Technology is not neutral. Code encodes authority.
Every digital system makes assumptions about identity, power and value – who is recognised as an agent, who can act, and how coordination is enforced. My work operates at this structural layer, where law, governance, decentralised infrastructure and machine-mediated systems converge.
I design identity and governance architectures for decentralised networks and institutional contexts. My focus is legitimacy: how systems can scale coordination without eroding human agency. This includes status-first identity frameworks, delegation and revocation semantics, and AI-aware ontologies that distinguish between originators of authority and synthetic agents acting within defined constraints.
In decentralised governance, I move beyond token voting toward multi-layered coordination models. Through the development of a Human Rights DAO model, I have explored how participation, stewardship and accountability can be encoded into durable governance systems rather than speculative cycles. Across tokenomics, I treat incentives and ontologies as infrastructure. Incentive structures shape behaviour. Ontologies shape interpretation. Both must be designed consciously, especially as AI systems begin to participate in economic and civic life.
My work also extends into DePIN and spatial systems – examining how decentralised physical infrastructure networks and location-aware technologies reshape resource allocation, access and civic participation. Spatial coordination is governance in material form. It requires identity clarity, incentive alignment and transparent rule-sets.
This technological work is grounded in community activation and cultural production. Systems do not live on-chain alone. They live through people, places and practice.
The through-line is coherence across law, culture and code – building infrastructures capable of memory, plurality and accountable coordination in an increasingly machine-mediated world.
This work includes:
– Identity-layer frameworks
– Role-based delegation models
– Governance token architectures
– Semantic constraints for AI agents
– Spatial coordination systems for community infrastructure
Some Key Projects below:
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SILT is a long-term research and infrastructure project concerned with a deceptively simple question:
How is a person recognised as capable of acting, consenting, and binding themselves or others in law?
Modern identity systems rarely ask this directly. They assume legitimacy has already been settled somewhere else.
SILT moves upstream.