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Gitcoin Drops GTC Token to 25,500 Users; Now Worth More Than $100M
Gitcoin has been funding open source projects for a more decentralized web since 2017 and now it’s decentralizing itself. Yesterday the Ethereum-focused startup announced it will be now governed by a DAO and holders of its new token, GTC. The first step in this gradual decentralization was to issue 100 million GTC tokens, 15 million…
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Yearn Finance Ecosystem Breakdown –– Pushing the Boundaries of Human Coordination
Yearn Finance surprised the DeFi world late last year when the project announced a flurry of mergers with Cream, Pickle, SushiSwap, Akropolis, and Cover in the span of a week. While the Cover merger ended, the remaining teams continue to collaborate at top speeds enabled by the shared goal of capital efficiency, belief in Yearn’s…
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Wyoming is Turning Into the Delaware of Digital Assets
By Tyler Whirty and Kevin Nielsen Wyoming’s bid to be the “Delaware of digital assets” continued this week. Governor Mark Gordon signed bill SF38 into law on Wednesday, making Wyoming the first state in the country to address the legal treatment of decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs. What exactly does that mean? DAOs are entities…
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"Collector DAOs Are Going to be a Game-Changer for the NFT Space:" pplpleasr
In this week’s episode we talk with the DeFi artist of the moment. Pplpleasr got into DeFi drawn in by the crazy yields but really stayed when she resonated with the community —the gaming-like, niche subculture of memes and internet-native humor. She started making videos for many DeFi teams, from Yeran to Pickle Finance. Her latest and…
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"We Were Idiots and We Were Poor; Then From Mid 2020 to Now, Suddenly, We're Right: " Ameen Soleimani
In this week’s episode I interview Ameen Soleimani, one of the most prolific builders in Ethereum. He’s the CEO of SpankChain, a blockchain-based adult entertainment platform, the co-creator of MolochDAO, a DAO to fund Ethereum projects, and the co-founder of Reflexer Labs, which created RAI, a purely ether-backed stablecoin. We talk about the need of a purely…
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Aragon Faces Wave of Resignations and It’s Not Clear Why
[Story was updated at 2:58pm EST] The Aragon community is facing mass resignations and nobody in the leadership team is being forthright as to what exactly is driving the exodus. The latest high-profile resignation was from Jorge Izquierdo, chief executive of Aragon One, the for-profit entity building tools and apps on the Aragon protocol. Izquierdo,…
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DeFi Rebound Underpinned by Strong Fundamentals
DeFi tokens are rebounding after a slump in October amid increased coronavirus cases and election uncertainty, dragging down most financial assets. All of the major DeFi tokens are up today, enough to erase each of their losses in the past week. 0x’s ZRX and Uniswap’s UNI are the biggest gainers, both up more than 10%…