An AI-Managed DAO — TL;DR AI as an impartial unincentivized incentivizer runs an autonomous organization using human guidance and feedback Abstract We present the Coordination Network, an innovative, AI-powered solution developed to tackle prominent coordination challenges. Noting the limitations in contemporary programmable decentralized coordination systems like Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), we propose an AI-driven network…

Less than a month ago, I wrote about how people would fall in love, get married, and form deep friendships with artificial intelligence (AI), especially with LLM. I predicted it would happen within a year, but as always with AI, it happened much faster than expected. Today, it has become…

Zero-knowledge — это набор криптографических инструментов, которые позволяют доказать что я знаю некоторый факт, не сообщая вам сам факт. Примерами zk-инструментов являются цифровые подписи (я знаю приватный ключ, могу это доказать, но не сообщу его вам) или хеш-функции (я знаю preimage). …

Below is a one-page summary of my work over the last 5 years An economy requires trust to operate effectively. Trust between countries, banks, companies, people and even two IoT devices or smart contracts. Historically, trust is provided either by the state (healthcare, legal, education systems) or platforms (Uber, Airbnb…

Decentralized reputation is a necessary component for truly decentralized social institutions. It allows us to programmatically negotiate social trust and reduce transaction costs in the economy. Below is my attempt to define 10 principles of the digital trust system. Subjective. Any reputation is a reflection of social weight and the…

Let’s take a look at another ten of the most interesting and promising (> $ 10B TAM) use cases for SSI / decentralized identity. Decentralized social graph Imagine that all your friends, subscriptions, followers and contacts are stored not on the telegram, facebook and twitter server, but on the blockchain…

The more I read the criticism of soulbound tokens, the more I am convinced that this is just the right extension to the SSI that will enable decentralized reputation for people, organizations and things. Let’s explore how SSI & SBT work together. I want to dig into some of arguments…

How can we solve professional credentialing for web3? — Earlier this week, 20+ experts from various backgrounds, with many of them being founders of identity/reputation applications and protocols, but also experts from standards bodies and educational movements, came together to exchange on the future of work and learning. During a two-hour workshop, we have exchanged the vision of where…

It’s not the technology that wins, it’s the business models. But business models emerge and scale with the technology. Web3 scales to billions of users (and will do it very quickly) precisely because of the uniqueness of the business model, which became possible thanks to blockchain, open-source business models, and…