Governance

Governance

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BIP 119: Unpacking CTV and How It Would Change Bitcoin

Right now, we can only use Bitcoin scripts to designate when or why a bitcoin is spent. But what if we could use it to designate how a bitcoin is spent?

(Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment/Getty Images)

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Juno Blockchain Community Officially Votes to Revoke Whale’s Tokens

Takumi Asano says he may pursue legal action against the Cosmos-based chain’s validators unless the confiscated funds are returned to his investors.

"Realm of Juno" (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Here Is How to Improve DeFi Governance Using Ideas from Computational Voting Theory

The decentralized finance ecosystem is evolving at a rapid pace. It's time governance caught up.

Ballot box (Alexander Fox/PlaNet Fox via Pixabay)

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Mango DAO Embraces SOL, Rejects BTC With $1M Treasury Investment

The governing body behind Solana’s Mango Markets overwhelmingly rejected calls to invest even a sliver of its nearly $700 million treasury in bitcoin.

Sliced mango served up on a table (Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

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We Voted on It and You’re Fired: Welcome to the New World of DAOs

DAOs will increase transparency in businesses and other organizations, and improve governance.

DAOs will fundamentally change how organizations operate. (Michal Parzuchowski/Unsplash)

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Juno's Proposal 16 Vote Is a Watershed for Blockchain Governance – For Better or Worse

The proposal to cut a whale's token balance, which narrowly passed, highlights the complexity and risks of on-chain governance.

Implementing Proposal 16 would require a hard fork. (Juno, modified by CoinDesk)

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We Can Vote Away Your Money for Free: The Implications of Juno Prop 16

The proposal appears to be the first major instance of a blockchain community potentially voting tokens out of the hands of a fellow holder.

(Robert Couse-Baker / Creative Commons)

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AssangeDAO Raised $56M and Quickly Split Up. Was It Still a Success?

The WikiLeaks founder is still behind bars while the DAO works to release him by “any means necessary.”

(Alisdare Hickson/Wikimedia)

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What Is a DAO and How Can It Intersect With Government?

Scarlett Arana and Scott Spiegel of the Miami DAO project explain to “Community Crypto” host Isaiah Jackson what the definition of a DAO is and how it supports local governance in a community.

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Tron’s Justin Sun Accused of ‘Governance Attack’ on DeFi Lender Compound

Crypto think tank GFX Labs says a prominent whale may be attempting to swing a vote in his favor.

Tron founder Justin Sun