Tag: DAO
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Governance Project Uses ‘Contests’ to Help DAOs Improve Decisionmaking
Maker, Polygon and Aave Test Jokedao’s Humorous Approach to Governing
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SushiSwap May Overhaul its Entire Structure
Drama Builds at DEX as Members Weigh New Revenue Model
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SushiSwap ‘Head Chef’ May Pocket a Third of All Tokens Paid to Staff
Debate Running Hot as DAO Members Vote on Howard’s Hiring
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The Center Will Not Hold: How Decentralization is Reshaping Technology and Governance
Part One: A Convergence of Forces Disrupts the Logic of Centralization
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MakerDAO Jolts its Members with Bold Governance Proposals
Storied DeFi Player Struggles to Balance Growth and Decentralization
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0xsplits – Power Is Nothing Without Control
0xSplits is an open-source, audited, and non-upgradeable protocol for efficiently splitting onchain income. Whenever a Split receives funds, each recipient gets their share. Simple enough for friends, secure enough for anons.
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Blockchange Ventures’ Ken Seiff: Betting on Crypto’s Base Layer and a Multi-Chain Future
Section 1:10 Ken Seiff is the general partner of Blockchange Ventures, one of the longest standing venture funds focusing on early stage blockchain startups. One of his very first forays intor crypto was as one of the investors in Ethereum’s token sale, as I describe in my book, The Infinite Machine. He went on to […]
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Moverdao – A Metaverse Debit Card for Everyone. But How?
Metacard is the first metaverse savings card. It is an NFT card that is metaverse-ready, comes with automated DeFi Savings, and a crypto debit card.
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Giveth’s Griff Green: Super-Charging Public Goods and Charity With Crypto
Griff Green is one of the co-founders of Giveth, which aims to build the future of charity using the Ethereum blockchain. It wants to become the gateway for non-profit organizations into web3, giving them the tools to grow their own communities via DAOs and crypto. The primary source of revenue for any non-profit organization is donations, but relying […]
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Loomdart, Irene Zhao, So-col, Vector Meldrew & Peaceful Groupies – NFT Show
Starting this week, the NFT Show will become a weekly show.
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Terra Money + THORChain + Olympus Pro = Vader Protocol
Vader is a Liquidity Protocol anchored by a Native Stablecoin with Slip-Based Fees AMM, IL protection and Synthetics. DAO governed Protocol Owned Liquidity.
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Balancer DAO’s Treasury Is Rapidly Diversifying Across DeFi
The Balancer community has begun integrating itself with other decentralized finance protocols by trading its governance tokens for those of other DAOs, also known as treasury swaps.
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DAOs are Looking to Solve the Problem of Aggregation in Culture
The problem of aggregation, where rational actions at the individual level lead to an irrational outcome at the collective level is prevalent in macroeconomics and financial markets.
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Nick Johnson of ENS: “We Want to Be the Naming System for Every Digital Resource in the World”
In this week’s episode, Camilla Russo speaks with Nick Johnson, founder and lead developer of Ethereum Name Service, or ENS. Nick talks about the journey of ENS, from an internal project within the Ethereum Foundation, to spinning off to become a public good for Ethereum and other blockchains, and recently decentralizing and becoming a DAO controlled by […]
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ConstitutionDAO Members Decry High Gas Fees After Narrowly Losing Auction
ConstitutionDAO lost its bid for a copy of the founding charter of the United States.
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DAO Forms to Buy Original Print of the US Constitution for $20 Million
DAO raises $4.1M to buy US Constitution print.
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What Is a DAO? The Defiant Guide
Are DAOs the next trend in crypto? We’re taking a closer look into what DAOs are, how it works, how you can participate and get rewarded.
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Jam Session #9: What Makes Dao a Dao?
We are diving deep into DAO’s for this weeks Jam. Why are they so hot right now? Are they really a viable alternative to group funding? Big questions that our panel is here to answer! Stay tuned.
