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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

The shape of this future is rapidly coming into focus and centers around an organization referred to by technologists as “decentralized autonomous organizations,” or DAOs. These DAOs operate with different assumptions than many of today’s traditional legal entities and other business associations. DAOs are not run by boards or managers, but rather... See more

So whether you’re planning a token launch, or looking at the tokenomics of a project, here’s everything to think about around getting tokens in people’s hands.

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;

The term ‘tokenomics’ is a hybrid of token and economics, and its meaning is quite similar to economics. Tokenomics studies how people interact with tokens. Specifically, the issuance, distribution, and burning of tokens of a cryptocurrency. Economics is often divided into micro- and macro-economics. In this article I want to take more of a micro... See more

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.