Episode 009 - Localized Democracy and Public Goods with Token Engineering, with Jeff Emmett of The Commons Stack / BlockScience Labs

In this episode, Martin & Jahed sit down with Jeff Emmett, who is a prolific researcher at the Commons Stack, Token Engineering Commons, and BlockScience Labs, studying how to build community collaboration tools with blockchains. In the conversation, we cover how new forms of voting mechanisms can help communities make clearer, better decisions, measure and aggregate their own preferences, and execute and measure their impact, so they can ultimately achieve their goals. This episode will be of special interest to people working in impact assessment in NGOs, people building DAO governance tools, and communities looking for new, inclusive forms of democracy to experiment with locally.

Here are the show notes:

• Impact Alpha Bonds
• Rewriting the story of human collaboration
• Challenges and Approaches to Scaling the Global Commons
• Automating Ostrom for Effective DAO Management
• Conviction Voting
• What is the Byzantine Generals Problem?
• Seeing Like a State, by James C. Scott
• Jeff Emmett on Twitter
• Token Engineering Commons
• The Commons Stack