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Markets

AAVE Jumps 21% as Aave DAO Reveals its ‘Most Important’ Proposal

Aave’s cash pile has ballooned by 115% to $115 million since mid-2024, with the platform’s GHO stablecoin hitting a $200 million supply and reporting strong revenues.

The development lab overseeing lending protocol Aave, which means "ghost" in Finnish, is seeking $16 million from the Aave community. (Unsplash)

Markets

LinksDAO Plans to Launch a Community Token on Base

LinksDAO began by selling NFTs, but the market has moved on in the time since.

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Tech

SSV DAO Unveils “SSV 2.0” Framework, Bringing bApps to Ethereum

Based applications — bApps — will be able to leverage Ethereum validators directly from the layer-1, allowing them to avoid security and centralizing risks.

SSV Network unveils its new framework, "SSV 2.0", its most ambitious plan to date (Wikipedia)

Tech

DAO Governance Platform Agora Acquires Older Competitor, Boardroom

Industry insiders hope that regulatory clarity under a Trump administration might renew interest in decentralized governance.

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Tech

The Protocol: ENS on Bitcoin; Worldcoin, Without the Eyeballs

Plus: What Zuck can teach DAOs about governance.

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Tech

Mark Zuckerberg Could Teach DAOs Like Compound a Governance Lesson

A $24M "governance attack" led by a whale known as Humpy shows the flaws of a "one token, one vote" system, says security audit firm OpenZeppelin.

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 31: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony from the heads of the largest tech firms on the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Tech

Build-on-Bitcoin Trend Imports Another Concept from Ethereum: the DAO

RootstockCollective, a new decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, is designed to encourage builders and users of Rootstock – one of the oldest and most closely watched projects among the fast-growing ranks of layer-2 blockchains built atop Bitcoin.

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Tech

Snapshot, Popular DAO Voting Platform, Finally Moves On-Chain, Atop Starknet

Snapshot X, the new governance protocol, makes use of storage proofs – a cryptographic feature that StarkWare, the primary developer of Starknet, has helped innovate and embraced.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Finance

'Golden Boys' Move on CompoundDAO Wasn't a Governance Attack: Tally Protocol CEO

Sitting on the sidelines during the democratic process means you can't complain about the result, the CEO and co-founder of a DAO vote-counting protocol said.

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Tech

Crypto VC Paradigm Invests in MetaDAO as Prediction Markets Boom

MetaDAO, a Solana experiment in governance by "futarchy," raised a total of $2.2 million to fund operations.

Sporting a black hoodie, the pseudonymous coder known as Proph3t works in a Salt Lake City hacker house. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)