DeFi projects without decentralized governance? What's the point?
Decentralizing finance, governance and technology should be the ultimate goal for the DeFi sector. The role of governance in the booming decentralized finance industry is a nascent one, and there are ongoing conversations from key figures in the industry around its purpose and what governance may look like in the future.Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX recently shared that his firm’s involvement in DeFi will be “motivated by short-term profits and is not seeking to have a long-term impact in protocols via governance.” In doing so, he argued that he’s simply using DeFi protocols for their intended....
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Governance tokens allow users the opportunity to take on a more active role in managing decentralized projects. Governance tokens are a type of cryptocurrency that allow tokenholders to vote on the direction of a blockchain project. The primary purpose of governance tokens is to decentralize decision-making and to give holders a say in how the project is run.Governance tokenholders are usually more invested in the project’s success as they stand to gain or lose more, depending on the outcome. Community members can use tokens to influence the direction and features of a blockchain protocol....
According to Bloomberg, decentralized finance (DeFi) projects operate through automated contracts and are usually helmed by collective entities rather than single individuals. This collaborative nature of governance has often posed challenges for regulators. However, leading financial institutions are now questioning the narrative surrounding DeFi. Related Reading: Decentralized Domination? 40% Of Crypto Platforms Buck The Centralized […]
Open DeFi’s new DAO will be community governed through a governance token. Decentralized finance alliance, Open DeFi, has announced it will create a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, to support its vision for an open and global cross-chain DeFi ecosystem.The alliance launched in late 2020 with the goal of bringing together Western and Eastern DeFi projects and has since seen some of the sector’s top projects join its ranks including as Aave, Synthetix and Balancer.The responsibilities of the Open DeFi DAO, or OD DAO, will include launching DeFi products across multiple....
Buterin asserts that things need to move beyond coin voting as it exists in its present form, suggesting “proof-of-humanity” or “proof-of-participation” alternatives. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has taken a deep dive into token-based decentralized governance, suggesting that existing voting mechanisms are flawed and may be holding the DeFi sector back from realizing its full potential.In a lengthy blog post published Aug. 16, Buterin stated the crypto community needs to "move beyond coin voting as it exists in its present form.”Currently, the majority of decentralized finance....
Rabet, a consolidated non-custodial wallet made for DApps and DeFi Apps on the Stellar network is creating a community governed ecosystem through its governance token, RBT. There is a recent trend of on-chain governance that seeks to have users more engaged in cryptocurrency projects. The on-chain governance is there to guide the protocols to operate […]