Governance


Tech

Polkadot Chief Gavin Wood Announces Blockchain Governance Upgrade

The platform's “Gov2” is set to launch on Kusama “imminently,” following a final professional audit of its code, he said.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood (Parity Technologies)

Tech

Solana DeFi Platform Votes to Control Whale Account in Bid to Avoid Liquidation 'Chaos'

Solend users voted to "grant emergency power to Solend Labs to temporarily take over the whale's account."

Solana Hacker House en Miami, abril del 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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MakerDAO Cuts Off Its AAVE-DAI Direct Deposit Module

MakerDAO is temporarily stopping DAI from being minted and deposited in Aave’s crypto lending platform.

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Videos

Gaming DAO Merit Circle and YGG Caught in DAO Governance Strife

Members of the Merit Circle DAO have put forward a proposal to refund an investment by Yield Guild Games (YGG) and cancel an agreement between the two, claiming that YGG has not added enough value. "The Hash" team discusses the latest story illuminating the power of DAOs.

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BIP 119: Unpacking CTV and How It Would Change Bitcoin

Right now, we can only use Bitcoin scripts to designate when or why a bitcoin is spent. But what if we could use it to designate how a bitcoin is spent?

(Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment/Getty Images)

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Juno Blockchain Community Officially Votes to Revoke Whale’s Tokens

Takumi Asano says he may pursue legal action against the Cosmos-based chain’s validators unless the confiscated funds are returned to his investors.

"Realm of Juno" (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Opinion

Here Is How to Improve DeFi Governance Using Ideas from Computational Voting Theory

The decentralized finance ecosystem is evolving at a rapid pace. It's time governance caught up.

Ballot box (Alexander Fox/PlaNet Fox via Pixabay)

Tech

Mango DAO Embraces SOL, Rejects BTC With $1M Treasury Investment

The governing body behind Solana’s Mango Markets overwhelmingly rejected calls to invest even a sliver of its nearly $700 million treasury in bitcoin.

Sliced mango served up on a table (Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

Opinion

We Voted on It and You’re Fired: Welcome to the New World of DAOs

DAOs will increase transparency in businesses and other organizations, and improve governance.

DAOs will fundamentally change how organizations operate. (Michal Parzuchowski/Unsplash)

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Juno's Proposal 16 Vote Is a Watershed for Blockchain Governance – For Better or Worse

The proposal to cut a whale's token balance, which narrowly passed, highlights the complexity and risks of on-chain governance.

Implementing Proposal 16 would require a hard fork. (Juno, modified by CoinDesk)