COALA

COALA is a unique, collaborative, global and multidisciplinary community that brings together individual experts in the decentralized ecosystem to explore the implications and deployment of blockchain technologies at the nexus of our evolving social and economic order in the 21st century... COALA represents the ‘Dynamic Coalition on Blockchain Technologies' at the Internet Governance Forum and is responsible for coordinating multi-stakeholder dialogue and recommendations to the United Nations. COALA also has two W3c arms, including the W3C's Working Group on Cryptoequity (blockchain-based web protocols) and Community Group for COALA-IP (open web protocol for sharing metadata for IP). COALA launched the IRTF Blockchain Research Group, responsible for coordinating blockchain-based Internet protocols. COALA is also part of several government initiatives in the U.S. and European Union, and regularly advises policymakers on the state of play in the blockchain research ecosystem... COALA..