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Costs and Benefits: Thinking Through Legal Structures for DAOs
By: Salomé Bernhart Reviewed by: Nathan Vandy The field of cryptocurrencies is still relatively new. There were no decentralized digital currency assets before 2009 and no general smart contract platforms before 2015. Web3 has grown quickly and it is therefore important to consider potential and unpredictable developments in a rapidly evolving field when making recommendations on the proper legal treatment of Web3. DeFi faced a sudden upsurge of activity in 2020 and gained importance in the b...
Costs and Benefits: Thinking Through Legal Structures for DAOs
By: Salomé Bernhart Reviewed by: Nathan Vandy The field of cryptocurrencies is still relatively new. There were no decentralized digital currency assets before 2009 and no general smart contract platforms before 2015. Web3 has grown quickly and it is therefore important to consider potential and unpredictable developments in a rapidly evolving field when making recommendations on the proper legal treatment of Web3. DeFi faced a sudden upsurge of activity in 2020 and gained importance in the b...
Keep Your Enemies' Tokens
Image credit: Ken Flerlage This article is a guest post by Joey DeBruin with a contribution from PrimeDAO. Joey is a neuroscientist turned product builder, previously head of product at ResearchGate and currently the cofounder of Backdrop. Backdrop is a network that helps people discover and leverage the magic of tokenized communities.“Perverse incentives work like an ill-tempered genie, giving you exactly what you asked for but not necessarily what you wanted.” - Stuart Ritchie, “Science Fic...
Keep Your Enemies' Tokens
Image credit: Ken Flerlage This article is a guest post by Joey DeBruin with a contribution from PrimeDAO. Joey is a neuroscientist turned product builder, previously head of product at ResearchGate and currently the cofounder of Backdrop. Backdrop is a network that helps people discover and leverage the magic of tokenized communities.“Perverse incentives work like an ill-tempered genie, giving you exactly what you asked for but not necessarily what you wanted.” - Stuart Ritchie, “Science Fic...
The Next Stage of DAO Evolution: Networked Cooperation, Powered by Prime Deals
PrimeDAO: connecting the ecosystem DAOs to each other for networked cooperative ventures.New DAOs are coming online at an incredibly fast pace, across Solana, Ethereum, Celo, Gnosis, Cosmos, and more. These organizations are rapidly pushing the boundaries of coordination, contribution, verification, and what it means to be in community on the internet. In addition, many of these nascent crypto-networks aim to broadly finance ecosystem growth through their own protocol-level DAO treasuries. Fo...
The Next Stage of DAO Evolution: Networked Cooperation, Powered by Prime Deals
PrimeDAO: connecting the ecosystem DAOs to each other for networked cooperative ventures.New DAOs are coming online at an incredibly fast pace, across Solana, Ethereum, Celo, Gnosis, Cosmos, and more. These organizations are rapidly pushing the boundaries of coordination, contribution, verification, and what it means to be in community on the internet. In addition, many of these nascent crypto-networks aim to broadly finance ecosystem growth through their own protocol-level DAO treasuries. Fo...
Democratizing Credit Ratings: The “Big Three”, and possibilities for a decentralized future with Prime Rating
Writer: Mert Özdal Artwork: Numa Oliveira, “Ruins of Japanese banks reforested, under a blue sky” 2022, Dreaming on Machine via Pollinations.AI With the changes in the predominant global political-economic paradigm in the 1980s, commonly known as neoliberalism, the three major credit rating agencies, Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s (S&P), and Fitch, began to dominate the credit rating market and gain unprecedented power. These three agencies account for 95% of the market for cred...
Democratizing Credit Ratings: The “Big Three”, and possibilities for a decentralized future with Prime Rating
Writer: Mert Özdal Artwork: Numa Oliveira, “Ruins of Japanese banks reforested, under a blue sky” 2022, Dreaming on Machine via Pollinations.AI With the changes in the predominant global political-economic paradigm in the 1980s, commonly known as neoliberalism, the three major credit rating agencies, Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s (S&P), and Fitch, began to dominate the credit rating market and gain unprecedented power. These three agencies account for 95% of the market for cred...
