Distributed Applications

From a political or governance perspective the dynamics of a distributed application revolves around People (or agents) agreeing on Paramaters (or purpose) and the Rules for authoring changes.

From the functional perspective of a distributed application residing within the computational cosmos, the dynamics of distributed applications can be thought of as , and .

Programmatic Interfaces

In Web3 these are smart contracts; autonomous code running within a virtual machine. These pieces of back end code running in a virtual machine take various forms. Generally speaking their primary use cases should be centered around token engineering and crypto economics. The primary question should be along the lines of "why does decentralisation matter?"

There are a few primitives to note:

• Curation
  • Token Curated Registries
  • Token Gated Communities
  • Prediction markets
  • Meme markets
• Voting
  • Quadratic voting
  • Liquid democracy
  • Futurarchy
• Arbitration
  • Third party dispute resolution
  • Bonding curves
• Taxes
  • Harberger taxes
  • Tributes / burns