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Venkatesh Rao outlines the Protocol Institute's research mission as a newly formed organization funded by the Ethereum Foundation to advance protocol science. The core job is to channel resources from funders to researchers and groups doing work that contributes to the broader process of protocolization.
Venkatesh Rao
The Protocol Institute launches as a new organization dedicated to advancing protocol design, analysis, and stewardship across domains, with Protocolized magazine as its flagship publication. The institute inherits work from the Summer of Protocols program (2023-2025) and aims to build a field and global community capable of stewarding planetary-scale protocolization—the process by which human behaviors become standardized into civilization's coordinating infrastructure.
Timber Stinson-Schroff
The Protocol Fiction Special Interest Group convened to explore how protocol fiction functions as a tool for observing how rules, standards, and institutions shape experience and constrain narrative possibilities. Rather than focusing on individual characters, the group examined stories that distribute agency across environments, procedures, and interfaces to make visible the background logic of systems.
Sachin Benny