"DAOs are toolkits for institutional innovation [3], they are playgrounds for governance games [7], they are democratising democracy innovation [74]." Our paper "Digital Democracy in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations" is now available (open access): link.springer.com/book/10.10…

Claude, define a “crypto system’s broad-based governance system”, please?

ethereum tool builders: you never end up in the same room core devs have calls. security folks have summits. tooling builders have... crypto twitter let's hang out together at devcon! nov 3, 4:45pm, workshop 1 app.devcon.org/schedule/devt…

A new initiative proposes independent security audits and formal verification of the EEZ smart contracts. The goal is to strengthen the security and reliability of EEZ through independent review and transparent verification. initiatives.thedao.fund/init…

A month ago, I found myself in the unexpected position of founding an AI startup. Today, the Inference Cooperative adopted its first real governance charter. We can't make AI good, but we can own our own choices, and make them together. Want to join? inference.coop

this SUNDAY we have a neo-cypherpunk day in Dublin: luma.com/k0zoml85?tk=jtoVCi featuring @DrNickA @lunar_mining @Arjcr7 @A_gutierro @rk_onchain @XRS_02 and moi

give yourself a wedgie! it's a DIY hardware wallet use it as a signer on a @safe three common parts _wedged_ together 3d print your own case everything is MIT wedgie.dev

Introducing our new project Onay. A local first companion for signing Ethereum transactions safely.

Live now: exploring how The Interfold enables shared computations on private data without exposing the underlying inputs With @jchaskin22 and @auryn_macmillan, founder of @theInterfold nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1aKbdErZE…

that's pretty much the most 'gonna tell it like it is' lineup you are gonna find for crypto 😄

You can do everything “right” and still be wrong about adoption. @b3nedictvs of the @CambridgeAltFin will take the Devcon 8 stage on the Rights, Freedoms & Governance track to unpack why blockchain adoption rarely follows the path we expect. 🛣️ See you in Mumbai, Ben!

.ens and .ethereum 🔥🔥

Ethereum security people, who’s coming to @EFDevcon? We’re building the Security Hub and it would be great to have as many of us together as possible in Mumbai. If you want to speak, join a panel, run a workshop, volunteer, or just come hang out and ask good questions, reply here.

After 7 years, The Blockchain Socialist has ended but today, its rebirth begins: All Models Are Wrong AMAW examines who controls and benefits from technological systems, and how they might be organized differently. 🧵

Digital rights festival looks like this

🫂4000 people 🔊80 speakers from @Isa to @VitalikButerin 🩷20 community partners from @torproject to @OpenObservatory ⛑️50 volunteers 🫆1 Cypherpunk Congress Joy of activism 🪷 Mumbai, 2 Nov: congress.web3privacy.info

Was thinking recently that work of 10 ppl behind @web3privacy is a pure magic. How we managed to engage hundreds of contributors, host dozen of thousands of event visitors, welcome pure legends from @xychelsea to @RogerDingledine, made raves & contribute to @torproject ecosystem campaign, populate @cbase, host raves, have fun & travel the world. There are endless people we are thankful on this journey. Pure hearts, revolutionaries & believers. Somehow they thought that we can do it. And we stayed resilient. Matured. Protected our culture. Unique & weird. Magic of life.

There has been some errr communications situation which made some of you think that @gnosispay is shutting down - THAT IS NOT TRUE! Gnosis Pay is doing better than ever - this is just a realization that Gnosis is excellent building technical infrastructure and less good at distributing that tech to consumers directly. So we pivoted from B2C to B2B2C. In other words: From December on, you won't be able to use your existing card via our web app anymore. You have to use one of the partner wallets like @getrebind, @usePicnicBR or @minipay to keep using the best and most self-custodial crypto card infra there is! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

