Governance

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

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

The Building Blocks of DeFi Governance

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

A guide to governance of the Maker ecosystem.

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

A newsletter aiming to interpret the complex world of distributed network governance, politics, and power.

Taking governance communication to a new level

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

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

A governance toolkit for great communities

Digital governance for open organizations - Boardroom facilitates simple and transparent stakeholder management of DAOs: distributed organizations and protocols

What are governance tokens and what is their purpose in the crypto economy? Data shows that the top 5 governance tokens have a combined market cap of more than $50 billion, so what is the hype all about?

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

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

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...

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

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

in a self-organized company

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

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

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