Blockchaingov
= "Blockchaingov is a 5-year long, transdisciplinary research effort aimed at restoring trust in institutions at the community and global levels, by promoting better on chain and off chain distributed governance practices."
URL = https://blockchaingov.eu/
Description
- "We will examine the onchain and offchain governance of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tezos, to provide an empirical overview of the multiple forces that collectively govern these networks.
- With a transdisciplinary approach, we will articulate a set of principles that can support the emergence of distributed governance models, with greater transparency, accountability, representativity and inclusion.
- We will work in collaboration with selected communities to support and guide them in the process of choosing and implementing their own mechanism of distributed governance."
"BlockchainGov will explore how public/permissionless or private/permissioned blockchains can serve as a “regulatory technology”, using technological guarantees to achieve specific regulatory or policy objectives (e.g. promoting more transparency, auditability and accountability).
Blockchain-based mechanisms will be explored as a means to increase confidence in the information system of public or private institutions, with a view to restore confidence and trust in these institutions. We will also investigate new ways of embedding constitutional constraints into the technological fabric of these information systems, to promote a greater degree of compliance between the rule of code and the rule of law. Drawing from the notion of functional equivalence and principle-based regulation, our research team will explore the extent to which the affordances and constraints of these blockchain-based solutions can be regarded as functionally equivalent to the requirements enshrined in existing laws and regulations (e.g. formalities and reporting obligations) and whether this may justify a reduced regulatory burden for those that incorporate these solutions into their information system."