Algorithms and Mechanisms for Digital Democracy

Reading list

General

Foundations for grassroots democratic metaverse (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.04090.pdf)

Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105763)

https://tik-old.ee.ethz.ch/file/49318d3f56c1d525aabf7fda78b23fc0/p2p2013_041.pdf

https://tik-db.ee.ethz.ch/file/74bc987e6ab4a8478c04950616612f69/CDE+16.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.09642.pdf

Consensus

Cordial miners (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.09174.pdf)

Discouragement Attacks (https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/papers/discouragement/discouragement.pdf)

Incentives in Ethereum's hybrid Casper protocol (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/nem.2098)

Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3132747.3132757)

Scalable and Probabilistic Leaderless BFT Consensus through Metastability (Avalanche consensus whitepaper)

Scaling Blockchains: Can Committee-based Consensus Help?

Sybil and unique identifiers

Interpreting Graph-based Sybil Detection Methods as Low-Pass Filtering (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.10835.pdf)

BrightID whitepaper (https://www.brightid.org/whitepaper)

Proof of Humanity whitepaper (https://blog.kleros.io/proof-of-humanity-an-explainer/)

WorldCoin (https://worldcoin.org/the-worldcoin-protocol)

Projects about unique IDs: https://www.rootsid.com/ ; https://www.proofspace.id/ ; https://www.atalaprism.io/

Building a Sybil-Resilient Digital Community Utilizing Trust-Graph Connectivity 

Cryptocurrencies and cryptoeconomies

Bryan Ford - Democratic Value and Money for Decentralized Digital Society - https://bford.info/pub/soc/money/

Cryptoeconomics as a Limitation on Governance (https://files.osf.io/v1/resources/dzasq/providers/osfstorage/6121d9ded2109701fc6b49af?view_only=a10581ae9a804aa197ac39ebbba05766&direct&version=8)

Sovereign cryptocurrencies (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.05619.pdf)

Egalitarian and Just Digital Currency Networks 

Computational Social Choice

Quadratic Voting (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26452700.pdf)

Preferential Delegation and the Problem of Negative Voting Weight (https://liquid-democracy-journal.org/issue/3/The_Liquid_Democracy_Journal-Issue003-01-Preferential_Delegation_and_the_Problem_of_Negative_Voting_Weight.html)

Social Choice Around the Block: On the Computational Social Choice of Blockchain (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.07777.pdf)

Sybil resilient social choice (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.11105.pdf)

Conviction voting (https://medium.com/giveth/conviction-voting-a-novel-continuous-decision-making-alternative-to-governance-aa746cfb9475)

Better collective decisions via uncertainty reduction

United for Change: Deliberative Coalition Formation to Change the Status Quo 

Sybil-Resilient Social Choice with Partial Participation 

Aggregation over Metric Spaces: Proposing and Voting in Elections, Budgeting, and Legislation 

Governance and DAOs

A Decentralized Governance Framework for Open Source Software Organizations (https://studenttheses.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/20.500.12932/598/DAO%20for%20OSS%20Governance%20MBI%20Thesis%20Jozef%20Siu.pdf?sequence=1)

The Pragmatists Guide to DAOing aka Reasonable ways to Govern a DAO (https://mirror.xyz/media.sobol.eth/_qfTMgEws2OZOMBxj-Elz7A0lto2gyaHmAFv_gKLYBE)

A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods (https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3337)

UMA whitepaper (https://umaproject.org/UMA-whitepaper.pdf)

In the Beginning there were n Agents: Founding and Amending a Constitution 

Democratic Forking: Choosing Sides with Social Choice 

A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW ON BLOCKCHAIN GOVERNANCE

MORE STUFF FOR LATER

https://future.com/dao-canon/

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1807/1807.11218.pdf

https://gramoli.github.io/pubs/CCGrid23-GovernanceReconfiguration.pdf

https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/1.18690!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/527033a.pdf

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4302681 (and the links within)