Cryptoeconomics is a design-paradigm that is used, among other things, for the protocol layer of almost all currently existing blockchains. It is intended to generate security guarantees for the reliable execution of these protocols by combining economic incentives/penalties (-economics) with applied computer science (crypto-). Apart from this specific use case in distributed, “decentralized” networks, cryptoeconomic design principles are being promoted by some to be an adequate way of “designing” social interactions and institutions in areas not related to questions of network security.

The panelists are:

• Dr. Jaya Klara Brekke – Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Geography, Durham University
• Dr. Benjamin Seibel – Director of the Ideation & Prototyping Lab at the Technologiestiftung Berlin and author of “Cybernetic Government”
• Martin Köppelmann – Co-founder and CEO of Gnosis
• Jan Groos – Doctoral Researcher, Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute (FG 17), Host of Future Histories Podcast

Open discussion with the audience is very much welcome and there will be plenty of time to do so.