Token Engineering and DAO Design

Funding your DAO means keeping a healthy treasury, running operations, and making sure these communities are fulfilling the goals that their DAO was spun up for.

We talked to some of our favorite DAOs on the issues they consider important for the security of DAOs. Some of the themes that emerged were around governance, smart contracts, and treasury.

The DAO governing one of Ethereum’s most important stablecoins looks to ConsenSys for its network and specialized research.

The real problem is not recentralization, but the fact that we are not truly decentralized in the first place.

Smart Invoice provides secure invoicing that integrates escrow and arbitration.

Stablecoins have enabled users to efficiently transfer value on a blockchain. We look at the various forms of stablecoins driving DeFi economies, with focus on Aave's proposed stablecoin, GHO.

Random Observation/Comment: If a token is the equivalent of a website in the web2 world, then SEO and searchability is the enabled seamless distribution of those tokens through liquidity pools and market making.

NFTs surged in popularity in 2021, with around 26.8 million wallets trading NFT last year alone - up from 545,000 in 2020. Some of the most successful projects are growing their ecosystems through the use of token rewards and community-focussed privileges. Let’s dive into the projects doing it best.

Today, we discuss the tokenomics of the major lending protocol tokens: CREAM (Cream Finance), CEL (Celsius), COMP (Compound), and AAVE (Aave).