Tamara Helenius
The Commons are Coming
@tamarandom
@commonsstack

Markets are failing us.

The law locks up the man and woman
who steals the goose from off the common.
But lets the greater villain loose
who steals the common from the goose.
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back.

States are failing us.

In 2009, Ostrom received the
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
for her groundbreaking research
demonstrating that ordinary
people are capable of creating
rules and institutions that allow
for the sustainable and equitable
management of shared resources.

Commons
Shared resource
+
Community
+
Set of rules

Collaborative
Economics
Methodology
- Education on objectives
- Community submits proposals
- Community votes for finalists
- Community votes for winner
- Winning proposal implemented
Library of Tools
Cultural Frameworks
- Contributor management/do-ocracy
- Celebration culture
- Inclusion/boundaries
- Participatory decision making
- Stewardship
- Economic management
- Transparency/accountability
- Covenant/graduated sanctions
- And others
- Augmented Bonding Curve
- Conviction, Osmotic Voting
- Tau Voting
- Praise reputation
- Snapshot
- Tokenlog
- And others
Research
Research collaborations with
BlockScience, Token
Engineering Academy, Token
Engineering Commons, Curve
Labs, Long Tail Financial,
MetaGov, PrimeDAO,
among others.
Research informs new
frameworks & tools.
Empirical data
informs research.

Deployment Phases & Modules
Engage Incubate Hatch Launch
- Workstream coordination
- Mission, Vision, Values
- Community voting rounds
- Conflict resolution choice
- Hatch education
- Hatch parameterization
- Community voting rounds
- Fundraise
- Commons education
- ABC parameterization
- Community voting rounds
- Commons launch
Get started.
Lay the foundation.
Build community.
Collaborative economics.
Education and outreach.
Raise funds.
1a
Participatory governance.
Launch ABC.
- Work agreements
- Reward system
- Rewarding contributions
- Review legal solutions

@tamarandom
@commonsstack