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A curated list of resources for understanding and working with Cryptoeconomics
An awesome curated list of Cryptoeconomic research and learning materials
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Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Introductory | |||
| Cryptoeconomics for dummies | |||
| Cryptoeconomics 101 | |||
| Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics | Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics by Josh Stark | ||
| What is Cryptoeconomics | What is Cryptoeconomics, a guide by BlockGeeks | ||
| How Society Will Be Transformed By Cryptoeconomics | |||
| Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology | |||
| Vivek Singh's Cryptoeconomics in context | |||
| The Blockchain Economy: A beginner’s guide to institutional cryptoeconomics | by RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub | ||
| Cryptoeconomics is Hard Part 1 | , and by Aleksandr Bulkin | ||
| Behavioural Crypto-Economics | the challenge and promise of Blockchain Incentive Design by Elad Verbin | ||
| Introduction to Blockchain through Cryptoeconomics | by Zubin Koticha | ||
| The need for an Incentive scheme in Algorand | by Alexis Guaba, Zubin Koticha | ||
| Cryptoeconomics.study | A free and open source book & course on Cryptoeconomics | ||
| Tokenomics | An introduction to token economics | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Game Theory | |||
| Introduction to Game Theory | Part one of a series by Devin Soni | ||
| Schelling Point | Introduction to the concept of Schelling Point | ||
| Nash Equilibria and Schelling Points | |||
| The strategy of conflict book | The Strategy of Conflict | ||
| Mechanism design (deck) | Mechanism design theory examples and complexity | ||
| Standford's Algorithmic Game Theory lecture series | |||
| Cryptocurrency Game Theory | What is Cryptocurrency Game Theory: A Basic introduction | ||
| Correlated Equilibria | In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium | ||
| Incentives structures | |||
| The Art Of Designing Great Incentives | A framework to help community leaders encourage collaboration through Social Tokens | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Mechanism Design | |||
| A Crash Course in Mechanism Design for Cryptoeconomic Applications | |||
| Mechanism Theory | paper by Matthew O. Jackson | ||
| Mechanism Design Theory | |||
| Mechanism Design and Approximation | |||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Cryptographic Primitives | |||
| Cryptographic Primitives | as described in Wikipedia | ||
| A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography | by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup | ||
| Ethereum: Signing and Validating | |||
| Merkling in Ethereum | by Vitalik Buterin | ||
| Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree | by Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Consensus Mechanisms | |||
| PoW and Blockchains | presentation by Prof. Ittay Eyal (IC3) | ||
| An Economic Analysis of Difficulty Adjustment Algorithms in PoW Blockchain Systems | by Noda et al | ||
| The PoW concept | article by the Nakamoto Institute | ||
| ConsensusPedia - An Encylopedia of 29 consensus algorithms | article by Vasa | ||
| Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake | by BlockGeeks | ||
| Vulnerability: Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake | |||
| Strengths and Weaknesses of PoS | Vitalik Buterin's article on the strengths and weaknesses of staking contrasting to PoW algorithms | ||
| PoS Design Philosophy | A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy by Vitalik Buterin | ||
| Ethereum PoS | |||
| The evolution of PoS | Article on the evolution of PoS by Coin Telegraph | ||
| Weak Subjectivity in PoS | Weak Subjectivity in PoS by Vitalik Buterin | ||
| The History of Casper - Chapter 1 | , , , , Vlad Zamfir's series on the history of Casper | ||
| On Stake and Consensus | |||
| Critic on the PoS Philosophy | by Tuur Demeester | ||
| Extended Summary on Casper | by Jon Choi | ||
| The Economics of the PoS consensus algorithm | |||
| Casper vs Tendermint | |||
| Minimal Slashing condition in Ethereum | |||
| DPoS Introduction | Introduction to DPoS by Bitshares | ||
| DPoS vs PoW | Article by Daniel Larimer from Bitshares | ||
| Tendermint BFT vs. EOS dPoS | by Tendermint | ||
| Seeking Consensus on Consensus | Delegated Proof of Stake and the Two Generals' Problem | ||
| Byzantine Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems | by Prof. Kenneth Goodwin | ||
| dBFT vs PoW and PoS | Antshare's (now NEO) views on consensus | ||
| Intro to Ethermint BFT | |||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Network Effects | |||
