Days: Monday, July 3rd Tuesday, July 4th
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Theoretical / epistemic frameworks
| 10:00 | The decentralised Web as the “Cause” of Organisations (abstract) |
| 10:20 | Is a hardfork like a schism or like a corporate spin-off? Useful and useless points of reference for the governance implications of blockchain soft and hard forks (abstract) |
| 10:40 | Picking the juiciest cherries from the Blockchain tree (abstract) |
| 11:00 | Digital Identity Infrastructures: a Critical Approach of Self-Sovereign Identity (abstract) |
Regulatiing blockchain applications
| 11:45 | Blockchain for Criminal Justice in the EU; An opportunity or a threat? (abstract) |
| 12:05 | Analysis of changes in the legal regulations of cryptocurrencies in the European Union, the USA, and Russia from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic till the end of the first half-year of 2022 (abstract) |
| 12:25 | Data protection and beneficial ownership transparency (abstract) |
| 12:45 | A critical realist approach to the Self-Sovereign Identity: Legal and Societal Opportunities and Challenges for Data Protection and Beyond (abstract) |
DAOs and smart contracts
| 14:30 | Transparency Standards of Blockchain-Based Smart Contract Arbitration (abstract) |
| 14:50 | The unusual DAO: an ethnography of building trust in trustless spaces (abstract) |
| 15:10 | DAOs: legal and empirical review (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Blockchain-based governance of commons – the limits of the decentralized revolution. (abstract) |
Keynotes: Balazs Bodo, Jürgen Geuter/tante
Balazs Bodo: "Techno-utopias, institutional realities, and greed"
The revolution, at least in this instance, will not be decentralized. What were the factors that derailed the decentralized, open source, communitarian, participative techno-utopian proposals on how to address our most pressing social, economic, political challenges? Unlike in some other cases, why did the techno-solutions fall short in comparison with other, more traditional, legal and institutional alternatives? This talk argues that the inherent financial component in all blockchain project demonstrated the destructive effects of commodification of social relations, and as such revealed a hard limit of the use of this techno-social governance approach.
Dr. Balazs Bodo was the founding director of the Blockchain and Society Policy Research Lab. He is a social scientist working with legal scholars on complex technology governance issues.
Jürgen Geuter/tante: "The third web that wasn't"
The promises of decentralization and machinised enforcement of politics at the core of the crypto/blockchain movement have burst in an inflated bubble of dubious financial assets. But why did those visions capture that amount of mindshare in the last years, which political beliefs did it connect to and are these connections limited to crypto or can and will the same patterns repeat? What can we salvage intellectually from the failed crypto-web?
Jürgen Geuter/tante is the research director for the new media studio ART+COM in Berlin. He also writes and theorizes sociotechnical systems and their politics and has written for many German and international publications. He was one of the primary signatories of the "Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy" (https://concerned.tech) and has been an expert for the German Bundestag on Blockchain and Web3 3 times.
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Trust in and trust by technology
| 10:00 | Science On-Chain: How Can We Trust Science Again? (abstract) |
| 10:20 | Navigating Trust and Governance in Blockchains: A Comprehensive Examination of Models and Trust Implications (abstract) |
| 10:40 | Political trust, informed consent and privacy – issues that blockchain can (not) solve? (abstract) |
| 11:00 | Governed by cryptographic affordances (abstract) |
Nfts, copyright, commons
| 11:45 | Individual Work Pricing by Non-fungible Personal Tokens (“NFT Gig Tokens”) – a New Opportunity for Gig Workers (abstract) |
| 12:05 | Navigating Intellectual Property Law and the Ethical Landscape of Non-Fungible Tokens in the Metaverse: Lessons from the METABIRKIN Case (abstract) |
| 12:25 | Polycentric Perspectives on Data Governance (abstract) |
| 12:45 | The role data intermediaries in B2G data sharing (abstract) |
Finance and crypto assets, theory, regulation, practice
| 14:30 | Open Finance Regulations of Turkey and the European Union in the Framework of Blockchain (abstract) |
| 14:50 | Crypto assets in the EU context. A theoretical analysis based on nudge theories. (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Regulation of blockchain products (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Monetary Sovereignty in the Digital Era - The Law & Macroeconomics of Digital Private Money (abstract) |