This choice of expedience over decentralization is bad in some use cases and harmless in others. The issue Moxie raised is known, and Ethereum developers have spoken and written about them publicly and are working on ways to mitigate them. And I have also written about how each wave of decentralization creates a concurrent wave of centralization.
The current path forward is that the VC fund will attempt to buy “tokens at a discount” from a DAO. This is what a16z did with Maker, what a16z did with Solana, and what Sushi is considering doing now.
NFTs have fundamentally changed the market for digital assets. Historically there was no way to separate the “owner” of a digital artwork from someone who just saved a copy to their desktop. Markets can’t operate without clear property rights: Before someone can buy a good, it has to be clear who has the right to sell it, and once someone does buy,... See more
We’ll break it into three sections:Considerations for Launching: Including how many tokens to initially put into circulation, liquidity requirements, incentives, timing, token pairs, and when to launch. Tactics for Launching: Including Initial Coin Offerings, Initial Dex Offerings, Liquidity Bootstrapping, Incentivized Liquidity, Liquidity Bonding,... See more