Learn

• Cryptoeconomics for dummies
• Cryptoeconomics 101
• Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics by Josh Stark
• 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
• Cryptoeconomics Definitions Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
• The Blockchain Economy: A beginner’s guide to institutional cryptoeconomics by RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub
• Cryptoeconomics is Hard Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 by Aleksandr Bulkin
• How to create a cryptoeconomic protocol from scratch by Vlad Zamfir
• Behavioural Crypto-Economics the challenge and promise of Blockchain Incentive Design by Elab Verbin

• 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
• 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

• A Crash Course in Mechanism Design for Cryptoeconomic Applications
• Mechanism Theory paper by Matthew O. Jackson
• Mechanism Design Theory

• 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

POW – PROOF OF WORK

• PoW and Blockchains presentation by Prof. Ittay Eyal (IC3)
• The PoW concept article by the Nakamoto Institute
• Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake by BlockGeeks
• Vulnerability: Proof of Work vs. Proof of Stake

POS – 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 FAQ
• 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, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5
• 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 – DELEGATED PROOF OF STAKE

• 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

DBFT – DELEGATED BYZANTINE FAULT TOLERANCE

• 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

• 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

• The Consensus Series, Part I: The Basics of Collectivity and Addendum by Aleksandr Bulkin
• Governance and Network Effects
• Notes on Blockchain Governance by Vitalik Buterin
• Against On-Chain Governance by Vlad Zamfir

• • 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

ATTACKS

• • General article on how attacks work in PoW – Part 1 and Part 2
  • 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 Part 2
  • 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

• 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 here by Trent McConaghy
• Token Engineering Case Studies Analysis of Bitcoin, Design of Ocean Protocol by Trent McConaghy

• 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

• Token sales models Token sales models by Vitalik Buterin
• A business guide to Tokenomics by William Mougayar
• Cryptoasset Valuations by Chris Burniske
• Justified Token Value by Adrian Jonklaas
• 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

• 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
• An Experiment with Sai, a simple stablecoin by MakedDAO
• Maker for Dummies: A Plain English Explanation of the Dai Stablecoin
• Designing a price stable currency by Haseeb Qureshi
• A skeptic view of stablecoins

• 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!)

• 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 concept paper and intro