Protocol Reader [electronic resource].

Ethereum Foundation 2025

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The Protocol Reader comprises 26 foundational essays by 31 authors from the Summer of Protocols program, carefully edited and sequenced to introduce you to the discipline of Protocol Studies. In Part 1, Seeing Protocols, you will find a set of essays that will help sensitize you to the protocols all around us, and the patterns of phenomenology they present. In Part 2, Arguing Protocols, we introduce a variety of analytical and conceptual frameworks designed to help you think about protocols. In Part 3, World Engines, we have a set of application-oriented essays from a variety of domains that aim to build your basic “protocol muscles,” and intuitions, enabling you to make decisions and choose behaviors with a literate awareness. Finally, in Part 4, Living With Protocols, we have a set of wide-angle essays that offer broad views of the world through protocol-tinted glasses, and two speculative fiction pieces that attempt to envision protocolized futures.
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Venkatesh Rao
Tim Beiko
Josh Davis
Drew Austin
Chenoe Hart
Timber Stinson-Schroff
Angela Walch
Rafael Fernández
Kei Kreutler
Josh Stark
Saffron Huang
Nadia Asparouhova
Sarah Friend
Janna Tay
Danny Ryan
Trent Van Epps
Bastian Aue
David Lang
Dorian Taylor
Kara Kittel
Toby Shorin
Steve Powers
Shreeda Segan
Olivia Steiert
Anonymous
Eric Alston
Seth Killian
Garette David
Alice Noujaim
Shuya Gong
Fangting
Botao Amber Hu
Rithikha Rajamohan
Jenna Dixon