DAOs


Tech

‘I Think We’re Doing This’: Inside One DAO’s $20M Plot to Purchase the US Constitution

What started as 10 internet friends is now an 8,000-strong Discord channel. Is this the new face of participatory democracy?

A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution could end up in the hands of a DAO. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Tech

xDai Wants a Gnosis Merger to Stay Relevant, but Some Tokenholders Are Crying Foul

Project leads see a potentially historic DeFi merger as a way to fend off the competition. Speculators are complaining they’ve been shortchanged.

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Finance

Startup Raises $1.5M to Make DAO Creation as Easy as Starting a Group Chat

The Solana-based Squads is looking to unleash the next wave of DAOs.

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Finance

Blockchain Game Companies Pen Open Letter to Valve: ‘Don’t Ban Web3 Games’

The developer booted the games from its Steam platform last month.

Steam

Tech

Martin Shkreli’s Wu-Tang Clan Album Now Belongs to a DAO

PleasrDAO, a crypto investment collective, bought the one-of-one album for $4 million in July.

Rap group Wu-Tang Clan poses for a portrait on May 8, 1993 on Staten Island. (Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Policy

How to Do Business as a DAO

Should a DAO retain a law firm? Three representatives from Morrison Cohen LLP discuss the emerging legal issues around this new type of business enterprise.

Digital suits. (Alexander Naglestad/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

NFT Rentals: Why VCs Are Backing a Puzzling New Project

Animoca Brands is leading a $1.5 million bet on reNFT, a year-old DAO that lets you rent out NFTs on the Ethereum mainnet.

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