Stablecoins have evolved from a safe-haven asset to a critical financial instrument, reaching a market capitalization of $200 billion in December 2024. The Terra-Luna collapse (2022) and the Silicon Valley Bank crisis (2023) significantly impacted market dynamics, consolidating the dominance of...

We formalize "degrees of fungibility" by differentiating goods according to both their underlying attributes and the perceived value and/or usefulness of those attributes to a value assessor. This allows us to distinguish between goods that appear to be "exactly the same" from those goods that...

The report "Kultur-Token Sustainable Business Model:Visualizing, Tokenizing, and Rewarding Mobility Behavior in Vienna, Austria" is the result of an ongoing scientific collaboration between the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics and the City of Vienna. This case study uses business modeling...

Discrete event games are discrete time dynamical systems whose state transitions are discrete events caused by actions taken by agents within the game. The agents' objectives and associated decision rules need not be known to the game designer in order to impose struc- ture on a game’s...

Blockchain networks and similar cryptoeconomic networks are systems, specifically complex systems. They are adaptive networks with multiscale spatio-temporal dynamics. Individual actions may be incentivized towards a collective goal with "purpose-driven" tokens. Blockchain networks, for example,...