Valuing Open Source: Principles for Acquiring DeFi Projects
As DeFi sees its first M&A, we’re left with a big question: How do you value an open-source project in a very new industry?
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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....
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BitPay has launched 'Labs', a discussion forum for all of the firm's open-source bitcoin projects. The bitcoin payment processor announced the news on its blog, saying that it believes that reliable, open-source bitcoin infrastructure is crucial to widespread adoption. The post described BitPay Labs as the perfect place to ask questions, get feedback, and discuss ideas for improving on open-source bitcoin projects. It continued to explain that "each project has a Lab, and project maintainers are actively working with the community to answer questions, find solutions, and guide....