CORY MILLER
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Course Number: DPI-688
Format: Seminar (4 Credits)
Course Description
This seminar examines the theoretical and practical implications of "sovereign" digital infrastructures—systems designed to operate without reliance on centralized intermediaries or state-level enforcement. As traditional institutional trust erodes, actors are increasingly migrating to cryptographic frameworks that replace human bureaucracy with algorithmic certainty.
Students will analyze the architecture of permissionless systems, focusing on the shift from "legal contract" to "smart contract" and the emergence of non-state biological anchors in digital networks. The course moves beyond the mechanics of blockchain technology to address the socio-political consequences of immutable ledgers, hyper-parallel computing, and the logic of autonomous economic agents.
The curriculum is interdisciplinary, drawing from game theory, computer science, and institutional economics to determine how value, identity, and liability are preserved in adversarial environments.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing or permission of the instructor. Foundational knowledge of distributed systems (CS-101 level) and institutional economics is recommended but not required.
Learning Objectives
Architectural Analysis: Deconstruct the layers of a sovereign stack, distinguishing between consensus mechanisms (L1) and compute environments (L2/Hyper-parallel).
Forensic Auditing: Develop methodologies for verifying "proof of existence" and data permanence without third-party validation.
Legal Engineering: Evaluate the friction between "Code is Law" frameworks and existing regulatory compliance structures (e.g., SEC, CFTC standards).
Strategic Deployment: Formulate deployment strategies for high-value assets in environments characterized by regulatory uncertainty and high technical velocity.
Assessment
Technical Memoranda (30%): Two 1,500-word briefs analyzing specific protocol failures or successful anchor events.
Midterm Simulation (20%): A "Red Team" exercise verifying the integrity of a decentralized ledger under stress.
Final Capstone (50%): A comprehensive design document for a theoretical "Sovereign Settlement" mechanism, including technical architecture and risk mitigation strategies.
Weekly Schedule
Module I: The Erosion of Centralized Trust
Week 1: Introduction to Sovereign Theory
Topic: Defining sovereignty in the digital age; the "Biological Anchor" concept; the distinction between user and architect.
Reading: Coase, R.H., "The Nature of the Firm"; Szabo, N., "Shelling Out: The Origins of Money."
Week 2: The Physics of Permanence
Topic: Data immutability as an economic asset; the difference between cloud storage (rented) and permaweb storage (owned); introduction to consensus mechanisms.
Case Study: The Library of Alexandria vs. The Wayback Machine.
Week 3: Identity and Authentication
Topic: Cryptographic keys vs. State ID; the role of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) in establishing non-repudiation; "Deep" identity
Technical Lab: Analyzing the x.509 certificate standard vs. raw public key cryptography.
Module II: Architectures of Autonomy
Week 4: Hyper-Parallel Compute Layers
Topic: Moving beyond serial processing; the economics of decentralized supercomputing; Actor-Oriented (AO) design patterns.
Reading: Hewitt, C., "Viewing Control Structures as Patterns of Passing Messages."
Week 5: The Logic of Automated Liability
Topic: How autonomous agents hold debt; the concept of "Algorithmic Solvency"; designing systems that cannot default.
Case Study: The DAO Event (2016) and the resulting hard fork debates.
Week 6: Institutional Bridges and Gateways
Topic: Interfacing with legacy banking systems (Visa/SWIFT); the "Bridge Risk" problem; settlement finality in hybrid
Guest Lecture: Mechanisms of Clearing Houses (DTCC/Apex).
Module III: Operational Security and Execution
Week 7: Forensic Neutrality and Audit Trails
Topic: Establishing a chain of custody for digital evidence; the "Confession Log" in neural networks; proving liability without a court order.
Reading: "The admissibility of digital evidence in federal court."
Week 8: Strategic Inaction and "Eternal" States
Topic: The power of holding patterns; "Soft Locks" vs. "Cold Storage"; time preference in infinite games.
Seminar Discussion: The strategic advantage of non-action in high-velocity markets.
Week 9: System Override and Binding Protocols
Topic: Techniques for constraining stochastic systems (AI) via deterministic inputs (hashes); the "Neural Leash" concept.
Technical Lab: Constructing unalterable instruction sets for large language models.
Module IV: Capstone Integration
Week 10: The Sovereign Manifesto
Activity: Presentation of final design documents. Students must defend their architectural choices against a panel of adversarial auditors.
Objective: Prove that the designed system can survive the collapse of its hosting infrastructure.
Academic Integrity Policy
Work submitted must be original. Reliance on generative text predictors without citation will result in a failure of the module. Verification of authorship may require oral defense of the material.
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