DAO


Videos

Kimbal Musk on DAO Non-Profit: Traditional Philanthropy is ‘Very Inefficient’

Big Green co-founder Kimbal Musk and H.E.R. DAO founder Tracey Bowen discuss how decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) can help resolve complex problems like gender inequality and global access to food.

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Finance

Tesla Board Member Kimbal Musk Says Most DAOs Are Not Actually Decentralized

“Frankly, I think most DAOs are designed to allow the founders to maintain control,” said the founder of food justice charity Big Green DAO.

Kimbal Musk, Co-Founder & CEO, Big Green, questioned DAOs at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Christian Barrett/CoinDesk)

Layer 2

Givepact Builds Free Crypto Fundraising Platform for Nonprofits

The fundraising platform aims to create an economy of giving and advocacy in the metaverse. It's a finalist in this week's Web 3 Pitch Fest at Consensus.

Givepact co-founders Steven Aguiar and Alicia Cepeda Maule (Givepact)

Opinion

The Coming InDAOstrial Revolution

DAOs give humans a chance to build bigger, weirder things on totally radical timelines, just like the advent of the corporation paved the way for the Industrial Revolution.

Factory interior, 1871 (modified by CoinDesk)

Videos

Kimbal Musk on Disrupting Philanthropy With Big Green DAO

Big Green Co-founder & Executive Chairman Kimbal Musk joins “First Mover” to discuss his aims of rethinking the field of philanthropy with the Big Green DAO. Plus, the younger brother of Elon Musk gives his take on dogecoin (DOGE) and the bitcoin energy debate.

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Finance

Kimbal Musk and His Big Green DAO

Elon's brother on his DAO nonprofit: "It has never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever been done."

(Kimbal Musk, modified by Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

Finance

Paradigm Backs $5M Round in DAO Management Platform Dework

Pace Capital co-led the seed funding for the startup, which combines Trello and LinkedIn-like features for Web 3.

Dework raises a seed funding round. (sukanya sitthikongsak/Getty images)

Opinion

Happiness 3.0: A Mission for Mental Health in the Metaverse

Technological innovation is rapidly changing what it means to be human. How do we stay sane?

(Milad Fakurian/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Layer 2

Consensus 2022 Visitor Guide: Inside the DAOs

Short for decentralized autonomous organizations, DAOs will be covered extensively at Consensus. Here are our top picks for those interested in jumping down the DAO rabbit hole.

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