Tagged: dao

November 13, 2025 @ 2:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has granted its first DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, license. According to a release, DerivaDEX has received a Digital Asset Business License for a DAO-governed decentralized derivatives exchange. Honourable E. David Burt, JP, MP, Premier of Bermuda, said the future… Read More

August 29, 2025 @ 4:34 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

CredMont has officially launched as the first user-owned credit card DataDAO, built on the Vana Network. With more than 12,000 users at inception, CredMont is pioneering the creation of a collectively owned dataset of credit card transactions — long regarded as one of the most… Read More

September 20, 2024 @ 8:23 am By Michael Wong  |  

Drift, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform built on the Solana blockchain, has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Multicoin Capital. The new capital will support Drift’s expansion, focusing on developing a full suite of financial services, including spot and derivatives… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX‘s investment arm, OKX Ventures, announced that it has become a founding member of SOFA.org, an open-source and non-profit decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on developing a DeFi ecosystem that facilitates atomic, blockchain-based settlements of financial assets. Through its collaboration with SOFA.org, they seek “to… Read More

June 3, 2023 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOST is pleased to announce a collaboration with Professor Emil Chan, a Fintech visionary and digital transformation professional. Together, they will create NextEduDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) dedicated to improving higher education “through innovation.” Their mission is “to establish a leading global education DAO… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 7:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beanstalk, which claims to be the “pioneering” monetary experiment built to address the inefficiencies of hard money, announces a series of protocol improvements voted in by the DAO. With the upcoming series of Mayflower Updates, the protocol and its DAO are focused on the task… Read More

May 16, 2023 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Across Protocol and ShapeShift are now using oSnap for optimistic governance execution. After successfully passing through Snapshot governance voting rounds, the two projects “have integrated the UMA-powered solution.” With oSnap, the Across and ShapeShift DAOs can now “execute on-chain governance decisions optimistically based on off-chain… Read More

December 28, 2022 @ 9:59 am By JD Alois  |  

American CryptoFed DAO, LLC’s forthcoming administrative hearing, as demanded by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is scheduled to take place on January 18, 2023. The Hearing Day 4 is labeled as public on the SEC’s event page. It was previously reported that hearings were… Read More

November 18, 2022 @ 3:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has commenced administrative proceedings against American CryptoFed DAO LLC. The company is based in Wyoming and was established under the state’s DAO law in July 2021. The Order, available here, outlines the interaction between American CryptoFed and the SEC…. Read More

November 3, 2022 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Game7 and MetaMask announce HyperPlay, which is described as “an open-source desktop application where interoperability is the default for Web3 games.” HyperPlay claims it is “the world’s first Web3-native game launcher, built to make the user experience free of friction for… Read More

September 22, 2022 @ 10:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed and settled charges against bZeroX and founders Tom Bean and Kyle Kistner. The CFTC alleges that respondents illegally offered leveraged and margined retail commodity transactions in digital assets. The CFTC states that the activity can only be… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Web3’s commerce layer Boson Protocol is partnering with Alterrage, a DAO-led fashion label leveraging blockchain technology, “to create interoperable collections across physical, augmented, and digital spaces.” The partnership will see Alterrage “open a phygital Web3 store where buyers will be able to purchase the unique… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 4:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Morpho Labs, a French research and software development firm, has raised $18 million to pursue its vision of a new decentralized lending protocol. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Variant. The company states that approximately 100 investors participate in the funding… Read More

June 1, 2022 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Waves Enterprise, a hybrid blockchain platform combining public and private chains, has announced its intention “to move to a decentralized governance model and open-source its entire codebase.” The Waves Enterprise stack and further development of WE ecosystem “will be managed not by a group of… Read More

May 19, 2022 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ConsenSys, a blockchain tech firm, and LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN), a global firm focused on conversational AI, announced plans to create a “decentralized” customer care platform: VillageDAO. VillageDAO will focus on “empowering Web3 brands to self-service issue resolution by enhancing community engagement.” Community members will be… Read More

May 2, 2022 @ 9:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Okcoin is now offering MAGIC, which is the native crypto token of Treasure DAO. According to Okcoin, here’s what MAGIC and Treasure are all about, in simple terms: You can now deposit MAGIC on Okcoin. This offer is for all Okcoin clients… Read More

April 21, 2022 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Notifi, a messaging layer for Web3, has announced the launch of its SDK “to enable Web3 projects to drive communications at scale.” Solana’s SPL governance protocol is reportedly “the first to integrate and go live with the Notifi SDK, enabling DAO administrators to send real-time… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Kava DAO has reportedly voted to “allocate $750M to on-chain developer incentives, committing majority ownership of the network to the #BUIDLers.” As mentioned in a blog post, high-quality developers are “the most valuable asset to the long-term success of Layer-1 blockchains.” In recognition of… Read More

March 4, 2022 @ 4:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

All venture capital is not created equal, especially when it flows into newer areas of technology such as blockchain, DAO Maker co-founder and CSO Hatu Sheikh cautions. DAO Maker creates growth technologies and funding frameworks for startups, while simultaneously reducing risks for investors. Sheikh said… Read More

February 22, 2022 @ 5:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fans of the NFL’s Denver Broncos have a chance to own a piece of the team, and pay for it in cryptocurrency if the leader of a new movement gets his way. According to a report from the Denver ABC affiliate attorney Sean O’Brien is… Read More