Governance

Governance

This Token Project Offered to Shut Down. Its Market Cap Shot Up $10M

Should DigixDAO completely dissolve its treasury or keep making grants to enhance the ecosystem? That's the question for token holders to decide.

Business  ·  13 December 2019
Governance

With 18 Million Bitcoins Mined, How Hard Is That 21 Million Limit?

The 18 millionth bitcoin is about to be mined. Though the remaining 3 million will take 120 years to mint, some question the certainty of the original hard cap.

Markets  ·  18 October 2019
Governance

MakerDAO’s Multi-Collateral DAI Token Is Launching Nov. 18

From Nov. 18, borrowers of DAI tokens will be able to stake multiple types of cryptocurrency collateral, not just ETH.

Markets  ·  9 October 2019
Governance

Hyperledger Blockchain Group Weighs Changes to Fix Election Issues

The blockchain consortium’s powerful technical steering committee is discussing changes to its elections process to boost voter turnout and more.

Business  ·  7 October 2019
Governance

IBM Official Elected Chair of Hyperledger Blockchain Tech Board

Arnaud Le Hors of IBM has been elected chair of the technical steering committee at Hyperledger, succeeding Intel's Dan Middleton.

Business  ·  11 September 2019
Governance

Steemit to Automate Development Funding With New DAO

The blockchain project that focuses on monetizing social media sites is launching a DAO in its coming hard fork upgrade.

Tech  ·  15 August 2019
Governance

Zooko Wilcox Pushes for New Developer Fund to Support Zcash

Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox has called for the creation of a new "Dev Fund" to support the operations of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

Tech  ·  1 August 2019
Governance

Bridging the Gap Between Bitcoin and Global Regulators

We need to solve the communication problem between crypto projects and regulators to build a healthy ecosystem, writes Shin’ichiro Matsuo.

Markets  ·  30 June 2019
Governance

How Blockchain Voting Is Supposed to Work (But In Practice Rarely Does)

There are a number of blockchain projects affirming they have a system of on-chain governance that works. But is that true?

Markets  ·  8 June 2019
Governance

In First, Tezos Blockchain Activates Upgrade By Token Holder Voting

Tezos has activated its first ever on-chain upgrade initiated entirely by Tezos bakers during a three months period of both voting and code testing.

Tech  ·  30 May 2019
Governance

Tezos Is About to Enact Its First-Ever On-Chain Blockchain Update

For the past three months, users of the Tezos blockchain have been voting on a set of two upgrade proposals. Now, the Tezos blockchain is set to activate its first official system-wide upgrade having completed three separate rounds of voting.

Tech  ·  28 May 2019
Bitcoin

The Blockchain Paradox

Blockchains offer potential solutions to deep-seated problems in society, but their own governance issues need to be solved first, writes Pindar Wong.

Business  ·  15 May 2019
Governance

Ethereum’s Reddit Moderators Resign Amid Controversy

Controversy surrounding Reddit moderation in the ethereum community has led to mods resigning and new practices being codified on the forum.

Tech  ·  12 May 2019
Governance

Voters on Ethereum App Veto Proposal to Fund Polkadot Blockchain

Aragon token holders have shot down a proposal to diversify project funds to support blockchain interoperability project Polkadot.

Tech  ·  30 April 2019
Governance

Bond Rating Agency Moody’s Warns on Risks of Private Blockchains

Rating agency Moody's has warned of several risks of private, centralized blockchains in a report examining the tech's pros and cons.

Markets  ·  29 April 2019