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Ethereum’s Favorite Lossless Lottery Will Airdrop Its POOL Token Today
The distribution was designed to reward small depositors on PoolTogether who stayed in a long time.
Tag: governance
Feb 17 2021
Feb 03 2021
Taproot Update: Bitcoin Users Home In on Activation Plan, Date Still TBD
□ Feb 03 2021 □
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The meeting ended with rough consensus in favor of BIP8 (false), as well as with approval of two possible methods to put this BIP into motion.
Feb 02 2021
Yearn Finance Votes to Inflate YFI Token Supply by 20%
The vote to mint an additional 6,666 YFI in order to fund future development on the Yearn protocol has passed.
Jan 20 2021
‘Let’s Not Be Bitcoin’: Yearn Finance Considers Minting $200M in New YFI Tokens
Turns out the "no inflation" meme may not be here to stay.
Jan 11 2021
Jan 07 2021
Dec 28 2020
1inch Token Dumps 61% in Post-Launch Selloff
Token prices for the 1inch decentralized exchange have plummeted just three days following its post-launch pump as airdropped tokens get dumped on markets. The new 1INCH token went from zero to hero on December 25 following its launch and listing on Binance. Following a pattern that the majority of new DeFi tokens...
Dec 18 2020
The Good, the Bad and the DAOs Only a Founder Could Love in 2020
Founder of DAO Leadership Grace Rachmany gives a rundown on the current state of the DAO landscape.
Dec 17 2020
CFTC’s Latest Crypto Primer Highlights DeFi, Governance
Decentralized finance and crypto governance are among a growing list of topics the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is watching in the digital asset space, it said in a new primer.
Dec 16 2020
Experiments in Crypto’s Governance Lab
□ Dec 16 2020 □
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policy & regulation
year in review 2020
Governance is one of the least appreciated fields of innovation in crypto and this year we saw exciting new ideas emerge.
Dec 15 2020
$9 Million Compound Bailout Proposal Fails
A Compound governance proposal, which would have handed out ~$8.7 million (~55,000 COMP), has failed. It would have partially reimbursed users that were...
Dec 14 2020
Compound Finance Vote on DAI Liquidation Compensation Nearing Close
A governance vote on the Compound Finance DeFi platform regarding compensation for users that lost finds through DAI liquidations is just hours away from conclusion with votes against dominating. The thirty-second governance proposal would distribute COMP tokens to offset losses incurred by liquidated DAI stablecoin positions. As it stands, a majority vote of 76% is The post Compound Finance Vote on DAI Liquidation...
Dec 09 2020
Compound Finance Proposal Ushers in the Future of Work
Tokeneconomics firm, Gauntlet Network, has just passed a new proposal on the popular DeFi platform, Compound...
Nov 27 2020
Curve Finance Votes to Disperse $3M in Fees to Governance Token Holders
The community vote was an exercise in decentralized governance for a protocol not unfamiliar with meeting community demands.
Nov 17 2020
AdEx Network Faces Crucial Community Vote on Decentralization
AdEx will launch the project's first community vote this month. Community members will decide on different ways to continue developing the protocol. AdEx is an advertising platform trying to solve advertising fraud and privacy issues....
Oct 31 2020
Uniswap Vote to Offer 2nd Round of UNI Airdrops Fails
Uniswap's second-ever governance vote for another airdrop of UNI has ended in defeat. Less than 1% of UNI token holders voted, failing to establish a quorum. ...
Oct 20 2020
Dharma Domination Drive Thwarted as Uniswap Vote Concludes
DeFi protocol Uniswap has concluded its first governance vote with a failure to come to quorum by a minuscule margin. The good news is that it keeps the platform relatively decentralized … for now. The first governance...
Oct 15 2020
Uniswap Governance Vote Raises Centralization Questions
DeFi protocol Uniswap is currently undergoing its first governance vote but members of the crypto community have noticed that the whales are largely in control of it. The initial proposal was made by DeFi lending and...
Oct 06 2020
Aragon and Balancer Develop a Zero-Cost DAO Voting System
Aragon and Balancer Labs are collaborating to launch Snapshot, an off-chain voting platform. Through the implementation of Aragon Agreements and Aragon Court, Snapshot will enable DAOs to take their...