There was a hot take on Twitter a couple of weeks ago: “DAOs need CEOs,” the tweet read. The comments were full of mixed reviews — some dissented heavily, saying a single CEO is too centralized, while others felt that DAOs need more direction, which a centralized leader could provide. …

BanklessDAO’s Web3 Publishing Engine. — BanklessDAO is an education and media engine dedicated to helping individuals achieve financial independence. …

Plugging Into One of the Premier DAOs of DeFi Step-by-Step — Yearn Finance is growing, and they want you. With a thriving DeFi protocol and big plans on the horizon, Yearn DAO is looking for contributors. Here’s a bit on Yearn DAO, how to join, and what life in the Yearn sphere is like. …

10 Tactics for Being an Information Archeologist in the Open-Source Age — Web3 Research Unpacked Research looks different when all the information you could possibly want is ungated and permissionless. Will you need a billion subscriptions to everything from the Wall Street Journal to JStor to the Pew Research Center to access information, like you needed as a Web2 writer? Thankfully, no. Does that mean…

The Current and Future State of Spinning Up Communities at Warp Speed — FlashDAOs 101 “We are living history. We are writing history right now.” Those are the words of angyts, a core contributor to OpenDAO. While anything promising to shape history can become a viral tweet in the DAO world, it appears OpenDAO might just be doing it. And at warp speed. The DAO…

Société Générale Partners with MakerDAO in a Historic Move to Bridge TradFi and DeFi — TradFi is coming, but it’s not coming for us. It’s coming to join us. At least that’s what Société Générale, a French bank amongst the world’s largest investment institutions, is doing. Société Générale’s investment arm, SG-Forge, is raising a $20 million loan through MakerDAO’s DeFi lending protocol to refinance their…

Follow the developers. Check the transactions per second (TPS). Analyze the level of decentralization. Track the token value. Use the gas fee. These are all ways that crypto users and blockchain enthusiasts determine the legitimacy and validity of blockchains. But I disagree with their reasoning. All of the heuristics above…

Thoughts from the trenches of decentralized governance. — I joined the BanklessDAO as a writer at the end of August 2021. Seeking a way to contribute some of my free time to the crypto space in a meaningful way, I knew a DAO would be a great place to start. There’s no application process and no barriers to…

People love to peg their crypto bearishness on one thing: the environmental cost. But what is the actual environmental cost of cryptocurrencies? It’s not as much as pockets of the mainstream media think. And, even though the Web 3 world is growing, the environmental cost is decreasing. First, I’ll explain…