Governance Futures

Welcome to Governance Futures - a podcast where we explore how governance works (and fails) in Web3 and beyond. Hosted by Eugene Leventhal and Jamilya Kamalova, each episode dives deep into the evolving principles of coordination, accountability, and collective decision-making in decentralized ecosystems.From DAOs to ancient constitutions, Wikipedia mods to protocol politics, we talk with builders, researchers, organizers, and rebels who are shaping how power is distributed - and who gets to decide.Whether you’re deep in governance design or just crypto-curious, this is your space to explore the messy, urgent, and essential future of governance.Subscribe and join us in shaping what comes next.

Governance Futures is a science podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 20 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #18

  S.1 Ep.18 Neural Quorum Governance and the Culture of Decentralization with Anke Liu

  Nov 6, 20251h 18mS0

  <p >In this final episode of Governance Futures Season 1, hosts Jamilya and Eugene speak with Anke Liu, Governance Lead at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), about Neural Quorum Governance — a novel mechanism co-developed with BlockScience to make community funding more equitable, modular, and participatory.<br> <br> As the Ecosystem Growth Lead at the Stellar Development Foundation, Anke Liu (X: anke_g_liu) oversees programs and initiatives catalyzing innovation and expansion of the Stellar Ecosystem, including the Stellar Community Fund and the Stellar Ambassador Program. Her collaboration with BlockScience on the creation of Neural Quorum Governance paves the way for a ne...

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  Episode #17

  S.1 Ep.17 Security, DAOs, and Human Error: Threat Modeling Web3 with Isaac Patka

  Oct 30, 20251h 24mS0

  <p>In this episode of Governance Futures, hosts Jamilya and Eugene speak with Isaac Patka about the evolving landscape of security in decentralized systems. <br> <br> Isaac Patka is a developer and founder in the Ethereum ecosystem specializing in security and compliance infrastructure. He is the co-founder of Shield3, which conducts incident response training through Wargames exercises for major DeFi and infrastructure protocols, performs operational security audits including multisig configuration and infrastructure reviews, and builds policy and compliance infrastructure specifically for stablecoin projects. <br> <br> Isaac is also a founding member and initiative lead at the Security Alliance (SEAL), an...

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  Episode #16

  S.1 Ep. 16 Privacy, Solidarity, and the Future of Digital Governance with Dr. Joachim Schwerin

  Oct 23, 20251h 17mS0

  <p>In this episode of Governance Futures, hosts Jamilya and Eugene speak with Dr. Joachim Schwerin. <br> <br> Joachim Schwerin is PhD economist, blockchain expert and privacy activist with 35 years of experience in academia, the public sector and metapolitical networks. He is also Principal Economist in the unit in charge of Responsible Business Conduct within the Directorate-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) of the European Commission, where his current focus lies on developing positive framework conditions for DAOs and Web3. In the financial domain, he contributed to the EU’s Digital Finance Strategy, including the MiCA Regulation, an...

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  Episode #15

  S.1 Ep. 15 Calm Technology, DAO Games, & the Anthropology of Governance with Amber Case

  Oct 16, 20251h 15mS0

  <p >In this episode of Governance Futures, hosts Jamilya and Eugene speak with Amber Case (Cyborg Anthropologist), technologist, author, and founder of the Calm Technology Institute. <br> <br> Case explores how humans and technology co-evolve — a field she helped pioneer as one of the world’s leading voices in cyborg anthropology. The conversation dives into lessons from Case’s DAO Game, a simulation designed to help communities stress-test governance systems before launching. Drawing from Case's work on Calm Technology, Case explains why governance must account for human limits, how inclusive design mirrors ancient rituals, and why “design is governance.” The episode ex...

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  S.1 Ep. 14 Scaling Local: Culture, Decentralization, and the Science of Governance with Seth Frey

  Oct 9, 20251h 16mS0

  <p>In this episode of Governance Futures, hosts Jamilya and Eugene speak with Seth Frey, computational social scientist and researcher of governance, common pool resources, and online communities. Seth brings insights from years of studying how people self-organize — from Minecraft servers to DAOs — and explores what digital communities can learn from Ostrom’s theories of commons management. <br> <br> The conversation covers the roots of governance in human behavior, why DAOs struggle not from a lack of tools but from a lack of community managers, and why decentralization without culture leads to chaos. <br> <br> Seth shares lessons from online system...

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