Subject
5 entries
Mechanism Design
Bookmarks
Theoretical Advances in AMM Understanding
A technical deep-dive on theoretical advances in understanding automated market makers (AMMs) — covering impermanent loss, concentrated liquidity, and how AMM design choices create different economic tradeoffs for liquidity providers. Essential reading for DeFi protocol design.
Empirical Analysis of EIP-1559: Transaction Fees, Waiting Time, and Consensus Security
This empirical study of Ethereum's EIP-1559 upgrade analyzes real on-chain data from the August 2021 London Hardfork to measure effects on transaction fees, waiting times, and miner incentives. It confirms improved fee predictability but also identifies new volatility patterns and security implications from the base fee burn mechanism.
Reputation vs. Tokens — DAOtalk Discussion
DAOtalk discussion on the fundamental tension between reputation-based and token-based governance in DAOs. Reputation is earned and non-transferable; tokens are liquid and purchasable — each encodes very different values about how power should be distributed.
Initial Reputation Distribution Methods — DAOtalk
A DAOtalk forum thread on the foundational governance design question: how to distribute initial reputation fairly in a DAO. Covers retroactive airdrops, contribution-based allocation, and the impossibility of perfectly fair bootstrapping.
Holographic Consensus — DAOstack's Scaling Mechanism
Matan Field's foundational paper on holographic consensus — DAOstack's mechanism for scaling DAO governance by using prediction markets to surface which proposals deserve the full DAO's attention. The core intellectual contribution behind the Genesis DAO and DAOstack protocol.