18 papers
Cardano's Voltaire Governance: Complete Specification and Research Program
Nimrod Talmon, Oghenekaro Elem
The paper presents a detailed technical specification of Cardano's Voltaire on‑chain governance system and outlines a research program for analyzing and optimizing its mechanisms.
Constitutional Governance in Metric Spaces
Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
Computational social choice and algorithmic decision theory offer rich aggregation theory but no end-to-end process for egalitarian self-governance: aggregation, deliberation, amen…
Grassroots Federation: Fair Democratic Governance at Scale
Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
We propose a framework for the fair democratic governance of federated digital communities that form and evolve dynamically, where small groups self-govern and larger groups are re…
Legitimate Overrides in Decentralized Protocols
Oghenekaro Elem, Nimrod Talmon
Decentralized protocols claim immutable, rule-based execution, yet many embed emergency mechanisms such as chain-level freezes, protocol pauses, and account quarantines. These over…
Probably Approximately Consensus: On the Learning Theory of Finding Common Ground
Carter Blair, Ben Armstrong, Shiri Alouf-Heffetz +2
A primary goal of online deliberation platforms is to identify ideas that are broadly agreeable to a community of users through their expressed preferences. Yet, consensus elicitat…
Query-Based Committee Selection
Itay Asher Zimet, Shiri Alouf-Heffetz, Nimrod Talmon
Purpose: Multiwinner voting rules typically require full knowledge of voter preferences, which becomes impractical in large-scale or attention-limited settings. This paper investig…