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Check out the highlights & outcomes of the event ↴
Retrospective: GG @ Edge Esmeralda
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*Governance Games is a lab for decentralized decision-making, cryptoeconomics, and mechanism design — ***gathering high-context participants to address growth and alignment challenges and shape advancements in Ethereum governance.
Take a peek at last year’s edition → YouTube Playlist / Notion Page
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Edge Esmeralda — Healdsburg, California
June 2-6, 2025
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GG EE is a live experiment in collective intelligence, capital allocation, and decentralized governance—focused on advancing Ethereum’s long-term growth objectives.
How much does Ethereum’s Governance constrain its growth potential?
Over five days, we’ll explore how Conditional Funding Markets (CFMs) and other governance mechanisms can address the Ethereum ecosystem’s growth objectives.
Through working sessions, strategy games, and high-context discussions, we’ll collaboratively design and prototype a CFM that will identify Ethereum’s most promising growth initiatives.
The result: a first-of-its-kind governance game, designed, played, and launched by us at Edge Esmeralda.
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Register for GG EE → https://lu.ma/kag4e0nd
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Core Themes
→ Futarchy & Market-Based Governance
→ Ecosystem-Aligned Capital Allocation
→ Mechanism Design & Decision Infrastructure
→ Forecasting, Signal Quality & Transparency
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Target Audience
→ Governance & Mechanism Designers
→ Decision-makers & Core Contributors
→ Capital allocators & ETH holders
→ Thought-leaders & Researchers
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All of the sessions listed below will take place at The Hub in Boardroom 6 @ 405 Healdsburg Ave. Links to Edge Esmeralda event pages below:
| DAY 1 / MON. June 2 | Align: Signal Discovery |
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| GG Unconference / Propose a Session → Here | |
| DAY 2 / TUE. June 3 | Diverge: Exploring the Design Space |
| DAY 3 / WED. June 4 | Wargames: Testing Assumptions |
| Evening Meetup: Fireside Chat | |
| DAY 4 / THU. June 5 | Converge: Design Sprint |
| DAY 5 / FRI. June 6 | Deploy: Retrospective & Next Steps |
| MORNING COFFEE HOUR & NETWORKING 9:00am—10:00am |
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Opening
10:00—10:15am
| Setting the Stage | Vaughn McKenzie-Landell Butter |
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Presentations
10:15am—11:00am
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Make sure to bring your laptop!
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