Knowledge Base
Beyond its governance and code, the TEC produced a substantial body of public knowledge via essays, research, explainers, and recorded talks that advanced token engineering as a field and documented the community’s own thinking. Much of this lived on Medium and YouTube, outside the platforms captured elsewhere in this archive. This page aggregates that published output, together with a selection of closely related work.
The items below are external links provided for reference; they were not part of the archive’s data exports. For knowledge captured within the archive itself, see also Research, Code and Technical Artifacts, and the Governance section’s source documents.
Token Engineering Commons — writing
Articles published through the TEC’s Medium publication and by community authors:
- Token Engineering in Our Heritage: What We Can Learn from Ancient and Modern Indigenous Cultures
- Towards Robust and Resilient Economies and Communities
- Trans-disciplinary Navigation: Deep Thoughts by the Token Engineering Community
- Engineering Communities: A New Member Perspective
- Wielding Promethean Fire: The Importance of TE Public Goods
- Transparency in DAOs
- Engineering Ethics in Web3
- The Permissionless DAO
- Token Engineering is the Future of Organizational Design
- Transparency Within a DAO
- DAO Membership
- Expertise and Quadratic Funding
- An Exploration of Blockchain Governance (series)
Token Engineering Commons — talks & video
Selected recordings from the TEC’s YouTube channel (TEC Talks, Research Hub, and the “TEPG” series):
- Token Engineering as Public Goods | Fireside Chat with Industry Leaders
- DAO Swarms | TEC Research Hub with Daniel Ospina
- Identity & Group Formation in Blockchain | TEC Research Hub with Josey Beets
- Building a Stablecoin Backed by Impact Assets | TEC Talks with Joshua
- The Kokonut Network — Localism Highlights | TEC Talks with Wasabi
- TEPG Episode 1 — Smart Contract Audits
- TEPG Episode 2 — Predictions, Data Markets, and Ocean Protocol’s Predictoor
- TEPG Episode 3 — AI + TE: A New Era of Token Engineering with cadCAD GPT
A field it helped seed
The TEC’s influence extended well beyond its own walls. It went on to inspire the creation of multiple organizations and individuals who have created and contributed to the ongoing development of token engineering through education, research, tooling, and standards that continue after the Commons itself has closed. The work below, from collaborators and the wider field, reflects that lineage.
Writing
- Token Engineering: First Principles - CoinShares
- Towards a Practice of Token Engineering — Ocean Protocol
- The Data Value Creation Loop — Ocean Protocol
- Token Engineering Case Studies — Ocean Protocol
- Token Engineering Fundamentals — Token Engineering Academy
- Navigating Token Engineering: The Blueprint for Designing Sustainable Decentralized Economies — BlockApex
- Establishing Open Token Engineering Tools & Standards — Commons Stack
- Conviction Voting: A Novel Continuous Decision-Making Alternative to Governance — Commons Stack
- Exploring Bonding Curves: Differentiating Primary, Secondary & Automated Market Makers — Jeff Emmett
- Rewriting the Story of Human Collaboration — Good Audience
- BlockScience — Medium publication — TE Firm
- Token Kitchen — Medium publication — TE Writers
Talks & video
- Token Engineering Fundamentals | Michael Zargham & Matt Barlin, BlockScience — BlockScience
- Introduction to Token Engineering & Community Updates around the Globe — FullNode Berlin — TE Academy
- Token Engineering | Trent McConaghy, CE Meetup — Cryptoeconomics Hub
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