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»