| A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits | by Vitalik Buterin | ||
| Continuous Token Models: Towards a Million Networks of Value | by Simon de la Rouviere | ||
| Crypto Tokens: A breakthrough in open network design | by Chris Dixon | ||
| Bitcoin Network Effects | |||
| Keepers — Workers that Maintain Blockchain Networks | |||
| Smart Contract Network Effect Fallacy | |||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Governance | |||
| The Consensus Series, Part I: The Basics of Collectivity | by Aleksandr Bulkin | ||
| Governance and Network Effects | |||
| Notes on Blockchain Governance | by Vitalik Buterin | ||
| Against On-Chain Governance | by Vlad Zamfir | ||
| On Public vs Private Blockchains | by Vitalik Buterin | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Cryptoeconomic Security | |||
| Intro to Cryptoeconomic security | Basic intro to cryptoeconomic security | ||
| Anti-fragile Cryptoeconomic systems | Anti-fragile cryptoeconomic Systems through game theory | ||
| Triangle of harm | by Vitalik Buterin | ||
| On Inflation, Transaction Fees and Cryptocurrency Monetary Policy | Vitalik Buterin's article on the role of cryptoeconomics in blockchain security | ||
| Settlement Finality | Vitalik Buterin's article on the elusive topic of economic finality | ||
| Bancor is flawed | Bancor's review by Hacking Distributed | ||
| To sink front-runners, send submarines | Bancor's front-running woes by Hacking Distributed | ||
| Bitcoin's security model | by Jameson Lopp | ||
| General article on how attacks work in PoW - Part 1 | and | ||
| Long range attacks | |||
| Censorship attacks | |||
| P + epsilon attack | |||
| Coordination problems | |||
| The Miners dilemma | |||
| Dealing with failure in cryptocurrency | Vlad Zamfir's article on dealing with failure in cryptocurrency | ||
| Model of an internal PoW attacker | Vlad Zamfir's article on PoW attackers | ||
| Cryptoeconomics and X-Risk researchers should listen to each other more | Vitalik Buterin's article on how cryptoeconomics and existential risk researchers could apply blockchain technology in global coordination challenges | ||
| Presentation on most common attacks in Bitcoin | |||
| 51% Attack | Bitcoin.it Wiki explanation | ||
| Selfish Mining | a 25% attack against Bitcoin | ||
| Sybil attack | as described in Wikipedia | ||
| Nothing at Stake and Long-range attacks in PoS | |||
| $5 wrench Attack | XKCD comic on the cheapest attack on cryptography | ||
| An Exploration of Attack Vectors in Proof-of-Stake | Mechanism Labs | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Token Engineering | |||
| The Emergence of Cryptoeconomic Primitives | |||
| History Is Rhyming: Fitness Functions & Comparing Blockchain Tokens To The Web | by Simon de la Rouviere | ||
| Introducing Curation Markets: Trade Popularity of Memes & Information | by Simon de la Rouviere | ||
| Can Blockchains Go Rogue? | by Trent McConaghy | ||
| Towards a Practice of Token Engineering | , with presentation deck by Trent McConaghy | ||
| Token Engineering Case Studies | Analysis of Bitcoin, Design of Ocean Protocol by Trent McConaghy | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Cryptoeconomic Primitives | |||
| The Emergence of Cryptoeconomic Primitives | by Jacob Horne | ||
| Token Curated Registries 1.0 | by Mike Goldin | ||
| Continuous Token-Curated Registries: The Infinity of Lists | by Simon de la Rouviere | ||
| Tokens 2.0: Curved Token Bonding in Curation Markets | by Simon de la Rouviere | ||
| Solving Price Discovery Of Non-Rivalrous Goods (with Curved Bonding) | by Simon de la Rouviere | ||
| Hashtag Markets | by Simon de la Rouviere | ||
| How to Make Bonding Curves for Continuous Token Models | |||
| Re-Fungible Token (RFT) | by Billy Rennekamp | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Tokenomics | |||
| Token sales models | Token sales models by Vitalik Buterin | ||
| A business guide to Tokenomics | by William Mougayar | ||
| Cryptoasset Valuations | by Chris Burniske | ||
| Understanding Token Velocity | |||
| On Value, Velocity and Monetary Theory | |||
| The Token Classification Framework | a multi-dimensional tool for understanding and classifying crypto tokens | ||
| MV = PQ isn't right for crypto | a case made by Austere Capital | ||
| The quantitative theory of money for tokens | a rebuttal of the MV = PQ theory by Warren Weber | ||
| NVT - network value to transactions ratio | a market to transaction value proposal by Coinmetrics | ||
| New Models For Utility Tokens | by Kyle Samani | ||
| Understanding Token Economics | A study of economic models and token distributions in the cryptocurrency market | ||
| The Pillars of Tokenomics | The ve Token Model | ||
| All You Need to Know About Tokenomics | |||
| Designing Token Economies | |||
