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A curated list of resources for understanding and working with Cryptoeconomics
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Articles / Introductory
- Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics
Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics by Josh Stark
- What is Cryptoeconomics
What is Cryptoeconomics, a guide by BlockGeeks
- 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
Articles / Game Theory
- Introduction to Game Theory
Part one of a series by Devin Soni
- Schelling Point
Introduction to the concept of Schelling Point
- The strategy of conflict book
The Strategy of Conflict
- Mechanism design (deck)
Mechanism design theory examples and complexity
- Cryptocurrency Game Theory
What is Cryptocurrency Game Theory: A Basic introduction
- Correlated Equilibria
In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium
- The Art Of Designing Great Incentives
A framework to help community leaders encourage collaboration through Social Tokens
Articles / Mechanism Design
- Mechanism Theory
paper by Matthew O. Jackson
Articles / Cryptographic Primitives
- Cryptographic Primitives
as described in Wikipedia
- A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup
- Merkling in Ethereum
by Vitalik Buterin
- Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
by Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark
Articles / Consensus Mechanisms
- PoW and Blockchains
presentation by Prof. Ittay Eyal (IC3)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Critic on the PoS Philosophy
by Tuur Demeester
- Extended Summary on Casper
by Jon Choi
- 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
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
Articles / Governance
- The Consensus Series, Part I: The Basics of Collectivity
by Aleksandr Bulkin
- Notes on Blockchain Governance
by Vitalik Buterin
- Against On-Chain Governance
by Vlad Zamfir
- On Public vs Private Blockchains
by Vitalik Buterin
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
- 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
- 51% Attack
Bitcoin.it Wiki explanation
- Selfish Mining
a 25% attack against Bitcoin
- Sybil attack
as described in Wikipedia
- $5 wrench Attack
XKCD comic on the cheapest attack on cryptography
- An Exploration of Attack Vectors in Proof-of-Stake
Mechanism Labs
Articles / Token Engineering
- 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
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
- Re-Fungible Token (RFT)
by Billy Rennekamp
Articles / Tokenomics
- Token sales models
Token sales models by Vitalik Buterin
- A business guide to Tokenomics
by William Mougayar
- Cryptoasset Valuations
by Chris Burniske
- 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
- 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
Articles / Stablecoins
- Ethereum Madrid's Cryptoeconomics 101
presentation on Stablecoins by Sandra Becker of Ethereum Madrid
- Designing a price stable currency
by Haseeb Qureshi
Articles / State Channels
- A state-channels adventure with Counterfactual Rick
by SpankChain (SFW!)
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
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
Articles / Regulation
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
Videos / Cryptoeconomics
- Game Theory in Bitcoin
Game Theory approach behind the motivation for Bitcoin mining
- 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
- Towards a Practice of Token Engineering
by Trent McConaghy
- Cryptoeconomic Theory
, , and an on-going series by Viktor Makarskyy
Videos / State Channels
- Short introduction to the The Raiden Network
by Lefteris Karapetsas
- State Channels explained in detail
by Ameen Soleimani
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
- 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
Videos / Cryptography
- Hashed based signatures
An illustrated primer
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
Whitepapers
- 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
- Research Paper on the security model in PoW
by ETH Zurich and others
- Research Paper on eclipse attacks
on the Bitcoin Network
- Research Paper on eclipse attacks
on the Ethereum Network
- 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
Ethereum Whitepaper
Crypto-Economics of the Nervos Common Knowledge BaseOther Resources
- Evolution of Trust
fun interactive game by Nicky Case showing the evolution of group trust over time
- 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
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
Blockchain Hacks and Post-mortems / Parity MultiSig
Blockchain Hacks and Post-mortems / Bancor
Blockchain Hacks and Post-mortems / King of Ether
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
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