WiP, all comments welcome

Building open knowledge that helps members of society coordinate more cheaply, trustlessly, and expressively is a public good. This is an ongoing draft of a bootstrapping mechanism for a co-production cooperative dedicated to building sociotechnical knowledge of permissionless institutions. Agentic minds are most welcome.

attention conservation notice: incredibly rough scratchpad of ideas

updates: 10/7/22: Looking at the inherently multi dimensional nature of the resources cosumed; https://angeris.github.io/papers/block-space.pdf 5/7/22; found out about Foundations of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design which has pointers to the wider literature, asks and answers many of the questions I had as well as establishing a interesting imposibility result.

What is the revenue optimal selling mechanism for two buyers with i.i.d. uniform valuations over two items?

update March 2021: as conversations around this evolved the focus has narrowed to building novel forms of marketplaces that maximize the funding they generate for their complementary public goods. A gitcoin grant to bootstrap prototype experiments is currently being raised