U.S. District Judge William Orrick has ordered the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to serve its Ooki DAO lawsuit to Tom Bean and Kyle Kistner, who were the original founders of the defunct...
Tag: DAOs
Are DAOs The Future Of Governance?
World governments have shown a growing interest in blockchain technology in recent years due to its potential to simplify the complex process of governance. Thus far, the examples include implementing...
Remote work triggers move to DAOs in the post-pandemic world: Survey
A survey sample of working Americans suggests that millennial and Generation Z workers are far more in favor of joining decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and working remotely in the post-C...
Web3 Crypto and DAOs Purported as Decentralization Theater by Tezos Co-founder
A reliable report notes that there are approximately 50k active addresses on Tezos. Kathleen Breitman, the co-founder of Tezos, states that several Decentralized Autonomous Organisation reminds her of...
Uniswap ‘Fee Switch’ Finally Gets an On-chain Vote
Uniswap community governance is going to be voting on whether it will pilot a “fee switch” on select pools in its decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. An initial proposal was put forward in July thi...
Understanding the Rise of DAOs and their Effects
2021 saw venture capital activity amounting to $612B, a 108% increase from the year prior and a 24% increase in VC deals. But despite the pros, there are some painful pain points attached. DAOs can be...
Terra’s DAO Platform Is Open for Business
Terra founder Do Kwon is still wanted by Interpol, but the team behind the protocol’s stablecoin has launched a platform for building DAOs on its blockchain. Terraform Labs built Enterprise, a “no-cod...
DAOs: FTX Demise Is Win For Decentralization 
FTX failed, in part, because it was too centralized, according to DeFi adherents — with decentralized advocates now saying the debacle has unexpectedly given DAOs an opening. There was little to no ...
What do DAOs need to succeed in the long run?
The rising popularity of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) reflects the growing tendency toward the creation of community-focused projects within the Web3 ecosystem. At its core, a DAO is ...
UK Law Commission Seeks Evidence on DAOs — Expert Says ‘New Legal Forms Are Required’ – Featured Bitcoin News
The United Kingdom Law Commission recently asked experts and users to participate in a ten-week exercise whose objective is to help the commission better understand how decentralized autonomous organi...
Edward Snowden Talks Tornado Cash Sanctions, Ethereum Merge, DAOs and NFTs at Camp Decrypt 2022
Edward Snowden Talks Tornado Cash Sanctions, Ethereum Merge, DAOs and NFTs at Camp Decrypt 2022 In an extensive talk with Decrypt’s Dan Roberts at Camp Decrypt in Napa CA in October, Edward Snow...
Lido DAO’s LDO officially launches on Coinbase- What this means for investors
Lido Finance’s LDO is now available on Coinbase. Will this development trigger an influx of new demand for LDO? Lido Finance and its native token LDO are still relatively young in the crypto market. T...
Japan’s Digital Agency launches DAO to explore DAOs and Web3
The Digital Agency of Japan, aimed at harmonizing nationwide initiatives related to digital transformation, has launched a research decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, targeting Web3. In a ...
Multisignature crypto wallets are the safest bet for DAOs
Decentralized autonomous organizations are paving the way toward community governance for any kind of company. We’re seeing new creative use cases for DAOs, such as GameFi comic books laying the found...
DAOs Favor Classic Tax Havens, Pass Up Crypto-friendly US States
Proper legal frameworks need to be developed to protect individual members of DAOs for being personally liable for actions and obligations Wyoming’s laws do not take into account the uniqueness of DAO...
DAOs Rush To Restructure To Avoid Legal Liability
SushiSwap, SafeDAO and Uniswap have all altered their legal structures in recent months New DAO legal structures are functionally very similar to LLCs, crypto lawyers say Major DAOs are moving to adop...
Alien Worlds NFT Game Launches In-Game DAOs to Spur Competition
Hoping to amplify competition across multiple communities, the creators of the play-and-earn NFT game Alien Worlds today announced the launch of in-game DAOs—or decentralized autonomous organizations—...
Alien Worlds Call The DAOs Within Alien Worlds Syndicates
Alien World recently announced that the planetary DAOs are open for explorers. The DAOs will be run as candidates and vote. On October 20, 2022 the leading blockchain game, Alien Worlds, shared the i...
DAOs Aren’t People, Crypto Lawyers Tell Court in CFTC’s Ooki Case
Still, it’s how the CFTC has brought these charges that has attorneys in the crypto industry sounding alarm bells. The agency sought court permission to serve the entire DAO at once by posting t...
Crypto Venture Capital Fund Paradigm Also Wants CFTC to Serve Ooki DAO’s Members
While the crypto industry has not tried to defend against the actual allegations – that the DAO, with its predecessor company, bZeroX, offered unregistered products to U.S. customers – it has collecti...
Poseidon DAO’s AMA in detail
Poseidon DAO, following the success of the AMAs with Niro Perrone, Yu Cai, Giovanni Motta and Emanuele Ferrari, in its third edition featured Emanuele Dascanio and Matteo Mauro. Both prominent Italian...
Crypto Data Science Shop Gauntlet Launches Treasury Management System for DAOs
“The only institutions that are fully on-chain that could generate organic demand for these derivatives products are DAOs, which have a need to deploy tokens strategically to maximize their longevity,...
DAOs are in era 3.0 thanks to an infrastructure renaissance: Report
There are over 4,000 active DAOs, with treasuries totaling around $20 billion, which has many speculating that DAOs may still be a growing trend. Decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs, have ...
Uniglo.io (GLO) Heats Up With Price Surge, Brings Other DAOs Uniswap (UNI) And Lido DAO (LDO) To Sweat
Price action for Uniglo has been gathering a ton of attention recently. It’s still available in presale and gives those early investors who take the plunge a huge range of upsides to enjoy a token tha...
CFTC can issue summons through Ooki DAO’s help chat box, says judge
The United States Commodities Futures Trading Commission can serve members of the Ooki decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, with summons through online communications, according to a federal...
A crypto lawyer dissects the impact of the CFTC targeting DAOs
DAOs are in a precarious position right now — as is anyone who has ever voted in a decentralized autonomous organization that provides any sort of financial service. The Commodity Futures Trading Comm...
Poseidon DAO’s first AMA – The Cryptonomist
Poseidon DAO’s first Twitter space was held on Monday, 26 September, hosting artists Yu Cai and Niro Perrone. Guided by critic and curator Ivan Quaroni, the artists traced their artistic past, told th...
10 GameFi DAOs You Need to Know About in 2022
Players have always been the lifeblood of games, whether we’re talking about the retro arcade titles of the 1980s or immersive modern metaverses like Alien Worlds and Decentraland. And yet, until rece...
CFTC proves DAOs are not ‘enforcement-proof’
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a complaint against Ooki DAO for operating an unlawful margin exchange. It’s also filed an order setting against bZeroX, LLC, Tom Bean, and Ky...
Will DAOs change the way we work?
“Can DAOs change the way we work?” was the title of an interesting panel organized during the Zebu Live event held last week in London. It was interesting also because of the historical moment in whi...
What’s next for DAOs? Breaking down the CFTC’s latest enforcement action
On Sept. 22, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Ooki DAO in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleged that the DAO was...
Urbit Courts DAOs, Crypto Teams in Quest to Make Internet P2P Again
The new startups have raised millions of dollars, which again might sound like chump change from a crypto perspective, but was “unthinkable until about a year ago,” said Ted Galebach, founder of Uqbar...