Ideas
I contribute to the public conversation on justice, governance, and the rule of law in an age of algorithmic societies.
Topics
Decentralized Justice
How crowdsourced wisdom and decentralized infrastructures are creating fast, affordable, and transparent dispute resolution systems for the digital and algorithmic economy.
Decentralized Justice
How crowdsourced wisdom and decentralized infrastructures are creating fast, affordable, and transparent dispute resolution systems for the digital and algorithmic economy.
Digital and AI Governance
The ethical, legal, and structural frameworks required to govern artificial intelligence, blending automated systems with decentralized human judgment to secure the rule of law.
Digital and AI Governance
The ethical, legal, and structural frameworks required to govern artificial intelligence, blending automated systems with decentralized human judgment to secure the rule of law.
Institutional Design
The reinvention of legal, economic, and social institutions driven by exponential technologies, ensuring governance, efficiency, and stability in an agentic society.
Institutional Design
The reinvention of legal, economic, and social institutions driven by exponential technologies, ensuring governance, efficiency, and stability in an agentic society.
Selected Talks
Decentralized Justice: A New Legal Paradigm
An exploration of how blockchain and game theory can reinvent arbitration, building a new legal infrastructure for the global digital economy.
Decentralized Justice: A New Legal Paradigm
An exploration of how blockchain and game theory can reinvent arbitration, building a new legal infrastructure for the global digital economy.
AI Governance & Human Values
How decentralized justice can keep AI aligned with human values in an increasingly algorithmic society.
AI Governance & Human Values
How decentralized justice can keep AI aligned with human values in an increasingly algorithmic society.
Prediction Markets and Decentralized Courts
An examination of how prediction markets and decentralized justice can be combined into a scalable architecture for resolving disputes in the digital economy.
![Federico Ast presenting at EthCC[9] on prediction markets and decentralized courts.](https://framerusercontent.com/images/4EofX2SsiS41NQJG8zfv687VXaY.jpeg?width=2016&height=2016)
Prediction Markets and Decentralized Courts
An examination of how prediction markets and decentralized justice can be combined into a scalable architecture for resolving disputes in the digital economy.
Justice Enters the Virtual Arena
How decentralized arbitration can handle player contracts, tournament conflicts, and digital asset ownership in esports.
Justice Enters the Virtual Arena
How decentralized arbitration can handle player contracts, tournament conflicts, and digital asset ownership in esports.
Political History and the Future of Governance
What centuries of political history can teach us about designing institutions that last.
Political History and the Future of Governance
What centuries of political history can teach us about designing institutions that last.
Who Moderates the Moderators?
How decentralized justice can tackle misinformation without concentrating power in platforms or governments.
![Federico Ast on stage at EthCC[4] presenting on decentralized justice and online free speech.](https://framerusercontent.com/images/mcHExJeIRCOS1g70c8nSZp28aE.png?width=2266&height=1488)
Who Moderates the Moderators?
How decentralized justice can tackle misinformation without concentrating power in platforms or governments.
Legal History and Digital Disruption
A long-run view of legal institutions, with blockchain and AI as the next chapter of that story. Talk delivered in Spanish.
Legal History and Digital Disruption
A long-run view of legal institutions, with blockchain and AI as the next chapter of that story. Talk delivered in Spanish.
Legal History and Digital Disruption
A long-run view of legal institutions, with blockchain and AI as the next chapter of that story. Talk delivered in Spanish.
Introduction to Kleros
An introduction to Kleros and the case for decentralized justice, presented at Thomson Reuters Generate 2018.
![Federico Ast on stage at EthCC[4] presenting on decentralized justice and online free speech.](https://framerusercontent.com/images/vaRHaUGZ4rQdpWpX9CLMSZgq6iI.png?width=1169&height=654)
Introduction to Kleros
An introduction to Kleros and the case for decentralized justice, presented at Thomson Reuters Generate 2018.
Introduction to Kleros
An introduction to Kleros and the case for decentralized justice, presented at Thomson Reuters Generate 2018.
Speaking Invitations
I accept select speaking invitations on law, technology, and institutional design.
Speaking Invitations
I accept select speaking invitations on law, technology, and institutional design.