All the little details necessary to run a DAO. From legal to setup.

A review of key changes versus Compound’s Governor Alpha contract

This post describes why blockchain governance design is one of the most important problems out there, its critical components, current…

in a self-organized company

We explore the space of trust-minimizing coordination mechanisms for on-chain vote buying and exploitation in the permissionless model.

Exploring the future of protocol politics in the world of open finance

Peer-to-peer networks and protocols have inspired new ideas and ideologies about governance, with the aim of using technology to enable horizontal and decentralized decision-making at scale. This article introduces the concept of “dissensus” from political theory to debates about peer governance in online communities. Dissensus describes the emergence of incompatible differences. Among peer-to-peer technologies, blockchain stands out as a set of ideas that explicitly seek to resolve dissensus through consensus protocols. In this article, we propose dissensus as a “protocol” for foregrounding the often sidelined yet productive aspects of incompatible differences. The concept highlights that there might not always be consensus about a consensus algorithm, and that indeed, dissensus is the precondition for new possibilities and perspectives to emerge. We discuss the concept in relation to the histories of governance ideas in blockchain, namely, a “materialist,” “design,” and “emergent” approach. We then describe moments of dissensus in practice through two cases of online communities, Genesis DAO and Ouishare, discussing their different ways of recognizing and navigating dissensus. Finally, we give a critical overview of consensus algorithms, voting, staking, and forking as the mechanisms that make out blockchain governance ideologies. In conclusion, we argue that dissensus can serve as a useful concept for pointing attention to governance as it is conducted in practice, as h...

Blockchain advisors George Samman and David Freuden teamed up to co-author DAO: A Decentralized Governance Layer for the Internet of Value.

Governance Tokens are a new governance primitive used by Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). These allow voting on proposals.

Governance tokens are cryptocurrencies that represent voting power on a DeFi protocol. Popular tokens include YFI, UNI, AAVE, etc.

The DAO Discovery and Governance Platform

A governance toolkit for great communities

DAOstack is designed to catalyze the future of collaboration. It’s a platform for decentralized governance that enables collectives to…

talking dao governance with builders & investors. https://armada.fm

Taking governance communication to a new level

A newsletter aiming to interpret the complex world of distributed network governance, politics, and power. Click to read Boardroom, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.

A community driven resource covering digital and distributed organizations and their governance

A guide to governance of the Maker ecosystem.

DAO Operations is a budding crypto vertical that remains underserved. With over 1,000 Snapshot spaces, 700k governance token holders, and…

The Building Blocks of DeFi Governance

If you look at the social DAO landscape, you’ll see communities with different social token models. Some, like FWB, use a fungible social token to gate community access. Many emerging PFP-based communities like BAYC use NFTs as the primary community gating mechanism. Whether fungible or non-fungible, social tokens in DAOs usually represent three different but overlapping roles:

By: Ratan Kaliani, Annamira O’Toole & Shivam Patel

A pioneering framework for frictionless DAO governance with on-chain execution and plug-in dispute resolution.