DAOs


Tech

How DAOs Can Empower Advisors and Investors

Decentralization doesn’t mean advisors and other financial intermediaries will be obsolete. In many cases, decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs, will give advisors and investors greater decision-making abilities.

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Tech

‘I Think We’re Doing This’: Inside One DAO’s $20M Plot to Purchase the US Constitution

What started as 10 internet friends is now an 8,000-strong Discord channel. Is this the new face of participatory democracy?

A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution could end up in the hands of a DAO. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Tech

xDai Wants a Gnosis Merger to Stay Relevant, but Some Tokenholders Are Crying Foul

Project leads see a potentially historic DeFi merger as a way to fend off the competition. Speculators are complaining they’ve been shortchanged.

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Finance

Startup Raises $1.5M to Make DAO Creation as Easy as Starting a Group Chat

The Solana-based Squads is looking to unleash the next wave of DAOs.

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Finance

Blockchain Game Companies Pen Open Letter to Valve: ‘Don’t Ban Web3 Games’

The developer booted the games from its Steam platform last month.

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Tech

Martin Shkreli’s Wu-Tang Clan Album Now Belongs to a DAO

PleasrDAO, a crypto investment collective, bought the one-of-one album for $4 million in July.

Rap group Wu-Tang Clan poses for a portrait on May 8, 1993 on Staten Island. (Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Policy

How to Do Business as a DAO

Should a DAO retain a law firm? Three representatives from Morrison Cohen LLP discuss the emerging legal issues around this new type of business enterprise.

Digital suits. (Alexander Naglestad/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

NFT Rentals: Why VCs Are Backing a Puzzling New Project

Animoca Brands is leading a $1.5 million bet on reNFT, a year-old DAO that lets you rent out NFTs on the Ethereum mainnet.

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