Spring 2025
This course offers an overview of blockchain governance and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), with topics including DAO tooling, on-chain and off-chain voting, delegation, constitutional design, alternative governance mechanisms, identity, and privacy.
We will cover these topics and others from technical, social science, and legal perspectives, and we will include a range of guests from the web3 space who are on the frontiers of DAO research and practice.
SyllabusStaff: Jeff Strnad, Silke Noa Elrifai
Time: Tue, Thurs 11:10 AM - 12:40 PM
Classroom: LAW 180
Basic familiarity with blockchains and cryptocurrencies recommended. Prerequisite background reading list on the syllabus page.
Contact: cs352b-staff@scs.stanford.edu
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