Uniswap, the leading decentralized exchange on Ethereum, has long embraced the idea of deploying on many chains. Bringing Uniswap’s advantages — fast transactions and low fees among them — to the wide world of other chains is almost universally seen as a net good. Uniswap v3 already exists on Arbitrum, Celo, Optimism, and Polygon, and there are others under consideration. With Uniswap v3 subject to a business license until April of this year, a little time still remains to deploy to new chain...

Uniswap, the leading decentralized exchange on Ethereum, has long embraced the idea of deploying on many chains. Bringing Uniswap’s advantages — fast transactions and low fees among them — to the wide world of other chains is almost universally seen as a net good. Uniswap v3 already exists on Arbitrum, Celo, Optimism, and Polygon, and there are others under consideration. With Uniswap v3 subject to a business license until April of this year, a little time still remains to deploy to new chain...

TLDR: Builder DAO, the protocol that makes it easy to deploy Nouns-like DAOs, has voted to fund a team of operators building composable web packages. These web packages provide DAOs with a common template for useful front-end components that can be repurposed and reused as needed.The Nouns ecosystem is being driven forward by a growing list of unique projects and protocols that help to proliferate the brand in various ways. One such project is the Nouns Builder DAO, which was incubated by Zor...

TLDR: Builder DAO, the protocol that makes it easy to deploy Nouns-like DAOs, has voted to fund a team of operators building composable web packages. These web packages provide DAOs with a common template for useful front-end components that can be repurposed and reused as needed.The Nouns ecosystem is being driven forward by a growing list of unique projects and protocols that help to proliferate the brand in various ways. One such project is the Nouns Builder DAO, which was incubated by Zor...

TLDR: The Decentraland DAO considers strategies to rebalance voting power and broaden voter participation.Decentraland describes itself as the “first-ever virtual world owned by its users.” It is a metaverse that puts itself forward as a “public good” in contrast to the many virtual (and IRL) private goods already in existence. As its name and vision would suggest, Decentraland has a DAO, one which has taken several different forms over the years, moving back and forth from off-chain to on-ch...

TLDR: The Decentraland DAO considers strategies to rebalance voting power and broaden voter participation.Decentraland describes itself as the “first-ever virtual world owned by its users.” It is a metaverse that puts itself forward as a “public good” in contrast to the many virtual (and IRL) private goods already in existence. As its name and vision would suggest, Decentraland has a DAO, one which has taken several different forms over the years, moving back and forth from off-chain to on-ch...

TLDR: Paladin, the governance token lending protocol, is voting to improve its current governance framework to further align the system with the current needs of the DAO. Custom governance frameworks provide DAOs such as Paladin with a flexible and adaptable way to govern their operations and make decisions, allowing them to respond quickly to changing circumstances and better serve the needs of their users.Paladin Lending was launched on Ethereum Mainnet in September of 2021 with the stated ...

TLDR: Paladin, the governance token lending protocol, is voting to improve its current governance framework to further align the system with the current needs of the DAO. Custom governance frameworks provide DAOs such as Paladin with a flexible and adaptable way to govern their operations and make decisions, allowing them to respond quickly to changing circumstances and better serve the needs of their users.Paladin Lending was launched on Ethereum Mainnet in September of 2021 with the stated ...

TLDR: Developer DAO is hard at work refining its governance structures, which includes simplifying its process known as DDIP to increase participation and engagement.Suffering from highly-motivated membership leads early-stage DAOs to develop transparent and effective processes that permit ideas and changes to occur more fluidly. Keeping this process up to date based on the growing needs of the organization makes them nimble and productive regardless of externalities. At Developer DAO, the so...

TLDR: Developer DAO is hard at work refining its governance structures, which includes simplifying its process known as DDIP to increase participation and engagement.Suffering from highly-motivated membership leads early-stage DAOs to develop transparent and effective processes that permit ideas and changes to occur more fluidly. Keeping this process up to date based on the growing needs of the organization makes them nimble and productive regardless of externalities. At Developer DAO, the so...

Optimism is a layer 2 scaling protocol built on the Ethereum network that aims to provide faster and cheaper transactions for decentralized applications and smart contracts. Optimism is also known for its strong, public goods-oriented ethos, which is epitomized by the phrase “impact = profit.” One of Optimism’s key features is its two-house governance system: The Token House allows those who hold (or are delegated) the OP token to vote on proposals in areas such as grants funding and protocol...

Optimism is a layer 2 scaling protocol built on the Ethereum network that aims to provide faster and cheaper transactions for decentralized applications and smart contracts. Optimism is also known for its strong, public goods-oriented ethos, which is epitomized by the phrase “impact = profit.” One of Optimism’s key features is its two-house governance system: The Token House allows those who hold (or are delegated) the OP token to vote on proposals in areas such as grants funding and protocol...

