DAOs prepare to face off: Would vigorous IP battles be good for DeFi?
An assertion of property rights on the part of a DAO could be healthy for decentralized finance — another sign that DeFi is maturing. Curve Finance, a decentralized exchange for stablecoin trading, is one of the world’s largest decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), with $6.5 billion in deposits, but last week, one of its token holders made an unusual proposal:The Ethereum-based DAO should “engage competent counsel” — both in the United States and other relevant jurisdictions — to prevent other DAOs from the “wholesale copying” of its software code. Why is this unusual? In the....
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DAO: Decentralized. Autonomous. Organization.The whole phrase is a misnomer. Theyre not decentralized, not autonomous and they are not organizations, Monsterplay blockchain consultancy founder David Freuden tells Magazine.Freuden co-authored a 51-page report on DAOs in May 2020 in an attempt to help realize their potential.We need DAOs, he explains. The idea of shareholder first is only a 1980s/1990s concept. Companies became about profits, not products.He foresaw big things for DAOs and much has changed nearly two years later. By the end of 2021, DAOs had more than 1.6 million....
The recent DeFi downturn has impacted the treasuries of decentralized autonomous organizations by 40% in a month Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) were heavily hit by October’s decentralized finance (DeFi) downtrend, with the total value of assets managed by DAO’s crashing by 40% from 30 days ago.According to data from DeepDAO, the combined assets under management (AUM) controlled by DAOs was more than $290 million as of early October. By the second week of November, the AUM of DAOs had fallen more than 50% to tag $140 million.As of this writing, DAOs currently manage $172.7....
“If DeFi aims to reduce regulatory risk, the form of DeFi governance will gradually become a DAO,” writes KuCoin Labs in its annual report. KuCoin Labs, the investment and research arm of crypto exchange KuCoin, has released its annual report, predictin that decentralized finance (DeFi) will still be a significant trend in the crypto industry in 2022 and governance will be run through decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).With the DeFi ecosystem continuing to be plagued by criminal whales, the risks of financial loss within the sector are becoming more apparent. Because of this,....
Can decentralized autonomous organizations change how the world is governed? Here is a detailed look. Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) have been a contentious issue in the blockchain and cryptocurrency world for a while now. From their early days as seen in the case of the Slock.it the German startup that brought about The DAO, to current iterations, DAOs have the potential to make or break the crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi) industry, and education will be a deciding factor.If recent developments are anything to go by, a misunderstanding of the true nature of the....