Governance

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Are governance tokens the way forward, or a step back?

15 Oct 2020 3 minute read 13 comments Creepto

I Just had my first experience with trying to vote. No, not that vote - I tried to vote on a Uniswap resolution that was put forth by a big company (Dharma), trying to take over the protocol, by lowering the limits to making and passing proposals. An...

Uniswap Has Its First Governance Proposal

14 Oct 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

The first governance proposal on Uniswap is currently underway, with DeFi platform Dharma behind the first proposal, according to a tweet posted on October 13. The proposal sees the governance community vote on quorum and proposal thresholds, which...

Aragon and Balancer Partner to Work on Snapshot

8 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan

Aragon (ANT) and Balancer have partnered to improve tokenholder polling tool Snapshot, according to a blog post published on October 6. The Aragon team will work with Balancer and Snapshot creator Fabien Marino to add Aragon Agreements to the tool B...

Aave Hands Governance Over to Users, With Tokenomics Upgrade as First Proposal

28 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Decentralized lending protocol Aave (LEND) has transitioned to full community governance, with the first proposal being a vote on its Aavenomics token upgrade, the team announced on September 26. Implementation of decentralized governance is now on...

MakerDAO Won't Compensate Black Thursday Victims

24 Sep 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

The Maker Foundation will not compensate Vault owners, who suffered losses as a result of the Black Thursday market crash, after a governance poll concerning the same concluded on September 22. The poll, which began on September 8, saw over 57,000 v...

Yearn Finance Founder Says He Would Like to Be Uniswap Delegate

21 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Yearn Finance (YFI) founder Andre Cronje has revealed his desire to act as a Uniswap delegate, tweeting on September 19 about the motivation and plans were he to become one. Cronje said that he had no intention of proposing a YFI-ETH liquidity pool...

Curve Finance Launches Dividend Program for CRV Holders

21 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Curve Finance launched a dividend program on September 19 for holders of governance token CRV, the result of which is that fees are now distributed between liquidity providers and token holders. The dividend program is a result of community-lead pro...

Compound Launches Autonomous Proposals

17 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

On September 10, the Compound Finance (COMP) team unveiled a new feature called autonomous proposals which streamlines the proposal creation process. The Autonomous Proposal tool allows anyone holding 100 COMP or more to launch the autonomous propos...

Next upgrade for Tezos has been injected and it will be an interim protocol proposal.

4 Sep 2020 2 minute read 11 comments Allen Walters

To tamper expectations: this upgrade does not yet include privacy. More context further down in this article. Tezos is a self upgrading blockchain that has on-chain governance as a core-protocol feature. Yesterday a new upgrade has been injected into...

VG Brief Overview — Kulupu — An amazing democratic network

26 Aug 2020 4 minute read 1 comment virtugrana

  The bitcoin network is not as decentralized as many think. If we analyze the hashrate distribution, we will notice that joining a few pools we will have more than 50% of the hashrate, approximately. Also, few are those who have the financial condi...