Jeff Emmett
Jeff Emmett is a Token Engineering researcher at BlockScience and co-founder of the Commons Stack, an organization focused on building open-source infrastructure for scalable community collaboration and regenerative economic systems.
Description
Jeff Emmett draws inspiration from mycelial networks and biomimetic processes in nature, identifying as a "mycopunk" - someone working to create customizable regenerative economies that serve purpose-driven communities. His goal is developing a toolkit for regenerative economies that support purpose-driven communities while addressing capitalism's excesses.
From the Giveth blog:
"The Commons Stack wants to scale the commons and provide a library of open source blockchain tools that enable purpose-driven communities to raise and allocate funding, make decisions and measure impact, to mitigate the free-rider problem and address the biggest problems of our times."
Background
In late 2018, Jeff sent a copy of an article he wrote on his views of the future of charity to Griff Green, the founder of Giveth. Green called him up a few weeks later and said "we're going to build that, when do you want to start?" The Commons Stack started up in early 2019 after a year of independent research, co-founded by Jeff Emmett, Griff Green, Michael Zargham, and the rest of the team.
Key Contributions
Commons Stack
The Commons Stack creates blockchain tools for handling the commons, addressing political biases in crypto, and developing crypto-economic systems. The organization believes cyber-physical commons infrastructure can offer communities a toolkit to operate like co-owned and peer-governed platform cooperatives.
Key innovations include:
- Augmented Bonding Curves - Token economic mechanisms for sustainable funding
- Conviction Voting - A novel governance mechanism for resource allocation
- Token Engineering Commons - A community applying token engineering to public goods
Publications
Jeff Emmett has authored significant works including:
- "Rewriting the Story of Human Collaboration"
- "Challenges and Approaches to Scaling the Global Commons"
- "Architecting the Cyber-Physical Commons"