Tagged: daos

September 15, 2026 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer, one of DeFi’s longest-running automated market makers, is asking token holders to approve an orderly wind-down of the protocol and a return of remaining DAO assets to BAL holders. The plan was posted on the project’s governance forum by treasury council member and former… Read More

August 20, 2026 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance reported that its internal monitoring systems identified and helped neutralize a suspicious governance proposal targeting a decentralized autonomous organization. The DAO proposal, which appeared designed to compromise access to the project’s treasury holdings valued at approximately $1.2 million, was reportedly detected with fewer than… Read More

July 7, 2026 @ 8:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BonkDAO—the entity managing aspects of the BONK memecoin ecosystem on Solana—has confirmed the loss of roughly $20 million worth of BONK tokens from its treasury. The incident stemmed from a malicious governance proposal that successfully authorized the transfer of funds to an attacker-controlled wallet. According… Read More

May 25, 2026 @ 7:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has been reviewing various governance models across more than 11,000 different DAOs or decentralized autonomous organizations as he seriously looks to fundamentally enhance how Cardano (AD) effectively addresses and resolves internal conflicts. According to Hoskinson, this ongoing effort meaningfully builds on… Read More

April 24, 2026 @ 5:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis noted that on April 18, 2026, cybercriminals believed to be tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group executed one of the largest DeFi heists of the year, siphoning approximately $292 million (116,500 rsETH) from KelpDAO’s LayerZero-powered bridge. Unlike typical smart-contract vulnerabilities, this breach targeted off-chain… Read More

January 4, 2026 @ 5:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a bid to mend tensions within one of decentralized finance’s flagship protocols, Aave founder Stani Kulechov has signaled a potential shift in how value flows between developers and token holders. On January 2, 2026, Kulechov posted on the Aave governance forum, pledging that Aave… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 12:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH) is emerging as an alternative to Bitcoin (BTC) for corporate treasury management, offering advantages that align with modern corporate strategies. A recent report by Galaxy Digital highlights the growing trend of U.S. publicly traded companies integrating ETH into their balance sheets, signaling a… Read More

January 21, 2025 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Open Campus, the community-led decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) building an on-chain education network, announced it has launched the EDU Chain mainnet, a Layer 3 blockchain on Arbitrum Orbit. EDU Chain is designed for consumer-facing education apps and on-chain education finance (EduFi), “powered by the EDU… Read More

December 27, 2024 @ 10:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Nomic DAO Foundation announced the official launch of a fee-free on-and-off ramp for Bitcoin (BTC) on Osmosis, the “decentralized” exchange (DEX) within the Cosmos ecosystem. Approved by the Nomic DAO and Osmosis DAO through a revenue sharing agreement, Osmosis and Nomic have created a… Read More

March 10, 2024 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon recently signed a bill into law that allows for the development of a complete legal framework for the establishment and management of so-called decentralized autonomous organizations or DAOs. The latest bill has reportedly been sponsored by the legislature’s Select Committee focused… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IntoTheBlock, a provider of on-chain analytics has announced the integration of the TRON network into its Market Intelligence suite. Via a collaboration with TRON DAO, these advanced indicators “will be available for free to the TRON DAO community.” The TRON network, which is reportedly “known… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthony Leutenegger, Head of Growth at Aragon, the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) platform that grows with you and allows users to mint tokens, set governance, and easily onboard members, recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Anthony Leutenegger of Aragon discussed the launch… Read More

August 4, 2023 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Onfido, which claims to be the global leader in automated digital identity verification, today announced that they have partnered with 0xKYC, an innovative startup bringing zero-knowledge proof identity solutions to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). 0xKYC, which is currently in its seed round of investment, is… Read More

July 4, 2023 @ 12:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralization theatre: We’ve heard it time and time again in recent months as several projects have struggled to commit to the underlying ideological tenets of blockchain amid growing skepticism of the space. Others have fared relatively well, though — from the community-initiated vote for the… Read More

June 25, 2023 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, which claims to be the “longest-standing” DeFi lending protocol and creator of DAI, the original decentralized stablecoin, has announced that it has “completed the purchase of an additional $700 million worth of US treasuries, bringing the value of its total bond allocation to $1.202… 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

May 14, 2023 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aragon, the platform for building and running decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has implemented a number of safeguards to protect its treasury in response to a coordinated attack focused on draining value from the project. In the wake of the attack and in order to mitigate… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As Web2 social media platforms continue to grapple with concerns about data privacy, misinformation, and content moderation, many users are turning to alternative forms of social media. Among these alternatives are Web3 social media platforms, which are built on decentralized networks and feature community-driven governance,… Read More