Decentralization Research Center

From Theory to Action: Scaling Data Cooperatives - Project Liberty Between October and December 2024, Project Liberty Institute (PLI) and the Decentralization Research Center (DRC) interviewed 16 experts in data governance, the digital economy, and digital rights, un...

Project Liberty Institute and @thedrc.bsky.social convened 35 key stakeholders at Georgetown University on April 1, 2025, to discuss turning the promises of data cooperatives into actionable models (and more!). Read our takeaways and next steps. www.projectliberty.io/news/from-th...

The 2025 Decentralized Tech Summit kicks off tomorrow, bringing together top minds to shape the future of decentralization.

Expect big ideas, critical discussions, and key insights on how decentralized technology can drive innovation and empower users.

#DecentralizedFuture #DRCSummit2025

Decentralization matters.

It keeps power with users, not corporations — but without clear policies, true decentralization could disappear.

Our latest report explains why policymakers must protect decentralized networks to ensure security and innovation.

Read more: thedrcenter.org/research/

The 2025 Safe Harbor Framework offers a practical solution for crypto regulation.

It balances innovation with investor protection by providing a clear, structured path for blockchain projects.

Read the proposal: members.delphidigital.io/reports/a-pr...

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Decentralization is at a crossroads. Clear rules that distinguish networks are essential for the blockchain industry's future.

Our report highlights how smart policy can protect decentralization while enabling innovation: thedrcenter.org/research/

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One week until the 2025 Decentralized Tech Summit in Washington.

We're excited to welcome leaders, builders, and policymakers, who will spend the day collaborating on the future of decentralization.

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DRC Monthly Update Stay updated on our mission to encourage the equitable ownership, governance, and regulation of emerging technologies that impact our everyday lives.

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How A.I. Tools Could Change India’s Elections Avatars are addressing voters by name, in whichever of India’s many languages they speak. Experts see potential for misuse in a country already rife with disinformation.

7. How AI Tools Could Change India’s Elections

Avatars are addressing voters by name in a country already grappling with disinformation campaigns. Fascinating story by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/w...

Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning crypto project, announces its own blockchain The blockchain will be deeply entwined with the Worldcoin protocol and is aimed at accelerating adoption of World ID.

6. Worldcoin announces its own blockchain

What will this mean for the governance of one of the most controversial identity systems currently in development? Fortune‘s Niamh Rowe reports.

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‎RadicalxChange(s): Matt Prewitt: Lawyer, Writer, & President of RadicalxChange Foundation on Apple Podcasts ‎Show RadicalxChange(s), Ep Matt Prewitt: Lawyer, Writer, & President of RadicalxChange Foundation - Apr 15, 2024

5. Podcast: Matt Prewitt on Partial Common Ownership

In this episode of RadicalxChange(s), Matt discusses how rethinking ownership can lead to a politics of change.

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4. Ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power

The relationship between AI and power structures is covered at length in the new issue of @First Monday. 

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3. Blockchain’s intersection with regulation

SEC Commisioner Hester Peirce joined the DRC to discuss the relationship between industry, regulators, and the public. She also shared what decentralization means to her. 

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EUCI's Updated and Improved Website is Live Our platform is rich with features that break down regulatory and technical jargon into easy-to-consume content.

2. How much do you know about crypto regulation?

A new website with everything on crypto regulation and advocacy, including a dictionary, library and encyclopedia, from the European Crypto Initiative is now live. 

eu.ci/euci-updated...

Rest of World’s 2024 AI elections tracker As more than two billion people vote, we’re monitoring the way AI is being used in political campaigns, memes, and misinformation.

1. Tracking AI misinformation campaigns

Rest of World shares their tracker, covering the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally in 2024 as more than 2 billion people head to the polls.

restofworld.org/2024/electio...

Here's a weekly roundup of the most important and interesting articles and events in the field of governance that impact blockchain and AI (in just 7 stories): ⬇️

There’s no reason to fear open platforms Opinion: A frustrating reality is that the technology is already there to meet people’s needs, but fear and regulation stop progress.

7. Why fear open platforms?

Fear and regulation are hindering the progress of open platforms and their ability to solve challenges, particularly in Africa, a perspective by Denelle Dixon for Blockworks explains

blockworks.co/news/open-te...

Making Decisions About AI — or Anything Accessing information and acting on it via debate maps and decision-making models.

6. How democracies can govern AI

How can you ensure that democracies have the information they need for complex decision making, especially around AI? The Society Library presents their solution.

societylibrary.medium.com/making-decis...

5. Blockchain, Religious Imaginaries, and Theology

In this issue of Zygon, writers explore the unique links between blockchain and theology, with works from Nathan Schneider, David Pucheu, Cassandra Dana, Franck Damour, and Finn Brunton

www.zygonjournal.org/collections/...

Plural Property

4. Plural Property

A portal for papers and projects that discuss a form of ownership with greater equitable properties, presented by RadicalxChange 

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Analysis on ''Correlated Attestation Penalties'' Analysis on ‘‘Correlated Attestation Penalties’’ This is a quick quantitative analysis on anti-correlation penalties looking into its potential impact on staking operators and CL clients. Before getti...

3. How economies of scale affect decentralization

To strengthen decentralization, you must counteract the advantages of economies of scale, as explored in an analysis by Toni Wahrstätter as a response to Vitalik Buterin

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Martin Regg Cohn: From anarchist to defender of democracy: How Taiwan’s digital minister debunked and beat the bots Taiwan’s minister of digital affairs is on the frontlines of cyber warfare, information wars and disinformation disruptions, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

2. Democracy as technology

Audrey Tang goes on the offensive with “democracy as a social technology.” A piece by Martin Regg Cohn for the Toronto Star examines how Taiwan’s digital minister “debunked and beat the bots.”

www.thestar.com/politics/fro...

The U.S. may finally get a federal privacy law to rival Europe’s GDPR Meet APRA, which—if it passes—would be the mythical federal privacy law that Americans want and deserve.

1. American Privacy Rights Act, APRA

What might a GDPR-like data privacy bill look like for the U.S.? A report by David Meyer for Fortune explores a set of rules “way beyond” existing regulation. 

fortune.com/2024/04/08/a...

Here's a weekly roundup of the most important and interesting articles and events in the field of governance that impact blockchain and AI (in just 7 stories): ⬇️

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7. Event, April 8th: Bridging the gap between politicians and innovators

This UK-based event asks how politicians can effectively use innovations in democratic engagement, by Demos

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6. Event, April 4th: A discussion on DUNAs

A discussion around DUNAs and what they mean for decentralized organizations with David Kerr, Michael Jennings, Jordan Teague, and JupiterBlock, hosted by Lex DAO 

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5. What’s next for blockchain?

From AI to supply chains, Mrinal Manohar explores the future of blockchain

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4. How do we democratize the web?

Self-governance, equitable ownership, and updating legacy collaborative efforts with blockchain, explored by Nathan Schneider and Daniel Kuhn in CoinDesk 

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3. Luck and Technology

The fourth issue of Kernel Magazine explores the relationship between technology and chance in a project by the reboot community

www.kernelmag.io