Nathan Schneider

Nathan Schneider is a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he directs the Media Economies Design Lab. He edited Vitalik Buterin's book Proof of Stake and has written a series of books on democratic and cooperative alternatives to platform capitalism, including Everything for Everyone and Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life. He sits on the board of Metagov, a research group studying governance mechanisms for online communities and decentralized autonomous organizations. His ETHBoulder 2026 talk traces the move from code-based governance rules toward constitutional frameworks for AI and onchain agents.

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