Category Topics

Post Ideas

This is a category for discussing ideas for Research Summary and Discussion posts.
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Grant Proposals, Bounties and Awards

From financing lit review bounties, summarizing existing papers or funding to original research SCRF is proud to directly support novel and actionable blockchain research.
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Meta

Discussion about this site, its organization, how it works, and how we can improve it.
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Auditing and Security

Audits, Audit Standardization, Post-Mortem Discussions, etc.
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Oracles and Data

Off-chain events, data quality, network performance, oracle design, etc.
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Consensus

The study of how distributed multi-agent systems achieve agreement on information and decisions, including data about system state.
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Scaling

Sharding, State Channels, Off-chain computation and other L1 and L2 scaling solutions
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Mechanism Design and Game Theory

Agent-based-system design, decision-making processes, incentive system architecture, algorithm design, etc.
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Governance and Coordination

Social organisation of network-based actors, system decisions or actions, incentives, confidentiality, etc.
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Cryptography

Encryption/decryption, public/private keys, hash functions, zero-knowledge, database encryption, etc.
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Tooling and Languages

Software, programming environments, development tools, visualisation tools, syntax, sysadmin tools, network management, end-user development, etc.
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Privacy

Confidentiality, pseudonymity, data mining, system security, network security, access control, identification, authentication, etc.
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