Token engineering is a multidisciplinary field for building safer, more resilient blockchain systems. It brings engineering discipline to the design, verification, and optimization of these complex new forms of economic coordination.

When you support token engineering, you’re helping to build an important new form of public goods. Civil engineering exists so people can feel safe crossing a bridge at rush hour without having to read its blueprints. Token engineering serves a similar role for complex crypto-economic systems. It builds an engineering-backed assurance layer that enables us trust that these systems are safe and that they will do what they say they do. This newly emerging discipline is critical to fostering the public trust needed for widespread adoption of Web3 technologies.

Since the opening of its bonding curve in January 2021, the Token Engineering Commons (TEC) has granted $460,000 to token engineering projects. The TEC funded the development of the Token Engineering Academy’s free Token Engineering Fundamentals course and its research into tooling for AI-powered token engineering. It has also provided critical funding to the Inverter Network’s open library of programmable workflows, the Bonding Curve Research Group, and CadCAD simulation tooling, among many other projects.

You don’t have to be a token engineering expert to help build this powerful new form of public goods. The TEC’s community of researchers, students, and practitioners help direct funding to where it will have the biggest impact on this emerging field. We’re also doing some interesting experiments in augmenting Quadratic Funding with Subject Matter Expertise in our current Gitcoin-featured Token Engineering Grants Round.

Please join us in supporting this critical new public goods infrastructure for ushering in a new era of human coordination!