What's a DAO to Do? Gitcoin Backlash Shows Crypto Governance Is More Than a Meme
Another DAO, another controversy. The latest Gitcoin debacle has revived an age-old question: Are DAOs really better than the firm?
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Another DAO, another controversy. The latest Gitcoin debacle has revived an age-old question: Are DAOs really better than the firm?
At the center of the Gitcoin partnership is greenwashing, a slick marketing scheme some say Shell is employing.
Gitcoin collaborates with Shell to incentivize renewable energy adoption using blockchain. The partnership includes funding for Climate Solutions rounds and a Q4 hackathon.
Shell collaborates with Gitcoin on climate solutions, but with its past controversies, skeptics question the oil giant's genuine commitment.
Gitcoin announced the mainnet launch of its Layer 2 Public Goods Network (PGN) with the aim to fund public goods.
Since 2020, crypto has seen dramatic prices, adoption, and attention swings. However, one term integral to the success of web3 has seemingly stagnated – ‘open-source funding.
Key Points: Gitcoin Grants 18 (GG18) is just around the corner, set to take place from August 15th to August 29th, 2023. This eagerly anticipated event presents an incredible opportunity for developers, creators, and projects to secure funding for their innovative initiatives.
The emergence of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) on the blockchain has been a game-changer, ushering in a new era of decentralized community administration.
Despite only playing a marginal role in Metalabel's NFT collection with Gitcoin, the Ethereum founder's name led to runaway speculation.
The collection is soaring based on its association with the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin. The NFTs commemorate a 2018 paper about Quadratic Funding, a public fundraising proposal.
A programmer by training, Owocki's view of securities law is not based in any formal legal training but crypto optimism, evolutionary science, economics and legal theory, with a focus on the principal-agent problem.
Supermodular picks up where Gitcoin Holdings left off.
The index could provide a stream of income for Gitcoin to raise funds for grants – if users are attracted to the new index that exposes token holders to a diversified set of liquid staking tokens.
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Huobi suspends trading of its mining pool token HPT and several others starting Dec. 23.
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Gitcoin's fundraising and partnerships lead explains how its grants work and the importance of community voting.
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Gitcoin will carry out the 15th round of donation activities from September 7th to 22nd.
Martin Köppelmann, Co-founder of Gnosis, created a smart contract that will detect whether censorship at the protocol level of Ethereum is currently taking place. The post Could GitCoin Grants address be under sanctions from the U.S. amid Tornado Cash saga?
Ethereum has been through 4 major governance crises centered around Vitalik Buterin's insistence to make Ethereum a non-profit organization. As a non-profit organization, Buterin believes that many capitalist-driven disincentives can be avoided – leading to a more decentralized, aligned, and powerful blockchain network.
Gitcoin has raised and donated more than $5 million as part of its Grants Round 14. What Happened: Gitcoin, the world's longest-running and biggest Web3 crowdfunding platform, leveraged its flagship technology, quadratic funding, to raise more than $5 million to go towards numerous projects focused on crypto advocacy, infrastructure and climate initiatives.
Crypto Briefing sits down with the founder of one of the major pillars of the Ethereum ecosystem.
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