Crowdfunding

Papers:

• Launch hard or go home!: predicting the success of kickstarter campaigns. Etter, Grossglauser, Thiran (2013)
• Using past contribution patterns to forecast fundraising outcomes in crowdfunding. Fan-Osuala, Zantedeschi, Jank (2018)
• Optimal crowdfunding design. Ellman and Hurkens (2019)
• A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods. Buterin Hitzig Weyl (2020)

Platforms:

https://www.kickstarter.com
https://www.indiegogo.com/
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en
https://www.rockethub.com/
https://www.kiva.org/
https://www.patreon.com

Data:

Panel data on campaigns and contributions (on request)

Tokenomics

Papers:

• How Blockchain Tokens Are Changing Platform Economics. Halaburda (2022)
• Platform Tokenization: Financing, Governance, and Moral Hazard. Chod, Trichakis, Yang (2022)
• The Role of Cryptographic Tokens and ICOs in Fostering Platform Adoption. Halaburda and Bakos (2022)
• Bitcoin: An Axiomatic Approach and an Impossibility Theorem. Leshno and Strack (2022)

NFT Projects:

https://www.cryptokitties.co/
https://opensea.io/collection/cryptoapes-official

Whitepapers:

Worldcoin: https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/
Bittensor: https://bittensor.com/whitepaper

Digital Euro

Papers:

• Bank Market Power and Central Bank Digital Currency: Theory and Quantitative Assessment. Chiu, Davoodalhosseini, Jiang, Zhu (2023)
• The Digitalization of Money. Brunnermeier James Landau (2019)
• The digital euro: policy implications and perspectives. Brunnermeier Landau (2022)
• Rise of the central bank digital currencies: drivers, approaches and technologies. Auer, Cornelli, Frost (2020).

Resources:

• ECB Podcast
  https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/tvservices/podcast/html/ecb.pod231024_episode71.en.html
• IMF discussion on CBDC
  https://www.imf.org/en/News/Seminars/Conferences/2023/11/13/111323-STI-central-bank-digital-currency-emerging-good-practice
• What is China’s new CBDC, and what is it not?
  https://forkast.news/china-cbdc-dcep-central-bank-digital-currency-yuan-zhiguo-he/

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

Protocols:

MakerDAO: https://makerdao.com
ConstitutionDAO: https://www.constitutiondao.com/
Decentraland: https://decentraland.org/
DAO database: https://daocentral.com/

Papers:

• DAO Decentralization: Voting-Bloc Entropy, Bribery, and Dark DAOs. Austgen et al (2023)
• Token-Weighted Crowdsourcing. Tsoukalas and Falk (2019)
• Balancing Power in Decentralized Governance: Quadratic Voting and Information Aggregation. Benhaim, Falk, Tsoukalas (2024)
• Fundamentals of the MakerDAO governance token. Kozhan, Viswanath-Natraj (2022)
• A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods. Buterin, Hitzig, Weyl. (2019)