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Morning Edition · Saturday, June 20, 2026
Researchers Probe the Limits of On-Chain Governance: Futarchy's Trust Gap and Reputation Wallets
Two Ethereum research posts question whether markets and wallets can encode collective judgment without reintroducing the trusted gatekeepers decentralization set out to remove.
Two posts on Ethereum's research forum take a skeptical look at the idea that on-chain systems can capture collective judgment. The first examines futarchy, a governance model in which markets vote on outcomes by betting on which proposal w…
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