TLDR: SafeDAO, a newly formed DAO, is experimenting with a participation agreement for its community that would define its participants, limit their liability, provide a mutual release from claims arising with the DAO, and create a complaint and resolution procedure. The proposal would have interested parties enter into a legal agreement with the DAO to protect themselves and SafeDAO.SafeDAO is experimenting with a novel legal agreement for its newly formed DAO structure in hopes of protectin...

TLDR: SafeDAO, a newly formed DAO, is experimenting with a participation agreement for its community that would define its participants, limit their liability, provide a mutual release from claims arising with the DAO, and create a complaint and resolution procedure. The proposal would have interested parties enter into a legal agreement with the DAO to protect themselves and SafeDAO.SafeDAO is experimenting with a novel legal agreement for its newly formed DAO structure in hopes of protectin...

Business-to-DAO is growing to be a valuable business development strategy. This is reflected in the large number of forum posts and proposals looking to push B2D initiativesBusinesses, service providers, and other crypto startups are turning to protocol and DAO governance more often as a business development strategy, hoping to leverage underutilized treasuries to build solutions, provide consulting services, and become contributing stakeholders in these communities. Many of them have built a...

Business-to-DAO is growing to be a valuable business development strategy. This is reflected in the large number of forum posts and proposals looking to push B2D initiativesBusinesses, service providers, and other crypto startups are turning to protocol and DAO governance more often as a business development strategy, hoping to leverage underutilized treasuries to build solutions, provide consulting services, and become contributing stakeholders in these communities. Many of them have built a...

DAOs GMIWe are all witnessing firsthand an incredible shift in the way we work and organize. As activity and value shift into the digital realm, distributed community and stakeholder coordination become ever more important. Crafty communities have figured that governance frameworks provide flexible and enforceable rules that enable anyone to coordinate and work towards any common goal with aligned incentives, and we couldn’t be more excited to support them on the Boardroom platform.A New Dash...

DAOs GMIWe are all witnessing firsthand an incredible shift in the way we work and organize. As activity and value shift into the digital realm, distributed community and stakeholder coordination become ever more important. Crafty communities have figured that governance frameworks provide flexible and enforceable rules that enable anyone to coordinate and work towards any common goal with aligned incentives, and we couldn’t be more excited to support them on the Boardroom platform.A New Dash...

Featuring a case study of Instadapp's governance portal on Boardroom Boardroom's mission is to make governance more efficient and effective for cryptonetworks and DAOs, which we believe represent a revolution in organizational design that will uproot traditional management and ownership structures.Over the past 12 months, the number of DAOs has increased dramatically, growing alongside and underpinning the DeFi and NFT booms that have made waves in mainstream culture. More important...

Featuring a case study of Instadapp's governance portal on Boardroom Boardroom's mission is to make governance more efficient and effective for cryptonetworks and DAOs, which we believe represent a revolution in organizational design that will uproot traditional management and ownership structures.Over the past 12 months, the number of DAOs has increased dramatically, growing alongside and underpinning the DeFi and NFT booms that have made waves in mainstream culture. More important...

How the DeFi Blueprint Aligns Market Incentives with Societal ValuesBy Sam McCarthy *Part 2 of a 2 part essay series on the current state of decentralized governance in crypto. This essay follows “Make Decentralized Governance Great (Again?).” Decentralized governance implemented through DAOs encourages open participation in the development of the DeFi industry. By either purchasing or earning governance tokens, actors not only have the opportunity to share in the risk and reward associated w...

How the DeFi Blueprint Aligns Market Incentives with Societal ValuesBy Sam McCarthy *Part 2 of a 2 part essay series on the current state of decentralized governance in crypto. This essay follows “Make Decentralized Governance Great (Again?).” Decentralized governance implemented through DAOs encourages open participation in the development of the DeFi industry. By either purchasing or earning governance tokens, actors not only have the opportunity to share in the risk and reward associated w...

Crypto runs on DAOs. Underlying every major trend in the crypto ecosystem - from DeFi to NFTs - are DAOs and decentralized governance.As crypto continues to bleed into mainstream consciousness and accumulates talent and resources to disrupt existing industries, it is now more important than ever to build with the tools needed for DAOs and decentralized governance to function more efficiently and effectively. That's why we're excited to announce the Decentralized Governance Hackathon...

Crypto runs on DAOs. Underlying every major trend in the crypto ecosystem - from DeFi to NFTs - are DAOs and decentralized governance.As crypto continues to bleed into mainstream consciousness and accumulates talent and resources to disrupt existing industries, it is now more important than ever to build with the tools needed for DAOs and decentralized governance to function more efficiently and effectively. That's why we're excited to announce the Decentralized Governance Hackathon...