| Tokenomics 101 | The Basics of Evaluating Cryptocurrencies | ||
| Tokenomics 102 | Digging Deeper on Supply | ||
| Tokenomics 103 | Evaluating Token Utility | ||
| Tokenomics 104 | How to Launch a Token | ||
| Social Token | Three things Creators need to know before making a Social Token for their community | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Stablecoins | |||
| Ethereum Madrid's Cryptoeconomics 101 | presentation on Stablecoins by Sandra Becker of Ethereum Madrid | ||
| An Overview of stablecoins | |||
| Stablecoins: A Holy Grail in digital cryptocurrencies | |||
| Volatility and Mass Adoption: 2 reasons we would benefit from a stablecoin | |||
| The search for a stable cryptocurrency | |||
| Maker for Dummies: A Plain English Explanation of the Dai Stablecoin | |||
| Designing a price stable currency | by Haseeb Qureshi | ||
| A skeptic view of stablecoins | |||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / State Channels | |||
| Compact and very well explained definition | |||
| Overview on the Raiden Network | |||
| Generalised State Channels on Ethereum | |||
| Introducing multi-party state-channels | |||
| A state-channels adventure with Counterfactual Rick | by SpankChain (SFW!) | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Empirical Cryptoeconomics | |||
| How manipulation-resistant are Prediction Markets? | How manipulation-resistant are Prediction Markets? Our Undertaking in Empirical Cryptoeconomics by Gnosis | ||
| Empirical Cryptoeconomics | Vitalik Buterin's post on empirical cryptoeconomics | ||
| Testing mechanism design with AI agents | Tool for Smart Contract testing with and | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Case studies | |||
| Tokenomics 101 | by Tokenomics DAO | ||
| Olympus DAO | by Nat Eliason | ||
| Alchemix | The Mind-Bending Magic of Self-Paying Loans | ||
| The Curve Wars | DeFi’s Fight for Liquidity | ||
| StepN | Will STEPN Bring Crypto to the Masses? | ||
| Crypto Raiders | Crypto Raiders Tokenomics and Economy Launch Plan | ||
| EigenLayer | Restaking Effect on Ethereum's Security and Rewarding Mechanisms | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Articles / Regulation | |||
| Considerations for Regulating Crypto | |||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Videos / Consensus Protocols | |||
| Consensus Algorithms | Andreas Antonopoulos | ||
| Intro to Casper | Karl Floersch presenting Ethereum's Casper PoS | ||
| PoS roundtable | PoS roundtable with Joseph Poon, Vitalik Buterin, Vlad Zamfir, Dominic Williams, Zack Hess at Cryptoeconomicon 2015 | ||
| PoW roundtable | PoW roundtable with Tim Swanson, Vitalik Buterin and Peter Todd at Cryptoeconomicon 2015 | ||
| Proof of Stake - Technion Cyber and Computer Security Summer School | and | ||
| CESC2017 - Casper Proof of Stake | |||
| Hangout - Ethereum PoS: Casper FFG In Depth | and the | ||
| Hangout - Ethereum PoS: Casper & Smart Contract Consensus Overview | and the | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Videos / Cryptoeconomics | |||
| Game Theory in Bitcoin | Game Theory approach behind the motivation for Bitcoin mining | ||
| CESC2017 - Cryptoeconomics in Casper | |||
| What is Cryptoeconomics | Vlad Zamfir introducing Cryptoeconomics | ||
| Introduction to Cryptoeconomics | Vitalik Buterin introducing Cryptoeconomics. The corresponding presentation deck is | ||
| Hard problems in Cryptoeconomics | Vitalik Buterin discussing hard problems with cryptoeconomics | ||
| The Cryptoeconomic way | Vitalik Buterin discussing cryptoeconomics | ||
| Cryptoeconomic Protocols In the Context of Wider Society | Vitalik Buterin discussing cryptoeconomics. The corresponding presentation deck is | ||
| The current state of Cryptoeconomics | The current state of Cryptoeconomics by Vlad Zamfir | ||
| Programmable Incentives | by Karl Floersch at Devcon 3 | ||
| Hard problems in cryptoeconomics | by Vitalik Buterin | ||
| Cryptoeconomic Primitives | |||
| Global Scale Research Networks and Cryptoeconomics | |||
| Towards a Practice of Token Engineering | by Trent McConaghy | ||
| Cryptoeconomic Theory | , , and an on-going series by Viktor Makarskyy | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Videos / State Channels | |||
| The Raiden Network, a technical introduction | |||
| Short introduction to the The Raiden Network | by Lefteris Karapetsas | ||
| State Channels explained in detail | by Ameen Soleimani | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Videos / Cryptoeconomic Security | |||
| The costs of hacking Bitcoin | Sybil attacks explained | ||
| Game theory and Network Attacks- How to destroy Bitcoin | by by Max Fang 03/2017 | ||
| Game theory and Network Attacks- How to destroy Bitcoin | by Nadir Akhtar and Aparna Krishnan 11/2017 | ||
