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Every DAOs read CryptoBloggers has picked: 29 so far, 23 in the last 30 days, strongest first under “Start here” and newest first below.
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DAO Tooling CEO Says the ‘Regulatory Excuse’ for Tokens That Return No Value Is Going Away
ScopeLift's Ben DiFrancesco argues fee-earning protocols should have a credible plan to send value to governance tokens, as the regulatory excuse fades.
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Zcash Could End Flow of Block Rewards to Community Grants as Polls Open Nov. 16
A Zcash draft would redirect the 8% block reward grants cut into a locked fund with no spending rules, and move 50,000 ZEC out of treasury; coinholder vote opens Nov. 16.
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Zcash holders to vote on pulling 50,000 ZEC, worth $50 million, from grants treasury
Zcash holders will vote on removing 50,000 ZEC (about $50M) from Zcash Community Grants and redirecting future block rewards to a development and legal-defense fund.
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Fired Employee Sues the Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin
A former Ethereum Foundation staffer sues the foundation and Vitalik Buterin, alleging she was fired after disclosing cancer and a staff letter on the new Mandate.
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Where Dissent Imposes A Heavy Price
Detailed account of a court filing that explains Ethereum Foundation departures and what leadership should have done differently.
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Zcash Could End Flow of Block Rewards to Community Grants as Polls Open Nov. 16
A Zcash draft would redirect the 8% block reward grants cut into a locked fund with no spending rules, and move 50,000 ZEC out of treasury; coinholder vote opens Nov. 16.
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Zcash holders to vote on pulling 50,000 ZEC, worth $50 million, from grants treasury
Zcash holders will vote on removing 50,000 ZEC (about $50M) from Zcash Community Grants and redirecting future block rewards to a development and legal-defense fund.
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Luke Dashjr Promotes Rival BIP Repository as 'Official'
Luke Dashjr promotes a rival BIP repository as official, splitting Bitcoin's proposal process; relevant governance drama.
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Fired Employee Sues the Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin
A former Ethereum Foundation staffer sues the foundation and Vitalik Buterin, alleging she was fired after disclosing cancer and a staff letter on the new Mandate.
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Where Dissent Imposes A Heavy Price
Detailed account of a court filing that explains Ethereum Foundation departures and what leadership should have done differently.
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Algorand Foundation Shuts Forum and Advisory Council
Algorand Foundation is closing its forum and advisory council and pausing xGov grants on Dec. 6.
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Ethereum Foundation sued for firing employee who opposed ‘suicide pledge’
A former Ethereum Foundation employee sued after being fired for opposing a 'suicide pledge'; a governance and labor story.
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Binance Asks ArbitrumDAO to Release Frozen ETH and ARB
Binance asks ArbitrumDAO to release frozen ETH and ARB to replenish customer-loss reserves; governance will take seven weeks or more.
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Zcash grants committee drops plan to redirect 98,000 ZEC to future mining rewards
Zcash grants committee withdrew its plan to redirect 98,000 ZEC to mining rewards after community backlash.
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Unaffiliated Governance Voters Generally Aren’t a Controlling ‘Group,’ SEC Staff Say
New SEC staff answers say unaffiliated governance voters generally are not a controlling group, though they bind no one.
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SEC Staff Clarifies When Token Voters Are Not a 'Central Party'
SEC staff guidance separates independent token governance voting from coordinated control, identifying unilateral powers that amount to overseeing a crypto system.
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Horizen’s Nov. 4 Bridge Cutoff Leaves USDC.e Outside DAO Recovery Plan
Horizen's DAO recovery plan excludes USDC.e bridged after the Nov. 4 cutoff; remaining ZEN and eligible ETH will be returned on Base.
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Zcash grants group offers $124M compromise as governance backlash grows
Zcash grants group proposes redirecting about $124M toward mining rewards, drawing governance and accountability criticism.
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Kain Warwick Says Anthropic Tried to ‘Invent a DAO’ With Its Founder Voting Bloc
Kain Warwick argues Anthropic's founder voting bloc, pooling 50.1% of votes, is a DAO-like design that crypto governance has seen fail.
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Zcash's Dev Fund Has a Market Success Problem
ZEC's price run has turned Zcash's fixed 8% dev fund into a large treasury, and builders now want to reduce it.
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Zcash co-founder proposes ending grants subsidy, citing $125 million treasury
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposes ending automatic grants funding, citing a treasury valued above $125 million. A real governance debate worth following.
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Akash Opens Vote to Move From Cosmos to Solana
Akash's Prop 346 would let AKT holders vote on a one-way conversion from Cosmos to Solana, with staking rewards ending at a later cutover.
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How a DAO Vote Becomes a Treasury Transfer
Uses Uniswap's executed funding proposal to explain how a DAO sentiment poll, binding vote and treasury-authorizing contract differ.
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Arbitrum Proposal Would Reopen Stylus Activations With Foundation Sign-Off
Arbitrum proposal would reopen Stylus activations with Foundation sign-off, while the DAO could revoke that authority.
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Abracadabra breaks its DAO to shut down protocol
Abracadabra DAO, once above $6B TVL, will shut down after a reduced-quorum vote on a wind-down proposal.
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Balaji's Network School Buys Farcaster From Neynar
Balaji's Network School has bought Farcaster from Neynar, less than nine months after Neynar took over.
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Balaji’s ‘Singapore of social media’ begins with a wave of bans
Balaji Srinivasan is pruning users from Farcaster to build a civil, techno-optimist community, a governance story about the platform's direction.
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Starknet Puts Independent L1 Research to a Community Vote
Starknet is holding a seven-day STRK community vote on research into an independent L1 away from Ethereum settlement.
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Rocket Pool Voters Back rETH Withdrawals, Keep 4 ETH Bonds
Rocket Pool voters approved random megapool exits for rETH withdrawals and kept 4 ETH bonds; the Saturn 2 package still needs ratification.
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ENS seeks DAO approval to activate upgraded Ethereum naming system
ENS is asking token holders to approve activating an upgraded naming system, with new .eth registrations paused for hours during the transition while existing names can renew without migrating.
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DAO Tooling CEO Says the ‘Regulatory Excuse’ for Tokens That Return No Value Is Going Away
ScopeLift's Ben DiFrancesco argues fee-earning protocols should have a credible plan to send value to governance tokens, as the regulatory excuse fades.
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Derive Proposes Treasury Funding for US-Regulated Derivatives Push
Derive proposes treasury funding for a US-regulated derivatives push, but sets no spending amount or launch date.
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Ethereum Name Service Team Asks DAO to Switch On ENSv2 and Freeze New .eth Sign-Ups on v1
ENS Labs asks the DAO to freeze new .eth sign-ups on v1 for a few hours while switching on ENSv2; existing names keep working.
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ENSv2 Activation Proposal Would Halt New ENSv1 Registrations
A proposed ENSv2 activation would halt new ENSv1 registrations while letting existing .eth holders keep names with no migration deadline, handing remaining admin roles to the DAO.