Mechanism Insitute

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About

We are building tools that make mechanism design accessible to all, including a library of mechanism primitives with implementation examples, an AI tool trained on the library, and interactive mechanism modeling tools.

Impact

By making mechanism design easier to do, we hope that this will empower communities, organizations, and entrepreneurs to launch cryptoeconomic interventions that solve pressing coordination problems– from governance and identity to AI and climate.

Progress

So far, we have built out the first version of the library, populating it with ~120 primitives along with a description, implementation examples, and further resources. We also have a working prototype of the AI tool.

Team

I've been designing blockchain-based coordination mechanisms since 2015. I cofounded dOrg, the first service DAO, and also started DAO Drops, a retroactive public goods funding mechanism supported by the Ethereum Foundation.

Funding

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Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/mechanism-insitute
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