Newsletter #2 (october)

Hi, dgov friends and allies! Max here.

Thanks for your warm feedback on the first issue, here's the new one with the updates from October.

Community Updates

• Aragon: Mainnet launch!, Aragon Governance Proposal-1, Flock (funding for Aragon teams) and the Report on the grants program​

• DAO Stack: On the Utility of the GEN Token, The DutchX and Liberland pilots, DAO cast (podcasts),

• ​Moloch is a grant-making DAO – guild and a radical experiment in voluntary incentive alignment to overcome the "tragedy of the commons".

• Colony: Q4 2018 Update​

• EthMagicians: Discussion about bounties and, in general, governance of donated funds​

• Cardano: An Open Letter to the Cardano Community from IOHK and Emurgo (some critics)

• Decred: decentralizing their treasury with the release of Politeia​

• OpenLawOfficial announces the launch of OpenCourt​

• DGOV: updated the website added lots of links, like the list of gov resources, done a meetup during the Devcon with Vlad Zamfir, Lane Rettig, Santi Siri and many more

Articles, Papers & Videos

• Additions to governance 101: Vlad's Intentions for Blockchain Governance, Vitalik Comments, more from Luke Duncan and CleanApp​

• ​Introducing Continuous Organizations by thibauld

• ​Governance Panel with Vlad Zamfir, Gavin Wood, Arthur Breitman & Adrian Brink from Web3 Summit

• ​A RadicalxChange between Vitalik Buterin and Glen Weyl​

• ​Aragon DAO Backed Transcoders by Yondon Fu

• ​An agent-based simulation and analysis of Aragon’s Court mechanism by Luke Duncan

• ​Exploring alternatives to Liquid Democracy by Luke Duncan

• ​An introduction to blockchain governance by P.J. Leimgruber

• ​A Path to Decentralization by Blockstack

• ​What is Genesis DAO and how does it work by DAO Stack

• ​Use of a DAO to crypto-fund the single molecule sequencing and publication of a Type II Cannabis plant by thibauld

• ​Incentivising participation and growth in communities (using crypto-economics) by David Truong

• ​Cryptonetworks and the theory of the firm by Qiao Wang

Events

• ​Revision conference (Nov 19-20) explores the transition to a more human-centric future

• ​Aracon (Berlin, Jan 29-30) by Aragon

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