| 51% Attacks: Pools and Game Theory | |||
| Nothing at stake | Introducing the nothing at stake attack | ||
| Security Considerations of the Casper Protocol | Vlad Zamfir at Standford's Blockchain Protocol Analysis and Security Engineering 2017 | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Videos / Cryptography | |||
| Cryptography for Cryptocurrency | |||
| Bitcoin - Cryptographic hash functions | |||
| Hashed based signatures | An illustrated primer | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Podcasts | |||
| Q&A on Casper | Vlad Zamfir answering questions regarding Ethereum's Casper PoS | ||
| PoW attacks | Podcast from 2015 on PoW attacks | ||
| Cryptoeconomics, Stablecoins, Casper | with Vlad Zamfir, and corresponding transcript is available | ||
| Fintech Podcast - Episode 151 | Cryptoeconomics as explained by Dr Chris Berg | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Whitepapers | |||
| Bitcoin Whitepaper | |||
| Ethereum Whitepaper | 14,742 | about 4 years ago | |
| Blockchain Consensus Protocols in the Wild | |||
| dBFT Whitepaper | The Quest for Scalable Blockchain Fabric: Proof-of-Work vs. BFT Replication by IBM Research | ||
| Federated Byzantine Agreements | by Stellar Development Foundation's David Mazieres | ||
| Research Paper on PoS vs. Pow | by Bitfury | ||
| Demystifying Incentives in the Consensus Computer | |||
| Game Theory approach behind Bitcoin mining | |||
| Research Paper on the security model in PoW | by ETH Zurich and others | ||
| A Note on Limits on Incentive Compatibility and Griefing Factors | |||
| Research Paper on eclipse attacks | on the Bitcoin Network | ||
| Research Paper on eclipse attacks | on the Ethereum Network | ||
| Research paper on hashrate-based double spend attack | |||
| Satoshi Risk Tables | |||
| MakerDAO Purple Paper | |||
| Sweetbridge Liquidity Protocol | |||
| Bancor Protocol | |||
| Maker Dai Stablecoin | |||
| Curation Markets | by Simon de la Rouviere | ||
| The Economics of BitCoin Price Formation | This paper analyses the relationship between Bitcoin price and supply-demand fundamentals of Bitcoin | ||
| A Cost of Production Model for Bitcoin | |||
| The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol Analysis and Applications | |||
| Cryptocurrencies without PoW | |||
| Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain | |||
| Crypto-Economics of the Nervos Common Knowledge Base | 269 | almost 2 years ago | |
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Other Resources | |||
| Evolution of Trust | fun interactive game by Nicky Case showing the evolution of group trust over time | ||
| Ethresear.ch Casper research topic | |||
| CECS - CryptoEconomics Security Conference | |||
| Reddit subgroup | |||
| Telegram Group | |||
| RIAT - Institute for Future Cryptoeconomics | a research group from Austria | ||
| Cryptoeconomics Asia | is an independent research firm | ||
| Cryptoeconomics at RMIT University | a research group of economists in Australia | ||
| Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics | Vienna University of Economics and Business | ||
| MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab | MIT's first cryptoeconomics lab | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Blockchain Hacks and Post-mortems / The DAO | |||
| The DAO can turn into a naturally arising Ponzi | prescient article by Hacking Distributed | ||
| Analysis of the DAO Exploit | by Hacking Distributed | ||
| Thoughts on the DAO hack | by Hacking Distributed | ||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Blockchain Hacks and Post-mortems / Parity MultiSig | |||
| Parity's Post-mortem | |||
| Deep dive into the Parity hack | |||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Blockchain Hacks and Post-mortems / Bancor | |||
| Front-running Bancor in 150 lines of Python | |||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Blockchain Hacks and Post-mortems / King of Ether | |||
| King of Ether Post-mortem | |||
Awesome Cryptoeconomics / Blockchain Hacks and Post-mortems / Roulette | |||
| Attacking a public RNG | article by Martin Swende on attacking a smart contract that used a public Random Number Generator | ||
Additional information and related topics / Behavioural Economics | |||
| BE Ted Talk | Prof. Dan Ariely's Ted Talk on Behavioural Economics | ||
| Predictably Irrational book | Predictably Irrational by Prof. Dan Ariely | ||
| The Honest Truth About Dishonesty book | The Honest Truth About Dishonesty by Prof. Dan Ariely | ||
Additional information and related topics / Economics | |||
| Awesome Economics | 1,341 | about 3 years ago | |
Additional information and related topics / Cryptography | |||
| Awesome Cryptography | 5,957 | almost 2 years ago | |
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