0xSplits
Streamline onchain payments and revenue splits from NFT sales, manage expenses and taxes.
ABC RECORDS
A digital marketplace that lets anyone purchase digital music sources from the original creators directly via an NFT.
GenCloth
Integrate data early to optimize fashion/textile design for multiple goals.
Headless Brands
Networked media challenges traditional corporate brand planning and design coherence.
Hyperstructures
Run indefinitely for free without maintenance, offering unstoppable and expansive service.
On Smart Contracts as a Medium
Analyzes art's existence outside traditional gallery contexts.
Proof of Humanity
Sybil-proof Verification which combines social and video verification for a reliable human list.
Proof of Location
FOAM provides the tools to enable a crowdsourced map and decentralized location services.
Universal Data License
Permits creators and developers to monetize and license content on the permaweb.
Disassembling the Trust Machine (Brekke, 2019)
Blockchain technology is, in part, a proposal to resolve "the political" through technical means: decentralised networks to solve the problem of authority; cryptography to coordinate and secure the network; and game theory and incentive design to solve network behaviour.
This thesis asks what matters politically in blockchain technology - both in the sense of matter as becoming material of a new mediation of the political, and mattering in the sense of being of political importance to engineers, developers, and communities forming around blockchain as a potential.
Rather than treating blockchain as a coherent object to celebrate or criticise, the work draws out how its potentials are negotiated as part of its political effects. Through Bitcoin and Ethereum case studies, it introduces three approaches to the political: the insensible, the sensible, and the dissensible.
It argues that blockchain's political significance extends beyond financial capitalism and should be understood as an ongoing negotiation of incompatible sensibilities, not as a final technical resolution to political questions.
Source PDF:
Durham University Repository
Mirror PDF:
permet.co copy
Arweave:
https://arweave.net/ (pending transaction)
