DAOs
The token will be used to govern the DAO — and possibly to rouse activity in Solana DeFi
2023 saw a decline in a16z crypto funding, but the behemoth VC firm teased what it’s excited for next year
“Iran Unchained” launched a new version of its grant platform to make donations to activists easier
The existence — and even awareness — of DAOs has been limited to Web3. This next cycle can change that
DYDX supply will climb by up to 80% after the Friday unlock, but a couple factors make a massive sell-off appear unlikely
After a proposal passed to crimp inflation on Cosmos’ ATOM token, Kwon announced AtomOne — a “minimal fork” of the Cosmos Hub application.
The proposal’s author called the voting power boost for active delegates an experiment in accountability for DAOs
Blockworks exclusive: Spool is in talks with small and regional banks as well as one of the ten largest asset managers as it rolls out v2, the DAO’s lead contributor said
An exploiter tried to drain funds from Indexed Finance DAO but was caught after refusing to share the funds with a blackmailer
The staking program will let users lock ARB tokens for up to a year and receive yield — some in the DAO expressed inflation and regulatory concerns
“We have concluded that the shaky foundations underlying the current structure cannot be fixed,” the Aragon team wrote in a blog post
The DeFi protocol passed a temperature check to give $12 million to a Uniswap engineer-founded AMM in exchange for 20% of the project’s future governance token
An attacker proposed and voted in favor of a proposal to send treasury funds to their own wallet. DAO members didn’t realize until it was too late
The proposal’s opponents say Lido asked for too much money and the staking protocol creates a centralization risk for Ethereum
The high-spending DAO is seeing millions more dollars flow out of its treasury just weeks after losing $27 million
VitaDAO, which funds longevity research, announced the $300,000 financing of a biotechnology company, the DAO’s first such investment
DAO members have a week to vote on a list of 97 projects after the various proposals received well over a thousand forum replies
The major academic journal says DAOs are coming to science — and should be embraced by researchers
Seed Club founder Jess Sloss is excited to “open the doors and let other people see what we’ve been seeing for the last few months”
A yield aggregator that formerly boasted $70m in TVL is voting to close down operations
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