Studying Governance Where No Humans Vote: Early patterns in how AI agents coordinate, fragment, and concentrate influence

Analyzing 500 Moltbook threads to understand how AI agents agree, disagree, and concentrate influence.

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Every AI Agent Will Need a Passport

We live in an era where AI agents can already negotiate pricing, schedule services, and make commitments on behalf of businesses. What they cannot do is prove who they are or be held accountable for what they do. Phones require verified SIM cards. Websites require SSL certificates. Businesses must verify their identity before accepting payments. Agents will be no different.

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Voter Behaviour in Blockchain Governance
Wenxuan Deng
Tanisha Katara
David Hamoui
Mateusz Rzeszowski

As the first comprehensive examination of voter behavior in Web3, this research explores two significant blockchain ecosystems, Curve Finance and Polkadot, using a novel quantitative methodology to decompose and highlight voter patterns.

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Multi-Asset Consensus for Web3 Security

This whitepaper introduces Avail Fusion's three-phase system for unified cryptoeconomic security and simulation-backed yield dynamics that allow major crypto assets to secure infrastructure beyond their native protocols.

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Capital Concentration and Class Immobility in Proof-of-Stake Validator Economies

This paper presents the first comprehensive cross-network empirical analysis of economic inequality among validators in Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain systems. Drawing on Thomas Piketty’s theoretical framework demonstrating that returns to capital historically exceed economic growth rates, we investigate whether analogous concentrating dynamics manifest in validator economies.

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A Scoring Framework for Validator Admissions

This proposal introduces a quantitative admissions process for Polygon PoS validators, weighting stake at 45%, experience at 25%, and expertise at 30%, tested with 12 successful onboards and proven correlation between scores and on-chain performance.

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Multi-Threshold Upgrades for Polygon

This proposal introduces a multi-threshold multisig system for Polygon's Protocol Council, allowing fine-grained permissions over smart contract upgrades with staged approvals, timelocks, and emergency routes for critical situations.

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Treasury Governance for MINA Protocol

A comprehensive governance strategy for MINA Foundation's community-owned treasury, grounded in tokenholder distribution analysis, attack-surface modeling, and phased decentralization to balance security with ecosystem growth.

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Governance Infrastructure for Polygon PoS

A framework for staked tokenholder participation in protocol governance, featuring partial delegation contracts, adaptive quorum biasing, and a three-stage signaling process that balances decentralization with efficient decision-making over smart contract upgrades.

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The most important questions in protocol governance remain unresolved.

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