Research

Beyond running itself, TEC invested in research, both into its own mechanisms and into the broader discipline of token engineering. This reflected its mission to advance robust, ethical design of tokenized infrastructure. This section indexes the research record.

Research initiatives

• WG 0mega (Omega) — a research-oriented working group oriented toward computer-aided governance. The source material includes its manifesto, weekly agendas, and a substantial body of research-methods work.
• TE Ethics Participatory Research — a participatory research initiative on the ethics of token engineering.
• TE Consilience Project — work toward a consilience library / shared knowledge base for the field.
• Transparency in DAOs — research on transparency practices in decentralized organizations (connected to the Transparency WG).
• Bonding Curve Research Group (2023) — turned TEC’s own Augmented Bonding Curve into a research object, preserving lessons from the experiment. See Economics and Token Design.

Studies and data

The technical archive also contains research-grade datasets and studies, including a Stakeholder Study, an Impact Hours intervention study, and a TEC census. See Code and Technical Artifacts.

Externally funded research and public goods

As a public goods funder, TEC supported external token-engineering research and infrastructure, which included NumFOCUS, cadCAD, Proof of Competence, and educational collaborations with the Token Engineering Academy. See the Timeline for when these occurred.

Research reports and methods documents are being progressively published here in redacted form.