About the Cryptoeconomics & Mechanism Design category

The “why” category: tokenomics, consensus analysis, issuance curves, incentive and governance mechanism design, academic-style write-ups and deep critiques.

Not “how does it work” but “why is it designed this way — and should it be different”. Long, careful posts thrive here; this is the slow reading room of the forum, and threads in it are meant to be worth rereading years later.

Sharp criticism of CKB’s design has exactly the same standing here as enthusiastic praise. The only thing we ask of either is that the argument holds.