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CommunityRule and
Modpol Projects
with Professor Nathan Schneider

In 2021, SCRF provided a grant to CommunityRule, an open-source Web app led by MEDLab at CU Boulder, creating an interface for community governance design. The SCRF-funded project enabled important advances, including refactoring the application code, moving the DB, and redesigning the interface. These changes bring the project closer to the goal of connecting a visual design interface with programmable governance software.

Web3 Conference
Workshop 2022

SCRF was delighted to sponsor The Researching Web3 Workshop. It is the first scholarly conference dedicated to exploring Web3. This field-defining workshop brings together scholars from across academia to generate new research questions, learn about new and emerging technologies, and coordinate communities of practice.

DeSci Day
EthAmsterdam 2022

SCRF was the lead organizer of DeSci Day at ETH Amsterdam. The event included talks, panels, pitches, and demos from projects and leaders in the DeSci space. This was the first in-person conference exploring the intersection of web3 technology and the sciences since the Blockchain for Science conference in 2018.

SmartCon
Summit 2021

SCRF helped to organize five web3 panels for SmartCon Summit 2021 across Governance, Privacy, Reputation, and CBDCs. At this Chainlink conference, we had Professors from UI, UC, RMIT, UCDavis, CMU and Industry experts from DAO Research Cooperative, Gitcoin, Metagov, Block Science, AZTEC Protocol, and Matter Labs. The venue helped us bring experts together to explore web research questions.

Culture in Decentralized Organizations
with Professor Seth Frey

Smart contracts change how we build groups. The benefits can scale across the formal side of an organization with processes, decisions, and ownership and the informal side with culture, trust, norms, and shared identity. How and why is the informal side worth exploring? Seth Frey's "Culture building in decentralized organizations" answers this question by translating decades of insights from traditional company culture to the decentralized context.

Open Database for
Governance Models
with Metagov

SCRF is thrilled to sponsor Metagov's Govbase project, which creates an open database of projects, tools, and case studies in online governance. It is used to ground several research projects at Metagov. One is the repository for the Constitutions of Web 3 project, which analyzed the constitutions of over 20 DAOs and produced a set of guidelines to shape the writing of new constitutions at Aragon, DAO DAO, and Sifchain. Another is to host the data for the recent Telescope / Metaethnography project published at Qualitative Inquiry.