Welcome to (anon), the only DAO newsletter whose entire editorial staff is dying, in slow nihilistic, and decentralized agony.

Consensys, more fondly known as the “Centralized Ethereum Illuminati,” has been infiltrating the DAO ecosystem for the past year. Their Chief DAO Operator recently took to Twitter to discuss their covert tactics and highlight how they were able to penetrate the tightly wound circle-jerk that is the DAO ecosystem.

The nerve.

https://twitter.com/mateo_ventures/status/1576690839551549440?s=20&t=Zq1TLYJqcScSgpxltM2WHA

Not only are they bringing their corporate vibes to the beloved DAOverse, but they’re also doing it by, actually contributing to DAOs, disgusting. 

Adding insult to injury, Consensys teamed up with Bankless (not PubDAO!) to create a learning path for Consensys employees to begin understanding what working in a DAO looks like. They recently birthed a proposal on the Bankless forum that states:

“ConsenSys is seeking the opportunity to onboard some of their employees to the Bankless DAO in order to help the DAO across various guilds and projects, allowing their employees to learn how to effectively explore DAO culture, experiment with external contribution in the DAO community and continuously provide value to the wider Ethereum ecosystem.”

The partnership with Bankless is a part of a greater play to launch a new program called “DAOlationships.” (Yeah, I don’t coin these terms, I’m just a humble reporter, folks.) Bankless is their first victim, but it looks like it won’t be their last. I just hope they aren’t headed for a DAOsaster. Or a DAOtasrophe.

https://twitter.com/mateo_ventures/status/1576690862758584322?s=20&t=xPoSdj41VnQKf03NU6mZVA

In fairness, moving toward decentralizing Consensys is an interesting move and one that they’ve apparently spent a year preparing for so far. It’d be a shame if the CFTC were to set a precedent that challenged the use of DAOs as viable ways to skirt liability.

https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1577633697821560832?s=20&t=xPoSdj41VnQKf03NU6mZVA

Moonbirds just announced the launch of Moonbirds DAO, and are funding the treasury with $2.6 million USD worth of Ethereum and NFTs.

https://twitter.com/moonbirds/status/1576997308356444160?s=20&t=05C6mWeQe8DZszWl1QX5gg

The news was well received by the Moonbirds community. I spoke to an anonymous  Moonbird holder just this morning and he claimed that the decision was made with the feedback and inclusion of the Moonbird holders.

In case you forgot, one of the last big Moonbirds announcements was the surprise decision to make all the NFT artwork fall under Creative Commons licensing– meaning people don’t even need to tell you when they right-click-save your NFTs.

While Moonbirds holders are optimistic, there are plenty of ways to screw up a DAO. However, with other NFT DAOs like Apecoin repeatedly dropping the decentralization ball (as covered in previous issues of anon), the bar for “quality” isn’t set too high.

Look, do I think Tron DAO is a real DAO? No

Am I willing to do any research into Tron DAO at all? No

But I’ll be damned (DAOmned?) if I didn’t take this opportunity to share this tweet with minimal context:

https://twitter.com/JonathanHillis/status/1577727265760317498?s=20&t=XD38-fzyhGmIwl6_MpNPpg

Welcome to (anon), the only DAO newsletter whose entire editorial staff is dying, in slow nihilistic, and decentralized agony.

Consensys, more fondly known as the “Centralized Ethereum Illuminati,” has been infiltrating the DAO ecosystem for the past year. Their Chief DAO Operator recently took to Twitter to discuss their covert tactics and highlight how they were able to penetrate the tightly wound circle-jerk that is the DAO ecosystem.

The nerve.

https://twitter.com/mateo_ventures/status/1576690839551549440?s=20&t=Zq1TLYJqcScSgpxltM2WHA

Not only are they bringing their corporate vibes to the beloved DAOverse, but they’re also doing it by, actually contributing to DAOs, disgusting. 

Adding insult to injury, Consensys teamed up with Bankless (not PubDAO!) to create a learning path for Consensys employees to begin understanding what working in a DAO looks like. They recently birthed a proposal on the Bankless forum that states:

“ConsenSys is seeking the opportunity to onboard some of their employees to the Bankless DAO in order to help the DAO across various guilds and projects, allowing their employees to learn how to effectively explore DAO culture, experiment with external contribution in the DAO community and continuously provide value to the wider Ethereum ecosystem.”

The partnership with Bankless is a part of a greater play to launch a new program called “DAOlationships.” (Yeah, I don’t coin these terms, I’m just a humble reporter, folks.) Bankless is their first victim, but it looks like it won’t be their last. I just hope they aren’t headed for a DAOsaster. Or a DAOtasrophe.

https://twitter.com/mateo_ventures/status/1576690862758584322?s=20&t=xPoSdj41VnQKf03NU6mZVA

In fairness, moving toward decentralizing Consensys is an interesting move and one that they’ve apparently spent a year preparing for so far. It’d be a shame if the CFTC were to set a precedent that challenged the use of DAOs as viable ways to skirt liability.

https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1577633697821560832?s=20&t=xPoSdj41VnQKf03NU6mZVA

Moonbirds just announced the launch of Moonbirds DAO, and are funding the treasury with $2.6 million USD worth of Ethereum and NFTs.

https://twitter.com/moonbirds/status/1576997308356444160?s=20&t=05C6mWeQe8DZszWl1QX5gg

The news was well received by the Moonbirds community. I spoke to an anonymous  Moonbird holder just this morning and he claimed that the decision was made with the feedback and inclusion of the Moonbird holders.

In case you forgot, one of the last big Moonbirds announcements was the surprise decision to make all the NFT artwork fall under Creative Commons licensing– meaning people don’t even need to tell you when they right-click-save your NFTs.

While Moonbirds holders are optimistic, there are plenty of ways to screw up a DAO. However, with other NFT DAOs like Apecoin repeatedly dropping the decentralization ball (as covered in previous issues of anon), the bar for “quality” isn’t set too high.

Look, do I think Tron DAO is a real DAO? No

Am I willing to do any research into Tron DAO at all? No

But I’ll be damned (DAOmned?) if I didn’t take this opportunity to share this tweet with minimal context:

https://twitter.com/JonathanHillis/status/1577727265760317498?s=20&t=XD38-fzyhGmIwl6_MpNPpg