers often remarked that they were “neither smart\, nor contracts.” This was followed by a jam with Primavera De Filippi\, exploring accountability structures for AI and analogies that could guide future legal research. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n16:00- 17:30\nProgressive Decentralization & Exit 2 Community\nPanel\nJacqueline Radebaugh\nNathan Schneider\nFederico Ast\nModerator: Tara Merk \nThe final panel of Day 1 was E2C. Tara\, who just finished her PhD on this topic\, outlined the key challenges currently facing E2C projects: \n\nUnclear and disputed purpose\nFragmented deliberation spaces\nIncomplete governance design and lack of legitimate leadership\n\nFor a recap on this panel\, read this thread on X\, where Theo Beutel captures Nathan Schneider’s memorable tangent that “DAOs are bananas”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThat marks the end of day 1 of our conference. BlockchainGov hosted a reception where we stayed until we got kicked out. Onwards to day 2: \nDay 2 focused on Institutions & Global Structures\, and started with: \n9:30-11:00\nRule of Code vs. Rule of Law\nKeynote: Larry Catá Backer\nDiscussant: Marina Markezic\nModerator: Primavera De Filippi \nThe first session of the day was a keynote by Larry Catá Backer\, questioning blockchain technology’s role in reinforcing cognitive cages. You can find a write-up of the talk here: https://www.backerinlaw.com/Site/podcasts/speeches-and-remarks/ . \nMarina Markezic followed and spoke about the regulatory reality and evolution in Europe. Read more about her work here: https://eu.ci/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11:00-11:45\nInteractive research seminar\nIn a fishbowl format\, Xavier Lavayssiere\, Theo Beutel\, and Ellie Rennie helped facilitate an impromptu seminar exploring how academic research can be adapted to analyze decentralized and evolving socio-technical systems. Some of the topics touched on were: \n\nRisks and benefits of collaboration between blockchain researchers and practitioners?\nHow can scholars maintain analytical distance while accessing insider knowledge?\nCan “participatory” research become advocacy? where should the line be drawn?\nWhat makes digital ethnography of blockchain communities distinct from other online ethnographies?\n\n11:45-12:30\nAlegality\nPanel\nAaron Lane\nJoachim Schwerin\nLayer 0\nModerator: Jamilya Kamalova & Esen Esener \nWe then turned to the Alegality panel\, led by two of BlockchainGov’s PhD researchers. The conversation moved between EU regulatory frameworks and protocol design\, asking how governance can keep pace with innovations that constantly push the limits of legality. \nJoachim Schwerin said: “If shutting down Bitcoin were possible\, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.” \nPrimavera De Filippi & Morshed Mannan have written about alegality here.\nAnd Esen Esener here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13:30 – 14:30\nBlockchain Governance and Power Dynamics\nPanel\nPierre Noro\nLaura Lotti\nEllie Rennie\nModerator: Tara Merk \nThe panel on Blockchain Governance Dynamics offered a collection of thought-provoking takes. Pierre Noro introduced the idea of “blockchain blasphemy\,” Laura Lotti discussed crypto’s “three-body problem” and the normative vacuums created by censorship resistance\, and Ellie Rennie presented the notion of “hyperaxis order” as a resilience ingredient that can enable institutions to expand meaningfully across space and time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14:30- 15:30\nNetwork Sovereignties\nPanel\nClara Gromanches\nVirginia Zangs\nJudd Smith\nRithikha Rajamohan\nJohan Michalove\nModerator: Sofía Cossar \nOur final two panels treated the topic of Network Sovereignties & Network Nations. One of the main topics that BlockchainGov will focus our research on in the final year of our project. The first panel brought together a collection of reflections on territoriality from last year’s SOAM residents. They discussed how identity\, coordination\, and empowerment structures are being redesigned in relation to new definitions of territoriality. Examples stretched from physical spaces\, digital platforms and imaginary realms. It is a well-curated collection of ideas and proposals\, all of which will be published here in the coming weeks. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n16:00-17:00\nNetwork Nations\nPanel\nLiav Orgad\nAndrea Leiter\nHelena Rong\nModerator: Primavera De Filippi \nOur grand Finale was the Network Nations panel hosted by Primavera De Filippi where Liav Orgad\, Andrea Leiter & Helena Rong participated. We discussed the concept of Network Nations\, a contrasting approach to Balaji’s “network state”. \nHowever Network Nations differ in distinctive ways\, a core distinction is that they don’t have a need for territorial claims\, physical infrastructure and other needs that emerge from building territory based ecosystems. The Network Nations are aterritorial\, allowing for sovereign communities to organize and self-govern as a nation building endeavor one abstraction layer above territorial jurisdictions. They have operational autonomy and in extention also enjoys functional sovereignty. BlockchainGov will develop this research further in the next year. In the meantime\, read more about the framework here: https://networknations.network/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThat concluded our Final BlockchainGov Symposium. Thank you to all who joined us in Paris. It was a true pleasure to test and try our favorite topics with you all\, and we are looking forward to next year’s exploration.
URL:https://blockchaingov.eu/event123/blockchaingov-paris-symposium-september-2025/
LOCATION:Panthéon Assas – Université Paris II
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SUMMARY:Argentina Onchain @ Edge City Patagonia
DESCRIPTION:Argentina Onchain is a 2-week residency at Edge City Patagonia dedicated to exploring practical onchain solutions for real-world problems in Argentina’s private\, public\, and third sectors. \n​From Nov 1–14 in San Martín de los Andes\, we’ll bring together leading researchers\, builders\, and local collaborators to examine systemic challenges and initiate novel\, context-aware approaches. \n\n\n​Week 1 offers an intensive curriculum that introduces the real-world use cases participants will address in Week 2. It covers existing onchain solutions\, mechanism design practices\, and key considerations for impactful onchain solutions\, including ethics and economics\, politics and culture\, and legal interfacing. \n\n\n​Week 2 moves into collaborative design sprints\, with participants selecting a real-world use case and developing a proposal informed by the insights from Week 1. These proposals will be submitted to the corresponding Argentine institution. \n\n\n​This residency blends high-level analysis with grounded\, locally relevant experimentation. If you’re ready to participate and help shape the future of onchain innovation in Argentina\, register today! \n​Co-organized by Ethereum Foundation\, Crecimiento\, SEED Latam\, Polkadot Academy\, BlockchainGov\, Syndicate\, Mechanism Institute\, and Deep Work.
URL:https://blockchaingov.eu/event123/argentina-onchain-edge-city-patagonia/
LOCATION:San Martin de Los Andes
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