DAOs

Ethereum

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.

Tech  ·  20 February 2018
Regulation

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.

Policy & regulation  ·  28 December 2017
Governance

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.

Tech  ·  18 April 2017
Ethereum

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?

Tech  ·  21 February 2017
Ethereum

Rebranding The DAO: The Contentious Blockchain Concept is Back

It looks like we haven’t seen the last of leaderless blockchain-based companies. Despite the spectacular demise of The DAO, developers are still excited about the concept of one day creating decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), automated companies operated by hard-coded rules enforced on a blockchain. As evidenced by discussions at the ethereum developer conference, EDCON 2017, nearly […]

Business  ·  20 February 2017
Crime

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.

Markets  ·  31 December 2016
DAOs

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".

Markets  ·  28 June 2016
Ethereum

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.

Markets  ·  24 June 2016
Ethereum

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.

Tech  ·  25 May 2016
Ethereum

Researchers Plan ‘Unstoppable’ DAO to Help Whales Save Themselves

A distributed ledger could help these researchers launch an unstoppable “Human-Whale-Robot-Hybrid” distributed autonomous organization.

Markets  ·  20 May 2016
Ethereum

‘Blockchain Revolution’ Comes to Wall Street at Nasdaq Event

The authors of "Blockchain Revolution" spoke this morning about their latest published work at an event hosted by Nasdaq.

Business  ·  18 May 2016
Ethereum

The DAO: Or How A Leaderless Ethereum Project Raised $50 Million

A leaderless, distributed organization raised $50m worth of ether to invest in sharing economy projects, but how it came to be is largely a mystery.

Markets  ·  12 May 2016
Ethereum

Key Questions Every DAO Founder Should Ask

An Ethereum startup founder discusses challenges facing next-generation technology applications for autonomous blockchain-based companies.

Markets  ·  26 March 2016
Smart Contracts

How to Sue A Decentralized Autonomous Organization

In this opinion piece, Stephen D Palley discusses the potential legal liabilities facing those who run distributed autonomous organizations.

Tech  ·  20 March 2016
Ethereum

This Robot Plant Needs You and Bitcoin to Reproduce

The Plantoid, debuted at last month's Ars Electronica festival, relies on bitcoin to stay alive and – once it has enough – even reproduce.

Tech  ·  1 November 2015