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Blockchains are not simply about money. The modern-day alchemists who minted Bitcoin and other digital assets have animated a generation of technologists to reimagine how the financial and commercial world operates. The vision that these technologists aim to bring to fruition is not just about payment systems and other financial instruments. Large... See more

Collector DAOs which acquire NFTs;Social DAOs that convene web3 communities;Collective/Cooperative DAOs in which groups of artists and engineers deliver services to other DAOs; andCharitable DAOs that promote good causes and public goods development.The variety within these different types of DAOs is demonstrative of communities coming together... See more

On June 7, Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) unveiled the long-awaited 69-page draft of the Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act (“Act”). The Act is meant to create a regulatory framework for digital assets, pioneer legal reform and regulation across various regulatory entities, and update current... See more

The tech industry got a speed-up with the Intel 4004 processor, launched in 1972. This was contemporaneous with American right-leaning economists launching a sustained attack on the regulatory state. The growth of the early PC industry in the late seventies and early eighties coincided with the supply-side thinking of Reagan and Thatcher. As an... See more

Beyond the network and protocol variety, DAOs come in many flavors. These include:Investment DAOs in which individuals, friends, and colleagues form clubs to invest in web3 startups;

Decentralized Bottlenecks:  The vision for web3 is admirable. But Moxie set out to understand how the decentralized sausage is made in practice. He was not impressed. Moxie's first concern was that Web3 is not as decentralized as it claims. In this case, access to the basic infrastructure of web3 (the Ethereum blockchain) ends up being routed... See more