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Universities to Build Blockchain DAO for Affordable Education

A group of top-tier Chinese universities plans to build a distributed organization to make educational resources more accessible and affordable.

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Vitalik Has a New Idea for ICOs – And It's Being Tested

A month after ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin proposed a new twist on the ICO funding model, a Russian video game firm is putting it into practice.

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2018 and Beyond: Tokens Are Slowly Eating the Firm

Think DAOs and tokens are just a joke? This lawyer believes they may be coming to bring an open-source ethos to your business model.

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Primavera de Filippi on Blockchain and the Quest to Decentralize Society

The Harvard researcher talks blockchain governance and her novel alternative to proof-of-work.

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New Ethereum Blockchain Consortium Could Run on Experimental Tech

Could the enterprise blockchain consortium use its own experimental technology to break away from the traditional top-down governance model?

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2016: The Year of Blockchain Hubris

2016 may have been a big year for blockchain, but there were failed ideas, too. DeRose lists eight he thinks won't carry over to the new year.

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The Inventor of the Merkle Tree Wants DAOs to Rule the World

Cryptography pioneer Ralph Merkle recently returned to the crypto community to advocate for the spread of what he calls "DAO democracy".

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The DAO Shows Blockchain Can't Code Away Social Problems

CoinDesk columnist Bailey Reutzel takes aim at what she believes are the social misconceptions that led to the debacle at The DAO.

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Can a New Social Operating System Fix The DAO?

An Ethereum startup led by a Harvard Berkman researcher is submitting a proposal to fix The DAO, the largest autonomous organization.

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