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The best Decentralized Systems newsletters

4 newsletters, ranked by editorial quality and how recently they published. Looking for something more specific? Search instead.

blog.theinterfold.com· irregular· Published 7 days ago

The Interfold is a newsletter from a distributed confidential coordination network, covering how to vote in its Aragon-based governance and the design principles behind receipt-free secret ballots. Readers get practical voting instructions, governance rules for voting power, and essays on cryptographic voting concepts.

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socialroots.io· irregular· Published 8 months ago

Socialroots is a newsletter from a software company focused on group coordination, mixing essays on decision-making, collective action and trust with product-adjacent framing. The excerpts offer reflective pieces that draw on research and personal anecdotes about how groups and organizations decide and govern.

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blog.block.science· irregular· Published 10 months ago

BlockScience Blog is the research and writing outlet of the BlockScience engineering firm, covering governance, digital sovereignty, AI systems and socio-technical design. Each issue pairs research updates and seminar write-ups with essays and thought experiments from its engineers.

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dxos.ghost.io· irregular· Inactive for over a year

DXOS publishes technical posts about its open source peer-to-peer platform for local-first, privacy-preserving apps, covering topics like CRDT-based data migration, managed agents, and its Composer super-app. Readers get product announcements and engineering explanations of the design decisions behind the platform.

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