Economic & Market Infrastructure · 2026-06-24

Municipal Tokens as Urban Policy Tools: The Case of LVGA and the MyLugano App

P2P Financial Systems International Workshop

The paper establishes LVGA and MyLugano as municipal market infrastructure rather than a blockchain novelty. Its unresolved governance problem is that programmability increases the city's power to steer eligibility, spending, visibility, identity, and merchant participation, but the paper does not yet specify the enforceable controls, appeal rights, exclusion metrics, or fiscal accountability needed for legitimate urban infrastructure.

Economic & Market Infrastructure · 2026-04-16

Mapping India’s Data Centres: Aspirations, Realities and Futures

Digital Futures Lab

The report’s core contribution is to show that India’s data-centre buildout is not a neutral scaling exercise but a governance choice that reallocates water, energy, land, subsidy, and political priority toward compute infrastructure without yet building the disclosure, accountability, and redress mechanisms needed to legitimate that shift.

Economic & Market Infrastructure · 2026-03-07

The Value of Open Source AI for the Canadian Economy

Linux Foundation Research

The report frames open models as economic infrastructure for reducing adoption costs and dependence, but it does not specify the governance conditions under which openness becomes public capacity rather than a subsidy for dominant model providers.