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MakerDAO Votes to Add GUSD and PAXG as Collateral

2 Nov 2020 1 minute read 7 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

On October 29, the MakerDAO governance community successfully passed two proposals on the addition of Gemini Dollar (GUSD) and PAX Gold (PAXG) as collateral. The two assets will now be put up for executive votes within the next 30 days. Voting for G...

Second Uniswap Proposal Also Fails to Reach Minimum Vote Threshold

2 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Uniswap’s second governance proposal, focused on retroactively airdropping UNI tokens to users, failed to pass following the voting period’s closure on October 31.  The proposal put up for vote the decision to retroactively airdrop 400 UNI to users...

It Looks Like Uniswap Will Airdrop UNI to Third Party Users

30 Oct 2020 1 minute read 20 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Uniswap is about to see its second governance proposal succeed, as a governance decision to retroactively airdrop UNI tokens to third party users of the exchange comes to a close on October 31. DeFi platform Dharma initiated a governance proposal to...

Aave’s Community Takes Control of Governance

29 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Decentralized lending platform Aave (AAVE) announced on October 28 that it has handed over the protocol’s admin keys to the community, a major step in the path towards full decentralization. The Aave team handed over the admin keys to community gove...

Newsletter #132 | Did COVID Make Bitcoin Great Again?, JP Morgan's "Almost" Ready to Make Money with Blockchain, Governance Research Institute, Ledger Users Targeted and More...

29 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments KHubbard

  According to a recent survey published by Greyscale, the world's largest digital asset manager, America’s Bitcoin investors are more interested in Bitcoin than last year, in part spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.  The survey, which summarizes t...

Crypto-Powered Audius Airdrops $8M Worth of Tokens to Artists and Listeners

27 Oct 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Blockchain-based music platform Audius celebrated the launch of its AUDIO token on the mainnet by airdropping $8 million worth of the token to artists and listeners on its platform on October 23.  The team airdropped 50 million AUDIO tokens to 10,00...

Uniswap’s First Governance Proposal Fails

20 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan

The voting period for Uniswap’s first governance proposal ended on October 19, with it failing to pass as the total number of votes failed to reach the quorum threshold. While the vast majority have voted in favor of the proposal, it has failed to r...

Year two of Decred's Politeia in numbers and graphs

16 Oct 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Richard Red

This report presents an overview of Politeia activity data for the second year of its operation (Oct 16 2019 to Oct 16 2020). I have kept the analysis quite similar to last year’s report, so most of the graphs can be be directly compared with the pre...

Issue 38 - October 2nd - 14th 2020

15 Oct 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Richard Red

Treasury balance: 644,710 DCR (approx +12,100 DCR/month) - $7.5 million (+$141k/month) based on $11.65 DCR price New proposals Decred Content and Asset Translation Proposal Published Oct 14 by kozel | 7 comments This proposal requests a budget of up...

First Uniswap Governance Poll Results in Controversy

15 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Uniswap’s first governance proposal, initiated by DeFi platform Dharma, has stirred up controversy as some community members allege that the proposal is designed to favor whales. The proposal is aimed at altering the proposal submission and quorum r...