Kleros

R&D

Kleros conducts pioneering research at the intersection of cryptoeconomics, computer science, law, and governance.

Stanford Paper

Yellow Paper

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R&D

Kleros conducts pioneering research at the intersection of cryptoeconomics, computer science, law, and governance.

Stanford Paper

Yellow Paper

White Paper

R&D

Kleros conducts pioneering research at the intersection of cryptoeconomics, computer science, law, and governance.

Stanford Paper

Yellow Paper

White Paper

Research

Fellowship

Research

We design decentralized systems that ensure fair, secure, and tamper-resistant dispute resolution.

Research

We design decentralized systems that ensure fair, secure, and tamper-resistant dispute resolution.

Research

We design decentralized systems that ensure fair, secure, and tamper-resistant dispute resolution.

Mechanism Design

Incentive-aligned systems that ensure fair outcomes through strategic decision-making.

Mechanism Design

Incentive-aligned systems that ensure fair outcomes through strategic decision-making.

Mechanism Design

Incentive-aligned systems that ensure fair outcomes through strategic decision-making.

Voting and Incentive Systems

Including social choice theory, peer prediction, and other models for collective decision-making.

Voting and Incentive Systems

Including social choice theory, peer prediction, and other models for collective decision-making.

Voting and Incentive Systems

Including social choice theory, peer prediction, and other models for collective decision-making.

Blockchain Identity

Tools like Soulbound Tokens for establishing verifiable, non-transferable credentials on-chain.

Blockchain Identity

Tools like Soulbound Tokens for establishing verifiable, non-transferable credentials on-chain.

Blockchain Identity

Tools like Soulbound Tokens for establishing verifiable, non-transferable credentials on-chain.

Information Flow

Protocols for secure communication and privacy, including zero-knowledge proof schemes.

Information Flow

Protocols for secure communication and privacy, including zero-knowledge proof schemes.

Information Flow

Protocols for secure communication and privacy, including zero-knowledge proof schemes.

Blockchain Consensus & Randomness

Secure random number generation and consensus mechanisms for fair juror selection in decentralized justice protocols.

Blockchain Consensus & Randomness

Secure random number generation and consensus mechanisms for fair juror selection in decentralized justice protocols.

Blockchain Consensus & Randomness

Secure random number generation and consensus mechanisms for fair juror selection in decentralized justice protocols.

DAO Governance

Enhancing DAO governance by integrating decentralized dispute resolution to handle conflicts and proposal challenges.

DAO Governance

Enhancing DAO governance by integrating decentralized dispute resolution to handle conflicts and proposal challenges.

DAO Governance

Enhancing DAO governance by integrating decentralized dispute resolution to handle conflicts and proposal challenges.

Legal Enforceability

Exploring how decentralized rulings can be recognized and enforced under traditional legal systems.

Legal Enforceability

Exploring how decentralized rulings can be recognized and enforced under traditional legal systems.

Legal Enforceability

Exploring how decentralized rulings can be recognized and enforced under traditional legal systems.

Regulatory Equivalence

Designing protocols that align with legal standards to ensure regulatory equivalence and compliance.

Regulatory Equivalence

Designing protocols that align with legal standards to ensure regulatory equivalence and compliance.

Regulatory Equivalence

Designing protocols that align with legal standards to ensure regulatory equivalence and compliance.

Kleros Doctoral Research Support Grant at the University of Oxford

Kleros supports a fully funded DPhil at the University of Oxford, focused on voting and incentive systems in decentralized justice. Supervised by Dr. Paul Goldberg, the research deepens the theoretical foundations of mechanisms like Kleros.

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Kleros Sponsors the Stanford Journal on Blockchain Law & Policy

Kleros supports the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy (JBLP), the first academic law journal dedicated to blockchain and a leading platform at the intersection of law, technology, and decentralization. The partnership advances research on decentralized justice and governance.

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Selected Publications

When Online Dispute Resolution Meets Blockchain: The Birth of Decentralized Justice

Federico Ast and Bruno Deffains.

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Decentralised Justice: Reinventing Arbitration for the Digital Age?

Sophie Nappert and Federico Ast.

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Decentralized justice: state of the art, recurring criticisms and next-generation research topics.

Federico Ast, William George, Jamilya Kamalova, Abeer Sharma and Yann Aouidef.

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A Smart Contract Oracle for Approximating Real-World, Real Number Values