Articles + Appearances

AI & Democracy’s Digital Identity Crisis (Stanford Center for Cyber Policy)

By understanding how identity attestations are positioned across the spectrum of decentralization, we can better grasp their costs/benefits. Improving and integrating them into our interactions with the digital sphere will help protect democratic systems from AI-generated harm… See More

Toward Equitable Ownership and Governance in the Digital Public Sphere (Harvard Kennedy School)

This paper explores how newly developed DAO tooling could help co-ops compete in the online economy. Specifically, we outline how DAO tooling could provide co-ops with effective voting, increased member engagement, predictable compensation/patronage, organizational transparency, member accountability, and improved capital formation… See More

Harvard Summit on Equitable Ownership (Harvard Kennedy School)

Recording of the Harvard Summit on Equitable Ownership, which I co-hosted with the Harvard Belfer Center and the Harvard Safra Center for Ethics… See More

A Primer on the DAO Research Collective (Law of Code)

Law of Code podcast episode on the goals and activities of the DAO Research Collective… See More

US Government Must Embrace Stablecoins to Maintain Dollar Dominance (TechCrunch)

Stablecoin have the potential to cement USD dominance worldwide but that potential will only be realized if policymakers and regulators must take a measured approach to regulation… See More

Scaling DAOs Faster With Collective R&D (ETHOnline 2021)

My presentation on the biggest challenges DAOs face and how they can be tackled more efficiently through collective R&D at the Ethereum Foundation’s biggest annual event… See More

Scaling DAOs Won’t Be Easy: Five Major Challenges to Overcome (The Defiant)

We gathered together some of the leading DAO founders, operators, and investors at the DAO Summit. We then separately interviewed more than 20 other brilliant DAO stakeholders, and asked them what they needed most. And here it is: a list of five of the most pressing questions for DAOs… Read More or TLDR

DAO Summit (Stanford + Bankless)

I organized a Virtual DAO Summit for leaders in crypto to identify the most pressing issues for DAOs and strategies for resolving those issues. I partnered with the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, the Ethereum Foundation, and Bankless for the event… See More

Leadership in the Ownership Economy (Variant)

A number of founding teams have felt compelled to step back from their projects at the time of token launch to reduce the risk that their tokens will be deemed securities. An alternative path may allow founders to stay involved confidently: empowering their organizations to mirror the democratic structure of member-owned cooperatives… Read More

Innovation and Regulation of Blockchain (Bloomberg)

Interviewed on Bloomberg’s The Open to discuss blockchain regulation and the formation of the Blockchain Association… See More