Immediate and complete decentralization is not only difficult to execute well, it is also impractical for most projects. Without a doubt, centralization at early stages of growth makes it easier to coordinate,…
Category: Web3 Studies
What Are The Types Of DAO Voting Systems?
Today, let’s briefly review the following DAO voting systems: Conviction Voting, Futarchy, Holographic Consensus, Liquid Democracy, Multisig Voting, Permissioned Relative Majority, Token-based Quorum Voting, and Quadratic Voting. Conviction Voting Conviction voting is…
What Is A Futarchy?
In a Futarchy, a traditional democratic model is used to define what a DAO wants to achieve, but betting/prediction markets say how to get there. Said another way, elected representatives formally define…
What Are The Origins Of The Web3 DAO?
The Web3 DAO begins with the BitShares DAC and Dan Larimer, and involves one of the greatest pivot points in crypto history – the roll-back of the Ethereum blockchain by Vitalik Buterin…
What Is A DAO?
What is a DAO? A DAO is a shared mission, a tool, a compilation of smart contracts, and a decentralized, autonomous, organization. DAOs are both a return to our most ancient forms…
THORChain’s Role In The DeFi World
Typically, DeFi projects seek to provide some sort of decentralized financial infrastructure, or to create an ecosystem of decentralized financial services. Over the last two years, the decentralized finance sector has seen…
Aragon Launches First-Of-Its Kind Digital Jurisdiction
On Monday, February 10th, the first term of Aragon Court’s over 200 jurors began. Aragon, the only DAO offering full-stack jurisdiction services, from dispute resolution to governance infrastructure, is in its mainnet…
A Brief Introduction To OKEx Options Trading
Many trading strategies are best understood through option analysis. For example, the classic strategy of rebalancing a Permanent Portfolio to preserve wealth and maintain a fixed-leverage ratio can be shown to have…
Exchange Token $OKB: Utility & Value In Review
In Valuing Exchange Tokens – Is OKEX’s $OKB A Winner?, I wrote that the $OKB token seemed undervalued based on circulating versus total token supply, trading volume, marketing, and TVEV values. In…
Valuing Exchange Tokens – Is OKEx’s $OKB A Winner?
In a recent article titled, “OKEx: Defining Blockchain and Redefining Finance,” OKEx wrote that “the number of crypto exchanges has been booming rapidly, recording over 20,000 exchanges globally…” That’s an amazing number…