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What are Perpetual Pools and How to Earn 200% Apy by Staking in Tracer
Tracer is a new infrastructure play on DeFi. By enabling the creation of financial contract templates in the Tracer Factory, it allows anyone to create markets for any asset using any of the installed templates.
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Beat the DROPS with Barnbridge’s SMART Alpha
SMART Alpha allows users to calibrate their exposure to the performance of an underlying asset. It does so by regularly redistributing an aggregated pool of the underlying asset between two groups of users: a senior side, and a junior side. When price goes up, seniors give up some of their assets to the juniors, and […]
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“NFTs are Giving Way to The First Art Revolution Since the Internet:” SuperRare’s John Crain
In this week’s episode, I speak with John Crain, the co-founder & CEO of SuperRare, one of the top NFT marketplaces. SuperRare wants to differentiate itself by being the NFT marketplace that best curates art, specifically. John believes the natural evolution for NFT platforms will be to specialize in verticals. For example, the interface for art should […]
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How to Use Karuraswap
Trading is now live on Karura Swap, the First Decentralized Exchange in the Polkadot & Kusama Ecosystem. Karura Swap has opened trading for the KSM/KAR pair, which currently has $3,410,992.00 in Total Value Locked thanks to Karura Swap’s “Bootstrap” mechanism.
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Bare Knuckle Governance, Tales From the Streets ($UNI, $SUSHI $ADDY)
Governance has been dominating the conversation in recent weeks as DAO’s explode out of every orifice and big money decisions grip the communities of Sushiswap and Uniswap. Adamant shocked everyone by attempting to blacklist the wallets of Alameda Research. What’s going on in this new era of gloves off governance behaviour and what is a16z […]
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BasketDAO’s Brand New BMI Stablecoin Product Aims to Revolutionise Treasury Management
BMI is an index of stablecoin yield farms from BasketDAO. It’s automatically rebalanced monthly to ensure that yields are high and risk is diversified.
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Treasury Troubles Solved: with the UMA range Token
A year ago we were all aping into DeFi farms hunting those precious governance tokens because, you know, NUMBER GO UP. Governance was basically seen as a LARP, a way to shank idiots into believing money really could be conjoured out of thin air. But I’ve become increasingly aware of grumbling around governance, particularly when […]
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Railgun: The New Weapon in Privacy
RAILGUN secures privacy for DEX trading and lending. Built without any bridge or layer-2, RAILGUN is a smart contract system that gives zk-SNARK privacy to any transaction or smart contract interaction on Ethereum.
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“There Will be Billion-Dollar Communities on the Internet:” Jess Sloss
In this week’s episode we speak with Jess Sloss, the instigator of Seed Club, a DAO that builds and invests in community tokens. We talk about the emergence of the social token economy, and how that’s different from the creator economy or the gig economy; the difference is that social tokens and DAOs allow individuals to create […]
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“Having Legal Tender in a Currency You Cannot Control Means You Cannot Print Problems Away:” Mariano Conti
In this week’s episode I speak with Mariano Conti, the former head of smart contracts at MakerDAO. Mariano knows the value of having permissionless and uncensorable currencies first hand —he started earning in Bitcoin in 2014 in Argentina because pesos would instantly lose value and it was hard to get dollars. When he learned about Ethereum […]
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“Collector DAOs Are Going to be a Game-Changer for the NFT Space:” pplpleasr
In this week’s episode we talk with the DeFi artist of the moment. Pplpleasr got into DeFi drawn in by the crazy yields but really stayed when she resonated with the community —the gaming-like, niche subculture of memes and internet-native humor. She started making videos for many DeFi teams, from Yeran to Pickle Finance. Her latest and […]
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“We Were Idiots and We Were Poor; Then From Mid 2020 to Now, Suddenly, We’re Right: ” Ameen Soleimani
In this week’s episode I interview Ameen Soleimani, one of the most prolific builders in Ethereum. He’s the CEO of SpankChain, a blockchain-based adult entertainment platform, the co-creator of MolochDAO, a DAO to fund Ethereum projects, and the co-founder of Reflexer Labs, which created RAI, a purely ether-backed stablecoin. We talk about the need of a purely […]