Selected RFP:

Programmable Institutional Design and Verifiable Governance

This RFP seeks research on new forms of institutional and organizational design enabled by programmable, verifiable infrastructure. Blockchains expand the design space for institutions by allowing designers to precisely specify what rules are immutable, what is adjustable, and who has authority to make changes - in ways that are difficult or impossible to achieve with traditional legal, corporate, or platform-based systems. We are interested in how programmable systems enable predictable, enforceable, and selectively controllable governance structures, and what this implies for firms, collectives, and public institutions.