Building Blocks
Building Blocks : Cryptoeconomic Primitives and Higher-Level Patterns
Types of blocks (highest level) (one framing)
- Curation: TCRs, Curation Markets, etc
- Proofs of human or machine work
- Identity
- Markets: Prediction Markets, Trading, Bonding Curves, etc
- Micro-Economical: DAOs, Stablecoins, etc
- Consensus: Voting, staking, etc
- Reputation
- Governance / software updates
- Third-party arbitration
- Inter-operability
- «add to me! revise me! :)»
Other Framings
Other ways to frame or group building blocks include: «FIXME: add links to these. The links are here »
- How tokens are distributed. This includes releasing coins for “work”, according to a controlled supply schedule; 100% pre-mining; burn-and-mint; bounty ICOs; and more.
- Ethereum token standards, such as ERC20 fungible token and ERC721 non-fungible token (NFT). Billy Rennekamp’s token lexicon is helpful.
- How tokens are valued. As a means of exchange, store of value, and unit of account, by Chris Burniske. <add to me: others' writings on this>
- How keepers are grouped. For gatekeeping, arbitrage, or resource transaction, by Ryan Zurrer.
- How the compute stack is organized. Processing, storage, etc. This has variants by Fred Ehrsam, Stephan Tual, and Trent McConaghy.
- Level-1, level-2, level-N infrastructure. The core chain is level 1. The higher levels are to help scale without having to reconcile the main chain on every transaction. Link.
- High level overview of multi-token economies, combining FTs, NFTs and Interfaces Designing Multi-Token Economies
Some sources for building blocks
- Some articles in the Reading List
- ERC proposals
- «add to me»
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