TLDR: Multi-chain oriented DeFi platform ShapeShift plans to include more features and more chains in the coming months.ShapeShift is an open-source, multi-chain DeFi platform focused on user self-sovereignty. It is non-custodial and community “owned.” The Shapeshift DAO is governed by FOX token holders, who vote on the various proposals that determine ShapeShift’s direction and operation. ShapeShift DAO has recently released a roadmap — “debated and discussed” over time — that details ambiti...

TLDR: Multi-chain oriented DeFi platform ShapeShift plans to include more features and more chains in the coming months.ShapeShift is an open-source, multi-chain DeFi platform focused on user self-sovereignty. It is non-custodial and community “owned.” The Shapeshift DAO is governed by FOX token holders, who vote on the various proposals that determine ShapeShift’s direction and operation. ShapeShift DAO has recently released a roadmap — “debated and discussed” over time — that details ambiti...

TLDR: The 1inch DAO voted to reduce the length of its (pre-implementation) governance process from a minimum of 12 days to a minimum of 8 days.The 1inch Network describes itself as providing “one-stop access to decentralized finance.” The network itself is a collection of protocols, the first of which was a DEX aggregator that “searches deals across multiple liquidity sources, offering users better rates than any individual exchange.” The network also includes an Aggregator Protocol, a Liquid...

TLDR: The 1inch DAO voted to reduce the length of its (pre-implementation) governance process from a minimum of 12 days to a minimum of 8 days.The 1inch Network describes itself as providing “one-stop access to decentralized finance.” The network itself is a collection of protocols, the first of which was a DEX aggregator that “searches deals across multiple liquidity sources, offering users better rates than any individual exchange.” The network also includes an Aggregator Protocol, a Liquid...

TLDR: Decentralized credit protocol Goldfinch affirms the importance of community management by funding the roles of Community Manager and Community Moderator.Goldfinch is a decentralized credit protocol whose primary focus is to enable crypto loans that are collateralized off-chain (that is, with non-crypto assets). This supports Goldfinch’s mission of expanding “access to capital by creating a single global credit marketplace.” As the protocol’s documentation points out, while most DeFi pro...

TLDR: Decentralized credit protocol Goldfinch affirms the importance of community management by funding the roles of Community Manager and Community Moderator.Goldfinch is a decentralized credit protocol whose primary focus is to enable crypto loans that are collateralized off-chain (that is, with non-crypto assets). This supports Goldfinch’s mission of expanding “access to capital by creating a single global credit marketplace.” As the protocol’s documentation points out, while most DeFi pro...

TLDR: MakerDAO reconsiders its partnership with Gemini, which has been paying the DAO a “marketing incentive” to increase its usage of their stablecoin GUSD.Maker is the DeFi protocol behind DAI, a stablecoin referred to as “the world’s first unbiased currency,” currently pegged to the U.S. dollar. DAI’s peg is maintained in part by the Peg Stability Module (PSM), which allows users to “swap other stablecoins for DAI at a fixed rate.” The fees generated from these swaps go directly to Maker’s...

TLDR: MakerDAO reconsiders its partnership with Gemini, which has been paying the DAO a “marketing incentive” to increase its usage of their stablecoin GUSD.Maker is the DeFi protocol behind DAI, a stablecoin referred to as “the world’s first unbiased currency,” currently pegged to the U.S. dollar. DAI’s peg is maintained in part by the Peg Stability Module (PSM), which allows users to “swap other stablecoins for DAI at a fixed rate.” The fees generated from these swaps go directly to Maker’s...

TLDR: Euler’s DAO seeks to provide more clarity and structure to its developing governance systems.Non-custodial, permissionless lending protocol Euler was originally founded by Euler Labs and has since been following the path of progressive decentralization. Now with an active DAO, Euler follows a fairly typical governance process that relies on Discourse, Discord, and Snapshot to debate ideas, surface prevailing sentiment, and rally the community to vote for (or against) changes to the prot...

TLDR: Euler’s DAO seeks to provide more clarity and structure to its developing governance systems.Non-custodial, permissionless lending protocol Euler was originally founded by Euler Labs and has since been following the path of progressive decentralization. Now with an active DAO, Euler follows a fairly typical governance process that relies on Discourse, Discord, and Snapshot to debate ideas, surface prevailing sentiment, and rally the community to vote for (or against) changes to the prot...

TLDR: Hop protocol will in future use fees to support the costs of running the DAO while directing 10% of those fees to (non Hop affiliated) public-goods funding.Hop is a protocol that "allows users to send tokens from one rollup to another almost immediately" through its "scalable rollup-to-rollup general token bridge." While the protocol first went live on mainnet in July of 2021, a number of improvements to both its service and its governance process were recently introduced to the DAO. In...

TLDR: Hop protocol will in future use fees to support the costs of running the DAO while directing 10% of those fees to (non Hop affiliated) public-goods funding.Hop is a protocol that "allows users to send tokens from one rollup to another almost immediately" through its "scalable rollup-to-rollup general token bridge." While the protocol first went live on mainnet in July of 2021, a number of improvements to both its service and its governance process were recently introduced to the DAO. In...