Boardroom is a management platform built for DAOs, helping their members frictionlessly participate in their governance. Our mission is to make coordination more efficient and effective for crypto communities. As part of that mission, we want to help improve access to basic DAO information.Members Suffer from Information OverloadAccess to and curation of DAO information is crucial to ensure effective participation by all types of community members and stakeholders. The rapid proliferation of ...

Boardroom is a management platform built for DAOs, helping their members frictionlessly participate in their governance. Our mission is to make coordination more efficient and effective for crypto communities. As part of that mission, we want to help improve access to basic DAO information.Members Suffer from Information OverloadAccess to and curation of DAO information is crucial to ensure effective participation by all types of community members and stakeholders. The rapid proliferation of ...

By: Duncan DobbelmanTL;DR: OokiDAO has put forward a proposal to allocate DAO treasury funds to support a legal defense for its community members.Ooki is a DeFi protocol that describes itself as “a financial primitive for shorting, leverage, borrowing, and lending that empowers decentralized, efficient, and rent-free blockchain.” Ooki DAO governs the protocol; at the time of writing, the DAO has ~$7.2m in its treasury. Ooki evolved from bZx protocol, which was created by bZeroX, a limited lia...

By: Duncan DobbelmanTL;DR: OokiDAO has put forward a proposal to allocate DAO treasury funds to support a legal defense for its community members.Ooki is a DeFi protocol that describes itself as “a financial primitive for shorting, leverage, borrowing, and lending that empowers decentralized, efficient, and rent-free blockchain.” Ooki DAO governs the protocol; at the time of writing, the DAO has ~$7.2m in its treasury. Ooki evolved from bZx protocol, which was created by bZeroX, a limited lia...

TLDR: Compound DAO considers Compound Improvement Proposals, a new governance process that would work in conjunction with Compound Governor. The move results in part from governance challenges entangled with a failed oracle upgrade at the end of August.Compound is one of the leading and most established DeFi protocols, with a track record of stability, security, and innovation — a rare combination. Among Compound’s several industry-leading developments was the introduction in 2020 of Compound...

TLDR: Compound DAO considers Compound Improvement Proposals, a new governance process that would work in conjunction with Compound Governor. The move results in part from governance challenges entangled with a failed oracle upgrade at the end of August.Compound is one of the leading and most established DeFi protocols, with a track record of stability, security, and innovation — a rare combination. Among Compound’s several industry-leading developments was the introduction in 2020 of Compound...

By Felix MachartSpecial focus: Time-lock weighted token votingA longer version covering DeFi case studies (Curve & Sovryn) is available here on Arweave One of the most difficult problems in any organization is how to balance short-term interests and long-term goals. Both are necessary for sustainable success in provisioning goods and services, but in traditional finance (TradFi) as well as decentralized finance (DeFi) capital markets there is a growing trend towards focusing on the short-term...

By Felix MachartSpecial focus: Time-lock weighted token votingA longer version covering DeFi case studies (Curve & Sovryn) is available here on Arweave One of the most difficult problems in any organization is how to balance short-term interests and long-term goals. Both are necessary for sustainable success in provisioning goods and services, but in traditional finance (TradFi) as well as decentralized finance (DeFi) capital markets there is a growing trend towards focusing on the short-term...

As part of our new Stateless initiative, we’re excited to present a guest deep dive on DAOs by Nick Naraghi, in which he explores the four key motivations for building Decentralized Autonomous Organizations 👉 Keep tabs on the fascinating world of DAOs by subscribing to our newsletter here 👈IntroductionAcross the board, DAO builders today are impassioned by a vibrant future they have seen and cannot shake. It’s a future that is fairer for everyone and resistant to capture by bad actors. A fu...

As part of our new Stateless initiative, we’re excited to present a guest deep dive on DAOs by Nick Naraghi, in which he explores the four key motivations for building Decentralized Autonomous Organizations 👉 Keep tabs on the fascinating world of DAOs by subscribing to our newsletter here 👈IntroductionAcross the board, DAO builders today are impassioned by a vibrant future they have seen and cannot shake. It’s a future that is fairer for everyone and resistant to capture by bad actors. A fu...

TLDR: Blockchain analytics firm, Nansen, proposes migrating the SushiSwap community to a new product offering called Nansen Connect. This new messaging tool would provide the DAO with a web3 native solution for community and social interactions. SushiDAO weighs the potential tradeoffs of integrating a new tool.On October 6th, centralized data provider Nansen posted to the SushiSwap forums a proposal to integrate Sushi’s community into their new product offering called ‘Nansen Connect’. The fi...

TLDR: Blockchain analytics firm, Nansen, proposes migrating the SushiSwap community to a new product offering called Nansen Connect. This new messaging tool would provide the DAO with a web3 native solution for community and social interactions. SushiDAO weighs the potential tradeoffs of integrating a new tool.On October 6th, centralized data provider Nansen posted to the SushiSwap forums a proposal to integrate Sushi’s community into their new product offering called ‘Nansen Connect’. The fi...