@ethlabs_org is now 3 months old since our June 22nd announcement 🥳 thought I'd share some musings as co-founder, on culture, goals and impact, also prompted by @apriori0x in the recording we made nitter.siddz.com/apriori0x/status/20983… letssgo --- establishing an org culture starts from day one, and I think we've hit it mostly, with moderate hiring since we started that has gelled well so far. I had reflected early on on culture here nitter.siddz.com/barnabemonnot/status/2… 3 months in I would say these are the main features: - goal-driven, we're not attached to specific means, we want a clear outcome and we go after it whichever way we need to - high urgency, I wake up in the morning hungry to pick up the tickets and threads that my US frens and EU night owls have left - ai native, this is a superpower and also gives a fresh spin to a lot of work that i used to enjoy doing but wasn't doing much of anymore (data collection/analysis, code/specs). i'm not the biggest consumer either, truly amazed by the strides @fradamt is making with AI-assisted formal verification - user-centric, we're still early and can always refine our approach here, but we really want to be intentional with it. building these feedback loops is imo one of our most critical needs atm. particularly as a non-profit, it's the only way to ensure impact - working in public, it's a healthy default and imo a responsibility given the nature and mission of our org, to work on behalf of the Ethereum community for the betterment of Ethereum. we push updates weekly, putting in some work to keep them engaging and high signal. see here ethlabs.org/writings/ --- the funny thing is it feels still like we are learning about ourselves, and what we can do with this new org. some observations on what's working well from my POV: - i think it is clear that we can have strong impact on core protocol direction and development still. one example, our hegotá view, led by @casparschwa @fradamt and @adietrichs, was a labour of love and rigour, and we held ourselves to a very high standard in coming up with our rankings ethlabs.org/writings/hegota-… work on account abstraction, fast finality, fast slots, all ongoing - i think we are growing well to be a "defragmenter" between L1 and L2s, sometimes a relayer helping to signal what one needs from the other, sometimes a more involved builder bridging the gap. @decentrek's work on 8130<>8141 is strong evidence, and @ox_shaman is accelerating quickly on following up its conclusion with a broad effort to maximally defragment accounts. better integration between L1 and L2s, their liquidity and their users, remains a key work stream for us. right now we're zoomed in on blobs, their demand and their supply - i think we've been good at building connections with strong teams working on the private and public buildout of the Ethereum network, and leveraging these connections. this is starting to compound for instance on going-to-market with the fast confirmation rule or the quick slots piece ethlabs.org/writings/quick-s…, and getting signal on our directions. kudos to @_julianma and @binji_x for doing so much outreach --- but! given these capabilities, are we tackling the right goals? this is a lot of our current internal chatter: - our stated mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer for the global economy. ethereum has been unreasonably effective at attracting users and capital to its network, thanks to its unique properties. it is working, we want to make it work better, and maintain its lead + increase its footprint in the world - how can we be more principled with problem identification? we're taking it both bottom-up and top-down. some concrete work emerges organically from internal reflections and external engagement, and we also spend more time now top-down/first principles-refining our intuitions. this helps connect the dots and move up and up to bigger and bigger targets - in particular, feeling like Ethlabs can do more advocacy and work on ETH the asset, rooted in our technical work and ecosystem engagement. ETH is a big part both of the network's utility, and its reach to export the values of Ethereum. this matters. - feeling like there are big opportunities around asset issuance and tokenisation, bringing the global economy onchain, and the role of the L1 in this conversation, as critical node in the transport layer of these assets throughout the network - I like to keep moving and adjust on the fly, as action creates information. no one feels under-allocated. feeling slightly mis-allocated is probably right to keep our heads up and reflect on what is the most impactful thing we could be doing. we might not be going after the biggest fish right now, and we shouldn't be ideological about choosing our targets. it's a conversation we should keep having both internally and externally --- - last point, apart from all this, wow there is a lot of admin! we wanted to hit the ground running asap so decided to backload some of it, there's some more to get through but we're getting there. thank god for @joshrudolf --- that is all for today, back to making ethereum faster 🫡 gn

RT @mely_jpg: so once a year, the biggest payments and identity providers get together in geneva to determine the future of digital identit…

Deutsche Bank is adding ethereum:native to its new institutional custody service, alongside Bitcoin and selected stablecoins. Launching in Germany later this year, pending regulatory approvals.