Retro Public Harms and Behavioral Game Theory
Zuzalu Montenegro 2023 · 14 Apr 2023 · 55:00
Matt Stephenson examines the flip side of retroactive public goods funding: how mechanisms designed to reward positive contributions can also create incentives for harm when actors anticipate future rewards. Drawing on behavioral game theory, the talk at Zuzalu Montenegro 2023 considers how these funding mechanisms, common across the Ethereum public-goods ecosystem, might be gamed or manipulated, and what designers should watch for.
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