Soulbound Tokens, or SBTs, are hot right now. Like, really hot. Described in Puja Ohlhaver, Vitalik Buterin, and Glen Weyl’s recent paper “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul”, SBTs are essentially non-transferable NFTs. Because they are non-transferable, SBTs can be associated with one specific person or “soul” and used to represent…

What is it about Discord that creates a utopian environment for some and a grueling, soul-crushing experience for others? High speed, 24/7 discussions wear down community moderators. “Soft fudders” undermine the confidence of builders. Endless streams of repetitive questions, scammers, and real time feedback make participation a battlefield. Discord is…

Last year Tally onboarded some of the biggest DAO’s in the Ethereum ecosystem and tens of thousands to decentralized governance. In 2022 we have even bigger plans- onboard everyone to DAO’s! We have some exciting new updates to the Tally platform: Multichain support — Add your DAO on Polygon, Optimism…

OpenZeppelin has added the draft of ERC721votes preset to their standardized contract library. This draft update brings the power of the Governor DAO framework used by projects such as Compound, Uniswap, Gitcoin, and ENS, to NFTs projects in a standardized format. Originally pioneered by the NounsDAO and used by community-run…

At Tally, we believe that Internet-native organizations — DAOs — will become the dominant organizational form for human capital, energy, and creativity! If this sounds far-fetched, it’s not: it’s happening now, today. Defi Protocols such as Compound, AAVE, Uniswap are owned and governed by their creators and users alike. PleasrDAO…

Crypto Protocols should model themselves after the Roman Empire because the future is Chaos and the time for Empire building is now. Let me start by saying: the future in Crypto is chaos and I might be totally wrong. I was speaking recently with Brendan Asselstine of PoolTogether on the…

How Solos is creating a new future for traditional Artists in the digital realm Solos are generated digital paintings drawn from the archive of the artist, Jeremiah Palecek. Each Solos painting is a kind of ‘automatic collage’, each element drawn from some work in Jeremiah’s vast collection of paintings done…

Note: This article is a thought exercise. 1: Gas prices will scale with the value of the transactions and will continue to be expensive and trend upwards.

As developer advocate at Zeppelin I am a huge fan of our product ZepKit, it allows developers to build out ethereum backed applications very quickly by abstracting away all the boiler plate necessary to get started. …