R&D
Kleros has a highly active research team specializing in cryptoeconomics, computer science, business, and law.
Research
Mechanism design.
Blockchain identity tools such as Soulbound Tokens.
DAO governance optimization through the use of decentralized dispute resolution protocols.
Legal recognition and enforcement of decisions made through decentralized dispute resolution mechanisms.
Achieving regulatory equivalence with legal norms and procedures.
Voting and incentive systems such as social choice theory and peer-prediction.
Flow of information in cryptoeconomic systems, such as zero-knowledge proof schemes.
Security of decentralized justice systems, focusing on consensus and on-chain randomness.
Selected Publications
By Kleros Team Members
A Smart Contract Oracle for Approximating Real-World, Real Number Values. International Conference on Blockchain Economics, Security and Protocols
William George and Clément Lesaege. March 2020
Decentralised justice: reinventing arbitration for the digital age?
Sophie Nappert and Federico Ast. Global Arbitration Review. May 2020
By Third Parties
Kleros: A Socio-Legal Case Study of Decentralized Justice & Blockchain Arbitration. Luis Bergolla, Karen Seif and Can Eken. Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. 2022
Applying blockchain to the modern legal system: Kleros as a decentralised dispute resolution system. Alesia Zhuk. International Cybersecurity Law Review. 2023
The Future of Commercial Arbitration: Blockchain. NA Shiddiq, D Budhijanto, M Maulana. Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization. 2024
The Governance of Blockchain Dispute Resolution. Darcy Allen, Aaron Lane, Marta Poblet. Harvard Negotiation Law Review. 2019
Uncertainty and dispute resolution for blockchain and smart contract institutions. Bronwyn E. Howell and Petrus H. Potgieter. Journal of Institutional Economics. 2021
Lex Cryptographia Guidelines for Ensuring Due Process in Transnational Blockchain-Based Arbitration: Study on the Kleros Model. Gabriela Cosío Patiño. Transnational Dispute Management. 2022
Download the Kleros Book
Dispute Revolution: The Kleros Handbook of Decentralized Justice.
