Welcome to the CryptoEconLab public repository. Here you will be able to learn about and contribute to our Open Problems, RFPs, and Research Projects, as well as keep tabs on what we're planning for the future. You can also follow our work on our Protocol Labs Research webpage and the PL Research blog by subscribing to the PL Research newsletter.
Cryptoeconomics is an emerging field of economic coordination games in cryptographically secured peer-to-peer networks. As an interdisciplinary study, cryptoeconomics involves a constellation of knowledge including computer science, network science, statistics,psychology, decision neuroscience, economics, and system engineering. In an increasingly networked and open world, cryptoeconomics will play a bigger role in coordinating human and machine activities and building a better future.
CryptoEconLab at PL aspires to become a hub for research on economic incentives, coordination games, and novel marketplaces. We aim to develop capacity to design, validate, deploy, and govern large-scale economic systems. CryptoEconLab strives to empower projects in the ecosystem through novel incentives and advance humanity’s understanding of multiagent systems and algorithmic steering of economic networks.
The lab’s genesis comes from a growing need to enable the design and deployment of large-scale economic systems, from token networks to the Metaverse. CryptoEconLab is designed to take ownership of the economic aspects of a technosocial system including design, specification, validation, deployment, and governance.
Please join the discussion to learn how you can work with us!
CryptoEconLab’s current foci are:
- Formation, diffusion, and learning in networks
- Stochastic optimal control for evolutionary systems
- Evolutionary game theory, population games, state based potential games
- Optimal pricing and resource allocation in distributed networks
- Value attribution and graph-based algorithms
- Market design, algorithmic game theory & differential privacy
- Prediction markets, automated market makers, reputation systems
- Institutional economics and governance
We welcome discussion of our current Open Problems on our github discussion page. Please join us in exploring the future of cryptoeconomics by contributing to the solution of current problems and posing new ones!
| Research Area | Open Problem(s) | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| General Incentive Research | Incentivized Network Formation | General problems related to incentivizing behavior in cryptoeconomic networks |
| Truthful Games for Incentives under Unreliable Signals | ||
| Value Attribution in a Network of Contributions |
As we develop and post RFPs, they will be posted in this github repo.
We are very interested in forming collaborations with researchers and engineers working in our fields of interest, and we offer several grants and research fellowships to support these working relationships. Please check out the PL Research website for further details and application instructions.
Please join us for discussion an anything in the CryptoEconLab extended universe on our discussion forum
You can vew our current slate of publications, talks, and other resources on our lab webpage.
- Zixuan (ZX) Zhang
- Alex Terrazas
- Axel Cortés Cubero
- Tom Mellan
We are working to expand the team -- if you're a scientist or engineer interested in cryptoeconomics research, visit PL's jobs page to learn more and apply!
You can reach out to us anytime with your questions and interest in these projects by emailing [email protected]