Blockchain governance

How blockchain networks, protocols and DAOs make, enforce and change their own rules: voting, treasuries, forks, upgrades, validators and on-chain constitutions.

A better design for defi grant programs

Commentary · 18 July 2021 · with Darcy W.E. Allen
Building a grammar of blockchain governance

Commentary · Medium post · 16 June 2021 · with Darcy W.E. Allen, Jason Potts, Sinclair Davidson and Trent MacDonald
An economic theory of blockchain foundations

Working papers · Potts, J., Allen, D.W.E., Berg, C., Davidson, S. and MacDonald, T. (2021) · Working paper, SSRN
DeFi governance needs better tokenomics

Commentary · 13 April 2021 · with Sinclair Davidson
Rentseeking in blockchain governance: the awkward transition from market decisionmaking to non-market decisionmaking

Working papers · Berg, C. (2021) · Working paper, SSRN
Commitment voting: a mechanism for intensity of preference revelation and long-term commitment in blockchain governance

Working papers · Berg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2020) · Working paper, SSRN
Blockchain Governance: What we can Learn from the Economics of Corporate Governance

Journal articles · Allen, D. and Berg, C. (2020) · The Journal of the British Blockchain Association
Blockchains and Constitutional Catallaxy

Working papers · Berg, A., Berg, C. and Novak, M. (2018) · Working paper, SSRN
Blockchains as Constitutional Orders

Book chapters · Berg, C., Davidson, S. and Potts, J. (2018) · in Wagner, R.E. (eds) James M. Buchanan: A Theorist of Political Economy and Social Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 383–397
Blockchains and constitutional catallaxy: an EOS case study

Commentary · 5 September 2018 · with Alastair Berg

Media

Blockchain governance and game theoryMint & Burn · 16 May 2022

Treasury management and funding public goodsSCRF Interviews · 10 March 2022

Research frontiers for 2022Mint & Burn · 7 February 2022 Blockchain governance and ethicsMint & Burn · 14 December 2020