Finance Redefined: Can DeFi and on-chain governance change human nature? Oct....

Finance Redefined: Can DeFi and on-chain governance change human nature? Oct....

Decentralized community governance isn’t always so decentralized. This week, one bit of news really grabbed my attention: Dharma getting criticized for allegedly trying to capture Uniswap governance.Dharma is the company behind a crypto payments and exchange app, a sort of Ethereum-based cousin of Square’s Cash App. Or at least that’s what I previously used to describe it — if you visit the website now you basically only see mentions of DeFi and some very trippy images.The Dharma website design is now very… daring. And inspired by Uniswap in some ways.Like Uniswap and Compound, Dharma is....


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