RESEARCH & WRITINGS
Here is a selection of my research-based writings on the economic, technological and institutional systems that shape how we live, exchange and organize society. My creative and more political texts can be found under Art
MONEY PATTERNS
Money Patterns is a long term research project which I am currently developing simultaneously as a book and a large-scale immersive multimedia installation.
The project explores money not as a neutral medium of exchange, but as one of humanity's most powerful social technologies—a system that shapes how we value nature, labor, time, and one another. Drawing on decades of research into monetary history, blockchain networks, ecological economics, anthropology, governance, and systems thinking, Money Patterns traces the evolution of the ledger from its ritual and neurobiological origins to today's financial algorithms.
Rather than asking how money works, the project asks how different monetary systems influence the type pf society we live in and vice versa. By revealing the historical patterns behind our current economic assumptions, Money Patterns argues that our financial systems are neither natural nor inevitable—they are human inventions, and therefore open to redesign.
CRYPTO
My research into money is not new. It started back in 2009, and first led me into the world of crypto. In 2015, I founded BlockchainHub Berlin, one of the first educational think tanks dedicated to exploring the social, economic, and governance implications of Bitcoin and other blockchain networks. At a time when most discussions focused almost exclusively on the technology itself, BlockchainHub sought to make these emerging systems understandable to policymakers, businesses, researchers, and the broader public. The initiative later expanded through satellite organizations in Brussels, Sofia, and Graz.
In 2016, I became one of the curators of TheDAO , one of the earliest decentralized organizations. Two years later, I co-founded and became the inaugural director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics.
During this period, I wrote the three editions of Token Economy, which became an international bestseller, in particular its 2nd Edition. Throughout this work, my goal was to make complex socio-technical systems accessible to people without technical backgrounds.
I believe that those who live within technological systems should also be able to participate in shaping and governing them. Understanding these infrastructures is therefore a prerequisite for democratic participation in their evolution.
TOKEN ECONOMY [BOOK]
RESEARCH PAPER Foundations of Cryptoeconomic Systems
INDUSTRY RESEARCH Sustainable Development Report: Blockchain, the Web3 & the SDGs
BOOK CHAPTER Business Purpose Design
BOOK CHAPTER Rechtshandbuch smart contracts
RESEARCH PAPER Disrupting Governance with Blockchains and Smart Contracts
GOVERNMENT REPORT Technologiestiftung Berlin
BLOG PUBICATIONS
Posts I published under my Personal Name
Posts I published under TOKEN KITCHEN (Previously BLOCKCHAINHUB)
Post I published as CRYPTOECONOMICS RESEARCH LAB
VIDEOS & PODCASTSINTERVIEWS & ARTICLESKEYNOTES & PANELSCONSULTING & WORKSHOPS
