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CryptoEconLab
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, 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.
Mission & Vision
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.
Motivation & Description
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.
Research Endeavours
- 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
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Publications
Engineering Filecoin’s economy
As a novel data storage and distribution network, the Filecoin Network’s mission is to create a decentralized, efficient, and robust foundation for humanity’s information. This mission will be advanced by incentivizing consistent growth and development of the Filecoin Network’s economy.
On modeling blockchain-enabled economic networks as stochastic dynamical systems
Blockchain networks have attracted tremendous attention for creating cryptocurrencies and decentralized economies built on peer-to-peer protocols. However, the complex nature of the dynamics and feedback mechanisms within these economic networks has rendered it difficult to reason about the growth and evolution of these networks.
Talks
HyperDrive deep dive
2021-08-02
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Protocol Labs: First principles thinking - history of finance & Filecoin
2021-08-02
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More than just storage: Business opportunities on Filecoin
2021-05-28
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Filecoin Circulating Supply
2020-12-17
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Filecoin Economy Deep Dive
2020-12-17
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A Technical Dive Into Filecoin’s Tokeneconomics
2020-12-17
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The Filecoin Storage Economy
2020-10-22
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Blog
Protocol Labs research funding recipients 2022
2022-08-26
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New research opportunities from CryptoEconLab
2022-03-30
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Meet Alex Terrazas, CryptoEconLab TPM
2022-03-07
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Tom Mellan joins CryptoEconLab as a Research Scientist
2022-02-17
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Open problems in incentive research
2022-01-19
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Axel Cortés Cubero joins CryptoEconLab
2022-01-14
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We're hiring!
2021-05-13
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Introducing the Filecoin Economy
2020-08-27
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