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Sovereign Grassroots Currencies: A CBDC Architecture for Credit and Monetary Policy (Full Version)
Ehud Shapiro
A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is central-bank money in digital form, held by the public. Leading designs have two limitations: conversion from bank deposits into CBDC can…
Formalising and Implementing Grassroots Social Contracts: From Legal Text to Grassroots Platforms (Full Version)
James Golike, Andy Lewis-Pye, Ehud Shapiro
Two centuries ago Pierre-Joseph Proudhon envisioned a social contract that is (1) an agreement of man with man; (2) reciprocal; (3) imposing no obligation upon the parties except t…
GLP: A Grassroots, Multiagent, Concurrent, Logic Programming Language for AI
Ehud Shapiro
A grassroots platform is a multiagent distributed system in which multiple independent instances can form and operate independently of each other and of any global resource, yet ma…
Securing People and their Machines Against Major Faults
Ohad Eitan, Idit Keidar, Ehud Shapiro
We consider grassroots platforms -- distributed systems of agents consisting of people identified by self-chosen public keys and their machines (smartphones) -- and wish to make th…
Digital Speech Acts Retain Control of Copyright with People, Not Platforms
James Golike, Ehud Shapiro
Legal precedents protect computer code as copyrightable expression. They have enabled centralized digital platforms -- operating from corporate servers that hold all user data -- t…
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…
Volition-Guarded Multiagent Atomic Transactions: Describing People and their Machines
Andy Lewis-Pye, Ehud Shapiro
Formal models for concurrent and distributed systems describe machines; the people who operate them are either ignored or treated as external environment. Yet, key distributed syst…
Grassroots Bonds: Financing by the People, for the People
Ehud Shapiro
Grassroots currencies turn mutual trust into liquidity: a grassroots coin is a unit of its issuer's debt, backed by the issuer's goods and services, which the issuer must redeem, 1…
Characterising Global Platforms: Centralised, Decentralised, Federated, and Grassroots
Ehud Shapiro
Global digital platforms are distributed systems designed to serve entire populations, with some already serving billions of people. Here we propose atomic transactions-based multi…
GLP: A Grassroots, Multiagent, Concurrent, Logic Programming Language for AI (Full Version)
Ehud Shapiro
A grassroots platform is a multiagent distributed system in which multiple independent instances can form and operate independently of each other and of any global resource, yet ma…
Constitutional Consensus for Democratic Governance
Idit Keidar, Andrew Lewis-Pye, Ehud Shapiro +1
Permissionless-consensus-based Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are the prevailing paradigm for participant-governed digital organisations. As participants have verifi…
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…
Grassroots Platforms with Atomic Transactions: Social Networks, Cryptocurrencies, and Democratic Federations
Ehud Shapiro
Grassroots platforms aim to offer an egalitarian alternative to global platforms. Whereas global platforms can have only a single instance, grassroots platforms can have multiple i…
Morpheus Consensus: Excelling on trails and autobahns
Andrew Lewis-Pye, Ehud Shapiro
Recent research in consensus has often focussed on protocols for State-Machine-Replication (SMR) that can handle high throughputs. Such state-of-the-art protocols (generally DAG-ba…
A Grassroots Architecture to Supplant Global Digital Platforms by a Global Digital Democracy
Ehud Shapiro
We present an architectural alternative to global digital platforms termed grassroots, designed to serve the social, economic, civic, and political needs of local digital communiti…
The Blocklace: A Byzantine-repelling and Universal Conflict-free Replicated Data Type
Paulo Sérgio Almeida, Ehud Shapiro
Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) are designed for replica convergence without global coordination or consensus. Recent work has achieved the same in a Byzantine environm…
Grassroots Currencies: Turning Mutual Trust into Liquidity (Full Version)
Ehud Shapiro
Global cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether are unbacked and bear the cost of global consensus on every transaction. A grassroots coin is a claim on its issuer---any person,…