Explore the DRC's Latest Opinion Pieces and Conversations
Welcome to the DRC blog, where we’ll be sharing insights and reflections on the themes that animate our work: how decentralized technologies are governed; what equitable data ownership might look like; how we can align technological progress with public values (and challenge it when it doesn’t); and where theory comes into contact with real-world implementation.
From Laws to Ledgers: Why Protocols—Not Policy—Must Tame Self-Sovereign AI. By Helena Rong and Botao ‘Amber’ Hu
In light of the current development of the “agentic web,” we are perhaps witnessing the birth of a new digital species: decentralized AI agents (DeAgents) that train, reason, transact, and even reproduce without human-in-the-loop.
What Did We Learn from the World’s Largest Hack? By Kelsie Nabben
What Did We Learn from the $1.5 billion Bybit hack as individuals and as an ecosystem? Research insights from an ethnographic investigation and forthcoming book on decentralised security.
Introducing the Decentralization Research Center Blog
The Decentralization Research Center (DRC) is a nonprofit research and advocacy organization dedicated to one of the defining issues of our time: how power is distributed in the digital age.